Opinion category, Page 440
Letter to the editor: Manchin, Cheney should lead third party
After reading Ramesh Ponnaru’s op-ed “Democrats should blame themselves, not Joe Manchin” (Dec. 21, TribLIVE), I definitely feel that we need a third party. At least Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, has enough guts and grit to stand up to the progressives, who I think are really socialists,...
Letter to the editor: Biden forcing independent to switch to Republican
I have always been a political independent. The only time I changed was in 2008 when I petitioned the county to change my registration to Democrat so I could vote against Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Taxsylvania presidential primary. Didn’t help … she won. I contacted them about 10 days...
Editorial: Supreme Court ruling could make hospital, nursing home jobs harder
Hospitals and other medical facilities have been struggling under the weight of competing crises during the coronavirus pandemic. On one hand, there is the need to help the patients. Pennsylvania’s numbers are on an upswing as the state, like the rest of the country, tries to handle the spread of...
Letter to the editor: Senator aligns with wrong side
Pennsylvania state Sen. John Yudichak was a bit disingenuous in his op-ed “America’s energy future depends on Pa.” (Dec. 5, TribLIVE). He states, “During the last decade, natural gas production in Pennsylvania has helped reduce CO2 emissions in the United States by 758 million metric tons — more than any country...
S.E. Cupp: The Bob Saget I remember
The year was 2005, and I was a 20-something living in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. As such, feeling hip and somewhat subversive, my friends and I looked for hip and somewhat subversive things to do. (Key word: somewhat. We all had real jobs.) When we’d heard that...
John Stossel: Parents should care about CRT
Glenn Youngkin recently was elected Virginia’s governor partly because he promised to ban teaching of CRT. CRT stands for critical race theory, which argues that every American institution upholds white supremacy. Before Youngkin’s surprise victory, the media mocked him for complaining about CRT. NBC’s Nicolle Wallace said it isn’t even...
Leonard Pitts Jr: Sidney Poitier — he was the only one we had
These days, we have Denzel Washington. We have Viola Davis, Kevin Hart and Jamie Foxx. We have Octavia Spencer, Regina King and Samuel L. Jackson. We have Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Taraji P. Henson, Michael B. Jordan, Mahershala Ali, Tiffany Haddish and Will Smith. We have, in other words, a...
Letter to the editor: Wrong things to do as president
What could I do if I were the commander in chief to decrease the national security of the United States and make it easier for our enemies to attack us and our allies? • Politicize the FBI • Politicize the DOJ • Open the border • Have Border Patrol babysit...
Letter to the editor: Leaders don’t seem to care about taxpayers
I reacted with dismay when I read Sam Demarco’s op-ed “Pittsburgh Public Schools tax increase was not necessary” (Jan. 3, TribLIVE). Why would the Pittsburgh Public Schools Board raise taxes on Pittsburgh taxpayers in order to make up a $5.3 million budget shortfall when the board holds $145 million in...
Lori Falce: Yes, your kid should watch the news at school
Should middle school kids be watching CNN in school? It’s a discussion a board member at Norwin School District wants to consider. CNN 10 isn’t the same round-the-clock programming that runs on your cable stations. It is a 10-minute program offering students bite-sized chunks of stories for kid consumption. Four...
Letter to the editor: Democracy is being threatened
Thomas Wagner writes a curious letter (“Baseless claims.”) I found his syntax rather confusing, but he seems to be complaining that election fraud is not adequately being illuminated in the media. And yet his letter was only two sentences — he had plenty of space to be specific about this...
Gary Franks: Biden’s Jim Crow 2.0 remarks are the worst hyperbole to date
President Biden’s claim that being against the Democrats’ version of voting rights in 2022 is equivalent to being for Jim Crow 2.0 gives hyperbole a bad name. In the 19th century, most southern states had a majority or near-majority Black population because of slavery. To prevent this majority from politically...
