Opinion category, Page 398
Editorial: Inflation hitting government always hits taxpayers
Inflation is sending prices through the roof, from making breakfast and cleaning your house to buying a car and renting an apartment. All of them are not only up but also continuing to climb. Restaurants are marking more menu items as “market price” because of the rapid fluctuation, elevating a...
Letter to the editor: God bless the Ukrainians
Letter-writer Kathleen Bollinger (“More to the story on Ukraine”) has a point that liberal media is one-sided and that Russia and Ukraine have been fighting since 2014, but that is all. Russians are not bad people, but they endure repression of religion, free speech and the truth. Now we have...
Gary Franks: Supreme Court should leave college admissions alone — for the Good of America
As the world shifts its focus toward mourning the victims of senseless violence directed at racial and religious minorities, we should recognize that the Supreme Court actually has an opportunity to show the world where America really stands on racial diversity and race relations. The Supreme Court has held numerous...
Peter Morici: Biden needs some Republicans for his foreign policy team
Since World War II, U.S. foreign policy has promoted human rights and democracy by maintaining a superior military, offering security commitments to friends in Europe and Asia, and promoting free trade and investment among Western and nonaligned nations. Through the World Trade Organization and regional agreements, the latter policy encouraged...
Darwyyn Deyo and Conor Norris: Pa. should make covid-19 licensing waivers permanent
In response to the emergence of the covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf enacted numerous waivers for unnecessary regulations to ensure Pennsylvanians had access to health care. These were extended several times, but they are once again set to expire. Sadly, many Pennsylvanians lacked access to health care...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Poor white people
Come and let us pity white people. They are the real victims here. That, in essence, is the battle cry that’s powered much of American politics for the last 30 years, the last 15 in particular. It has echoed from the halls of government to the set of Fox “News”...
Letter to the editor: Inflation is good for the state
I don’t hear governors speaking out against inflation, I think because, when items cost more, the more sales tax the state collects. Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Letter to the editor: We must learn history to continue journey to equality
I’m still not sure what the bugaboo words “critical race theory” mean that people seem to be so afraid of. But we do need to teach true American history, even if it is painful. Slavery, lynchings, segregation, Jim Crow laws, red-lining, the Tulsa race massacre (and others), the Scottsboro boys...
Lori Falce: Diagramming, commas and politics
You know how in school there are things you learn that seem utterly pointless and with no impact on your real life? Like how most people will never need to know anything about the Battle of Hastings. Or how most adults will agree they never used a quadratic equation after...
Letter to the editor: Jesus never preached about abortion
Anyone remember Bizarro World Superman who did everything opposite from the real Superman? Republicans apparently believe in a Bizarro Jesus who harps on abortion as the central issue of Christianity and condemns people for being “woke” — that is, recognizing and working to right civil inequity. In the actual Gospels,...
Letter to the editor: Keep Pa.’s primary as is
I have two issues. The first issue is that the primary election’s job is to select a party’s candidate for the general election. This is solely the prerogative of those in that party’s body of voters. This is not for nonparty voters to decide, or, for that matter, have any...
Laurels & lances: Primary election edition
Laurel: To the voters. The discrepancy in voter turnout for a primary versus a general election is often decried. So is the differences in the lines at the polls in a presidential year as opposed to the other three years in the cycle. Heck, we pointed out just that in...
Michael Torres: The second coming of Trump in Pa.?
Despite facing rivals who outspent him by well over $20 million and a whirlwind of negative media, state Sen. Doug Mastriano has won the Republican nomination for governor in Pennsylvania. His ascension can be largely credited to an undercurrent of grassroots supporters who act and vote as though they’ve found...
Viewpoint 3: To avoid the next infant formula crisis, make food safety a priority
The Food and Drug Administration has reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories to resume production at the company’s Sturgis, Mich., facility. The announcement gives hope of relief for the three-fourths of American parents who rely on infant formula and have struggled to find the product in recent weeks. But the...
Jonah Goldberg: Trump’s goal is to solidify control over the GOP, not help it win elections
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said something interesting while campaigning for Dave McCormick, still in the running for the GOP nomination to replace departing Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. “Just once, I’d love to see a Republican candidate stand up in a primary and say: ‘I am a moderate, establishment...
Letter to the editor: We need thoughtful leaders, less guns
The hatred and intolerance in this country, very intentionally built over the past several decades, is going to take sustained effort from thoughtful, conscientious leaders to tear down. Unfortunately, our broken political system reduces the electability of thoughtful, conscientious people more with every cycle. But until we stop flooding the...
Letter to the editor: Grateful for in-person Race for Grace
For three years, we had waited for the moment to physically gather together and collectively raise both money for and awareness of pediatric brain cancer. On April 9, at the 14th annual Race for Grace, that moment finally came to fruition with 1,564 registrants, 300 volunteers and hundreds of spectators...
Editorial: Understanding intimate partner violence is team effort
Hate crimes are different from other crimes because they have an impact more broad than on just the intended victim. They are a form of terrorism that is hard to address with other anti-criminal actions. That is why the U.S. Department of Justice addresses them. But while hate-motivated attacks are...
Letter to the editor: Repercussions of 2005 scheme
In Pennsylvania, we are approaching a date that should live in infamy and responsibility given. We the people are living through difficult times, dealing with inflation, gas prices and supply chain issues. The hope for positive changes in the near future is dim. The meddling of the Federal Reserve and...
John Stossel: Pumping up gas prices
The price of gas keeps rising. “The reason for that is because of Putin’s war,” said President Biden. But that’s impossible. Most of the price rise came before Putin attacked Ukraine. So some politicians simply blame “corporate greed.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse accuses the oil industry of collecting “excess profit.” Sen....
Letter to the editor: Ceding our rights
The Biden administration has proposed amendments that will be presented at the May 22-28 meeting of the World Health Organization that, if adopted, will give WHO authority over United States’ medical sovereignty. I believe the aim of the WHO is to continue pushing the pandemic through 2030. What this probably...
Letter to the editor: Preserve women’s sports
“Follow the science.” Isn’t that what we constantly hear when it comes to mandates and policies concerning covid-19? Yet when it comes to transgender athletes participating in women’s sports, there is often silence on science. So let’s follow that science and common sense. There are too many biological differences —...
Editorial: Confidentiality agreements are counter to transparency
In a lot of ways, a government agency and a corporation are similar. They are arranged in hierarchies. They have people making decisions on behalf of the organization. They can be legally bound to do certain jobs. They both live and die by mountains of paperwork and legal agreements. But...
Letter to the editor: Bail a complicated issue
I take issue with the article “Cash bail system reform being explored in Pennsylvania” (May 1, TribLIVE). According to the Pennsylvania Bulletin, “The goal of the bail determination procedures is for the least number of people being detained … to reasonably ensure appearance for court and the safety of the...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: It’s different when it’s your home
It’s different when it’s your home. I speak from experience. For 46 years, I’ve made my living by expressing my opinions. And an opinion — at least when it’s on a matter of substance — is by definition a divisive thing. That’s why social etiquette requires that you steer clear...
