Opinion category, Page 508
Letter to the editor: Officer Brian Shaw is not forgotten
Regarding Sharon McKnight’s letter “Why no tributes to Officer Brian Shaw?” (May 27, TribLIVE): I suppose you have missed, or passed on going to, the motorcycle memorial rides for Shaw? Hundreds of bikers attend, and they are covered by this newspaper. He is not forgotten. Ken Murdy Buffalo Township...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s reading, writing and arithmetic
While he is “reading” the teleprompter, does President Biden have any idea that numerous crimes, such as the gang rape of a little girl that was so violent that her screams destroyed her vocal cords, occur regularly at “his” border? Also, while his apparent irresponsibility somehow gets impunity, does he...
Letter to the editor: Franklin Regional hearing not so public
On May 24, the Franklin Regional School District held a public hearing on the future of the empty Heritage and Newlonsburg elementary schools. It was a public hearing, but the public wasn’t allowed to attend. Residents could submit a 500-word comment to the board secretary, which was placed in the...
Lori Falce: Pirates owe taxpayers better baseball
When it comes to sports, I am a product of my environment. My soul has fed on the Steelers’ Super Bowl wins and the Penguins’ names etched on the Stanley Cup. Even when they missed the playoffs or if it was charitably described as a “rebuilding year,” the faith is...
Letter to the editor: Thoughts on UPMC CEO’s high pay
Three separate but related thoughts came to mind as I read the article “IRS records: UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff made $9.5M in 2019; pay tops $1M for 32 employees” (May 14, TribLIVE). The first was our growing income inequality and the damage it does to our society. Executive compensation of...
Letter to the editor: Pa. must fund long-term care
As a community, we are all trying to recover from the covid-19 pandemic. We’ve seen the profound effect of this virus, especially among those in the long-term care continuum. Covid-19 is still present. Its impact has not subsided. And no matter the preventive measures prescribed by our state and federal...
Letter to the editor: Country needs more centrists
As a senior citizen who has become “invisible” to most political people who are under the age of 50, I believe our country needs to have more political “moderates” and “centrists” than we do now. I think we were better off in the 1960s when about 20% to 30% of...
Letter to the editor: Investing abroad makes for more stable world
With the U.S. economy struck hard by covid-19, you may think an easy budget cut would be the international affairs budget, but I urge you to reconsider. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said, “By building new markets overseas for American products, the international affairs budget creates jobs and...
Editorial: Vaccine incentives aren’t the Pennsylvania way (right?)
Hey, where is our big money jackpot? Promising giant paydays as a possibility for coronavirus vaccination is the kind of thing that is attracting attention in some states. Ohio recently made Abbigail Bugenske, 22, of Silverton the first vaccination recipient turned millionaire in the state’s Vax-a-Million lottery. Teen winner Joseph...
Letter to the editor: Stopping an ungodly agenda
The lies, deception and corruption occurring in America today are of biblical proportions. The assault on our psychological, intellectual, physical and spiritual existence is vicious and relentless. We are in the fight of our lives against the powers of darkness. History proves that in this fiercely competitive and corrupt world,...
Jonah Goldberg: Populism at root of right wing’s conspiracy-mongering paranoia
Over Memorial Day weekend, Michael Flynn, who briefly served as Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, appeared at a QAnon-affiliated conference in Dallas. During a Q&A session, an audience member asked, “I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here.” What happened in Myanmar was an old-fashioned...
Letter to the editor: Paying our fair share
Every time I open the newspaper, I see two comments: First, I am not paying my “fair share” of my money to the government, and the government is going to make greedy corporations pay more taxes, not the average citizen. To the first point, what gives the government the right...
Letter to the editor: Equal time to treat Biden as Trump was treated
Equal time — that’s all I want. For the past four years, I listened to President Trump being called vicious names by Democrats, i.e., racist, Russian spy, many swear words, neanderthal, one who will lead us to war. Democrats made fun of him because he nearly slipped while walking down...
Editorial: A bipartisan effort to secure Purple Heart valor
Courage is the kind of thing anyone can have. Grab the moment. Seize the day. But valor is different. Valor is a special kind of bravery. Valor speaks to courage under fire. It is about acts of duty and grit in combat, and it often comes with consequences. Valor is...
Letter to the editor: Another route of political decay
For the Allegheny Valley prodigal son, whose visit was marred by exposure to Trump signs (“Loyalty to Trump has gotten Allegheny Valley nowhere,” April 8, TribLIVE), might I suggest a different route? How about traversing the Democratic Grand Canyon of money pits along the East Coast, where nary a Trump...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Insidious wounds of veterans’ souls
It’s not every day you interview someone who tells you he wants to kill himself. He was a Vietnam veteran named Greg, a man with haunted eyes and a soft voice filled with the horror of his experience in Southeast Asia: the jungle rot, the lost friends, the children rigged...
Pat Buchanan: Does our diversity portend disintegration?
After nine people were shot to death May 26 by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke for many. “What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is...
Letter to the editor: Safer with Trump in office
Donald Trump is being blamed for the Jan. 6 “riots” at the U.S. Capitol. Let’s do a fact-check on Joe Biden. Since taking office, the U.S. has seen a huge spike in homicides and mass shootings, as well as police officers struck by gunfire. I believe this is because of...
Letter to the editor: Stunning musical performances at Highlands
It’s the end of the school year, and the various musical, choral and stage productions at Highlands High School have been wrapping up. The results have been stunning, especially given the constraints of the pandemic. The school’s concert band, stage band and jazz ensemble delivered jaw-dropping performances akin to college-level...
Letter to the editor: Time for peace in our country
With the presidential election finally over, I had hoped we were past the lies, name-calling, spreading of hate and other anti- and un-American activities that have been used to attack each other, our Constitution, our justice system and our very lives, as the country has been thrust toward a civil...
Editorial: Be a caretaker for Pennsylvania parks
If you are planning on spending part of your summer camping at Keystone State Park or kayaking at Ohiopyle, you aren’t alone. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation of Natural Resources issued an overcrowding alert for the Memorial Day weekend, warning visitors that 14 of the 121 state parks including the...
Tom Purcell: The end of the handshake?
After more than a year of strict covid mandates, our state has triumphantly reopened. But, we better think twice before we offer a celebratory handshake. On Memorial Day, Pennsylvania began allowing restaurants, stores, sporting events, schools and other organizations to once again operate at 100% capacity. However, some are telling...
Jonah Goldberg: Anti-Trump sentiment fueled premature dismissal of Wuhan lab theory
A remarkable consensus has emerged in the last few weeks: It’s no longer crazy to think that the covid-19 pandemic was the result of a “lab leak” in Wuhan, China. Just to set the stage, the lab-leak theory isn’t that China deliberately unleashed the virus as some sort of biological...
Letter to the editor: We must love one another, regardless of color
We observe Memorial Day in remembrance of the lives laid down to secure our freedom. Religion and speech are the first two freedoms enshrined in our Bill of Rights. It is proper to emphasize then, that they are not from the hand of government but from the God who makes...
Letter to the editor: Who’s spewing mindless diatribe?
Letter-writer Bob McBride (“Useful idiots of Democratic Party”) argues that those of us who are Democrats apparently have some kind of hive mind where we glean our information from such “socialist” sources as CNN, thus making us incapable of independent thought and action. He also makes disturbing accusations that we...
