Opinion category, Page 464
Lori Falce: A very meta chat with Mark Zuckerberg
Oh, Mark Zuckerberg. We haven’t met, but as you own all the pictures of my son since his birth and are responsible for a healthy percentage of the threatening communications I receive winding their way to me through tags and Messenger and comments on pieces I write, I feel like...
Jane Liebschutz, Jean FitzGibbons and Mary Sligh: Much work needs to be done to prevent overdose deaths
The overdose crisis has not gone away, and overdose deaths are, once again, on the rise. Sadly, 2020 marked a grim milestone in the United States: More than 93,000 people died from accidental drug overdoses, the highest annual death toll yet. Fatal overdoses are the leading cause of injury deaths...
Letter to the editor: Rich get richer through gambling
Regarding the article “Report: Pennsylvania casino revenues top $415M in September” (Oct. 19, TribLIVE): The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, chasing a dream. Our government is evil. Legalized gambling was supposed to drastically reduce property taxes in Pennsylvania. What happened? Gambling is a terrible, addictive disease. The...
Letter to the editor: Government overreach causing societal turmoil
Those attending the Oct. 19 Greater Latrobe School Board meeting were advised that members of the board have been threatened with criminal prosecution if they had failed to enforce Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam’s current mask order. The threatening of licensing that otherwise has nothing to do with the matter...
Letter to the editor: Disinformation putting us at risk
Following the science, the research, the math — according to Johns Hopkins’ Oct. 11 Covid Mortality Analyses, not one of over 240 countries had a covid mortality rate as low 0.05%, as claimed by letter-writer George Silowash (“I don’t trust this covid vaccine,” Oct. 9, TribLIVE). Laos and Singapore were...
Editorial: Stripped down issue of independent contractors
What does a freelance worker have in common with an exotic dancer? Maybe more than than you think. This isn’t about the work itself. It’s more about how the work is viewed in a strictly business sense. The law, after all, doesn’t care about what we do per se. The...
Editorial: The high price of even higher gas taxes
High gas prices are not exactly new to Pennsylvanians, but this is ridiculous. Maybe back in September, $3.33 a gallon seemed like the highest they could get, but here we are in October with prices up to $3.50 a gallon. For those wondering, it hasn’t cost that much to fill...
Editorial: Legislature legal bills should be open
There is a time-honored, court-supported concept of privacy when it comes to dealings between a person and lawyer. It’s an idea that extends to lots of areas of the law. You are guaranteed that your conversations with counsel will be as sacred as a Catholic confessional booth whether you are...
Jonah Goldberg: To fight climate change seriously, nuclear power must be on the table
World leaders are heading to Glasgow to come up with yet another plan to tackle climate change. Joe Biden had hoped to have a stack of climate-related legislative accomplishments to brag about. But they’re being held up and threatened in the fight over the price tag of the Build Back...
Letter to the editor: What if Trump had won?
As Pennsylvania faces the potential disgrace inflicted on Arizona with Republican elected officials pushing yet additional expensive audits of the Nov. 3, 2020, vote and seeking possession of personal information about millions of the state’s voters, does anyone have any uncertainty about why this is happening? If you do, ask...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s role in high fuel prices
Paul Guggenheimer’s story ”Don’t expect to see a price break at the pump anytime soon in Western Pa.” (Oct. 22, TribLIVE) gives a lot of weak reasons for the high, and climbing, cost of fuel. Why is there no mention of the damage to our country’s economy and security caused...
Letter to the editor: Has Pelosi read Constitution?
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless secret police chief in Josef Stalin’s reign of terror, bragged that he could prove criminal conduct on anyone, even those not guilty of criminal conduct. America’s present-day Beria is Nancy Pelosi, and her proof is...
Editorial: More access means more vaccines?
Some things are just so obvious that it seems ridiculous they weren’t recognized sooner. The wheel. Fire. French fries and slaw on a corned beef sandwich. How did it take human beings so long to figure out what was right in front of them? Now there’s one in Westmoreland County....
Letter to the editor: Transparency lacking on Greensburg parklet sale
There may be very valid reasons for the City of Greensburg to have sold the parklet on Pennsylvania Avenue to City Cribs (“Greensburg officials questioned over sale of parklet,” Oct. 2, TribLIVE). However, I take issue with Suzanne Ward’s assertion that the letter-writers who had concerns about the sale were...
Pat Buchanan: Can Poland be Poland — and stay in the EU?
“Let Poland be Poland!” That was the call of American conservatives, four decades ago, when the Solidarity movement of labor leader Lech Walesa arose in the port city of Gdansk to demand their freedom of the communist system imposed upon Poland by the Soviet Union after World War II. A...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Condoleezza Rice wants to ‘move on’
Condoleezza Rice wants to move on. She concedes that what happened on Jan. 6 was “wrong.” It was, she told the hosts of “The View” last week, an “assault on law and order, and an assault on our democratic processes.” And Rice, a former national security adviser and secretary of...
Letter to the editor: Hoping for happy life for Tater Tot
How refreshing to start the morning by reading the front-page story about Tater Tot saving his owner’s life (“Nurse and quick-thinking dog lauded for lifesaving rescue at River Forest,” Oct. 12, TribLIVE), rather than the typical front-page stories about political and vaccination battles. Assuming that Tom Kissel was Tater Tot’s...
Editorial: 100 years and counting — on all of us
It used to be that a 100th birthday was almost a tall tale. Celebrating 100 years was the kind of thing that a country or a city did, not a person. A well-loved business or a landmark institution might hit that milestone, but the list of people who reached it...
Letter to the editor: More attacks on childhood sexual abuse victims
In a time when so much misinformation is presented as fact, the decision to publish Jamison Poklembo’s letter “Don’t be fooled by ‘front groups’ ” (Oct. 5, TribLIVE) is not only dangerous and irresponsible, it legitimatizes another misguided attack on already weary victims of childhood sexual abuse. The letter is riddled...
Tom Purcell: Memories of a nonpolitical Halloween
Halloween was fun while it lasted. For decades it has been the one day of the year we could all forget our worries and live in the moment. When I was a kid in the ’70s, Halloween was for kids. As the weather became chilly and the leaves turned brilliant...
Suzanne Ward: Answering questions on Greensburg parklet
Recently several letters to the editor have appeared asking questions about the sale of the parklet in downtown Greensburg, following the article “Greensburg officials questioned over sale of parklet” (Oct. 2, TribLIVE). I can’t answer the following: • Why are these individuals attacking two of four members of City Cribs,...
Letter to the editor: Kurimsky for Franklin Regional
I have known Kevin Kurimsky for nearly seven years and am proud to call him my friend. Kurimsky is a man of high character, trustworthy, diligent and responsible. He is one of the most level-headed people I have ever met. The consummate family man, Kurimsky has nearly two decades of...
Letter to the editor: Focus on the kids in Norwin
I have always been happy with my choice to move to the Norwin area, primarily for the school district. My older two have graduated, and I have one attending Norwin High School now. Every candidate can make all the promises they think will get them elected, but the fact is,...
Letter to the editor: Muñiz, Williams deserve votes in Norwin
Carrie McConnell Muñiz and Dana Barvinchak Williams are candidates for Norwin School Board. As Norwin graduates with children at Norwin, kids are their primary focus. Both have educations and experience that make them uniquely qualified to be productive school directors. They believe politics has no place on the school board....
Editorial: Tax credit is low price for firefighters
How much is your life worth? Is it worth as much as your neighbors’ house? Their car? Their kids? Is it worth coming between a downed power line and a child on a bike? Is it worth the difference between a kitchen grease fire and the smoking ruin of a...