Laurels & lances: Christmas, permit and reports
Laurel: To a second chance. Christmas didn’t come just once for Isaiah Olson this year. The Norvelt 6-year-old and his family lost their home on Jan. 5 to a house fire that claimed the life of his great-aunt, Alisa J. Richwine, 62. That’s a lot to disappear in a traumatic...
Letter to the editor: Decade of despair ahead for Steelers
Tim Benz wrote about life after Big Ben (“Appreciating Ben Roethlisberger’s career, and grasping the massive task of replacing him.”) But he and the rest of the local media don’t know the half of it yet. Because now the team faces a unique situation they never have before: They are...
Letter to the editor: Praise for mainstream media coverage of Jan. 6
Regarding the faux outrage and divisive editorial cartoon “Mallard Fillmore” in the Tribune-Review: I would like to comment on the Jan. 3 cartoon decrying the mainstream media’s potential failure to cover violence against law enforcement. I will start by saying I pray for the families and mourn the loss of...
Editorial: If schools want parents to decide about masks, how do they enforce that?
Let the schools decide, people said. When the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the state Department of Education and Gov. Tom Wolf called for masks to protect from covid-19, there was protest from some parents and community members. This shouldn’t be a state decision. It shouldn’t be an edict from on...
Letter to the editor: Republicans’ plans
In her letter, “Republicans are not planning for our well-being”, Patty Satalia said, “The Republican Party has no plan.” The Republicans have a commonsense plan. It is to: • Patrol the border, build a wall and keep asylum-seekers in Mexico, not let in over 1.5 million illegal immigrants. • Combat...
Meg Snead: Investments in human services industries are an investment in our future
For many Pennsylvanians, the people I call our caring workforce that make up the fabric of our social safety net give us the freedom to do our jobs and provide for our families. For those of us with young children, we depend on our early childhood education providers to keep...
Letter to the editor: Cheneys only Republicans to mark Jan. 6
So I see that Dick Cheney, one of the most hardnosed, diehard members of the Republican Party, has stated that the party is not what is was in the past. He also stated how important it is to recognize the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack. Sadly, Rep. Liz Cheney...
Letter to the editor: John Peck’s loss due to opponent’s negative campaign
I don’t think Westmoreland County’s former District Attorney John Peck’s behavior had anything to do with his election loss to Nicole Ziccarelli (“Could John Peck’s behavior be factor in his loss?,” Jan. 1, TribLIVE). I believe his loss was a combination of her repeated anti-Democratic rhetoric, personal attacks and allegations...
Editorial: PennDOT should have shined a light on traffic signal
Red lights mean stop. Green lights mean go. Yellow lights mean be careful. Use caution. Slow down. Yield. It is probably the one part of learning to drive that no one really needed to learn. It’s a message that we have been taught forever. It’s a shorthand used for diets...
Letter to the editor: Differing views of Jan. 6
I have read many fervent commentaries concerning the infamous Jan. 6 events. The notion that it was an insurrection with the intent to overthrow the U.S. government is laughable. The small percentage of people in attendance who committed violence or entered the Capitol building should absolutely be held accountable. The...
Jonah Goldberg: Just meeting with Putin is a concession — U.S. should be wary of giving more
On Monday, Russian president-for-life Vladimir Putin explained that the “peacekeeper” paratroopers he sent to Kazakhstan to help quash civil unrest were part of his larger policy of preventing “color revolutions” in former Soviet-bloc countries. Putin made his remarks at a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which the New...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘What kind of nation are we going to be?’
Cathartic. That’s what it was. Page through the whole dictionary looking for a better word to describe President Biden’s speech on the first anniversary of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and you will not find one. The address, delivered from Statuary Hall, which so memorably was besieged one...
Cal Thomas: Competition and choice needed in education
For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the omicron variant as their excuse. To many, this is seen as nothing more than a teachers’ strike and power grab executed by a union that historically...
