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Sheldon Jacobson: NCAA covid-19 policy demands selective reseeding for March Madness
The NCAA announced policies designed to keep March Madness on track for a safe and successful tournament. These policies include holding all 68 games in the Indianapolis area and limiting the number of people in each venue to 25% of its capacity. These restrictions will serve to limit the spread...
Editorial: The Diocese of Greensburg, 70 years young
On March 10, 1951, Pope Pius XII created the Diocese of Greensburg. If a parish is the spiritual house of a Catholic, a diocese is a kind of religious municipality. It is the governmental unit of the Catholic Church — larger than a city, smaller than a state. Greensburg is...
Letter to the editor: No need to criticize Texas for mask policies
Why are folks “ragging” on Texas concerning its mask policies? There are 16 states that do not have mask mandates and are opened up. Check your facts: Pennsylvania had 190 deaths per 100,000 people and Texas had 156 deaths per 100,000 people — that should tell you something. If you...
Letter to the editor: Do your own research on RGGI
Marc Mondor’s letter “RGGI will allow Pa. to be globally competitive” (Jan. 30, TribLIVE), promoting the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which is a tax on power generation in its most basic form, is a ruse in its most basic form. With his imploring of Pennsylvania to join the RGGI, he...
Letter to the editor: Limbaugh’s dangerous propaganda
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida opened the recent Conservative Policital Action Conference with praise for the recently deceased Rush Limbaugh and lamented that Republicans would now enter “battles ahead … without one of our greatest field generals.” DeSantis was right to talk about Limbaugh’s role in terms of combat. He...
Letter to the editor: Struggling to find vaccines
Both of my parents are in their 80s, and my sister and I have struggled daily to get them covid-19 vaccinated. They live in Westmoreland County, which, according to the state map of vaccine locations, has 10 times fewer sites than Allegheny County. Also, this antiquated system of having to...
Pat Buchanan: The emerging existential crisis at the border
During a Democratic debate in 2020, the candidates were asked if their health care plans would cover “undocumented immigrants.” Each raised his or her hand, including front-runner Joe Biden. From that stage, the message went forth: If the Democrats win this election, then it is amnesty for all and open...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Dr. Seuss has not been ‘canceled’
No, Dr. Seuss hasn’t been “canceled.” Granted, you’d never know it from the ruckus that erupted after Theodor Seuss Geisel’s estate decided to stop publishing six lesser-known titles by the celebrated children’s book author because they contained offensive racial stereotypes. We’re talking Asians with “their eyes at a slant” and...
Ashley Lynn Priore: A chess strategy may help unify Pa.
I’m a proud Pittsburgher. How could I not be? I was born and raised in the Steel City and attended the University of Pittsburgh down the street from my home. In 2014, I founded a nonprofit organization, Queen’s Gambit Chess Institute. I have taught chess in Pittsburgh’s nine districts ever...
Josh Fleitman: We must vaccinate against the gun violence epidemic, too
A sleeping infant struck and killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight in Spring Hill. An elementary school teacher slain in her Westmoreland County home when someone shot into the incorrect house in retaliation over a drug deal gone wrong. A young, Black man, cornerback on his Catholic high...
Letter to the editor: Benz’s ‘Miracle’ piece excellent
All of the Trib’s sports reporters are very good at their jobs, but the recent Tim Benz column “Will America ever allow itself to have another ‘Miracle’?” (Feb. 24, TribLIVE) was simply outstanding. Very thought-provoking. Well-reasoned. Excellently conveyed. Benz and Jason Gay of The Wall Street Journal are two of...
Editorial: When local live music restarts, be there to applaud
Music that reflects the life and love and pain of its people has been a part of Southwestern Pennsylvania from its earliest days. It is the fifes and drums of early settlements and the old standards of Stephen Foster. It is the doo-wop of the Del Vikings, the urbane jazz...
Letter to the editor: Kudos to Allegheny Health Network, Allegheny Valley Hospital
This is a “tip of the hat” to Allegheny Health Network and more specifically to Allegheny Valley Hospital for their incredibly well-organized vaccination events. I’ve had the pleasure of taking several people to AVH for their covid-19 vaccinations, and I’m here to tell you, they ran so smoothly, and we...
Letter to the editor: Trump put America first
To all you folks who suffer from Trump derangement syndrome (TDS): I know you keep clamoring on about the evils of Donald J. Trump, I guess partly because you have nothing to brag about with the current do-nothing, same-old status quo administration. And you won’t for four years. I’m not...
Letter to the editor: Crimes among Trump associates
In addition to President Trump, there may be others who may have committed crimes or malfeasance, or at least acted unethically, while a member of his administration and should continue to be under investigators’ microscope. If any activity is deemed to be malfeasance or corruption, but not a crime, and...
Letter to the editor: Urge reps to support gun background check bill
Please encourage your federal representative to support House Resolution 8 this week in the U.S. House. HR 8 will close the background check loophole that allows gun buyers to bypass FBI background checks on firearm purchases not completed through a licensed dealer — including many transactions completed at gun shows....
Tom Purcell: Nuance better than canceling in these Looney times
Is the world finally coming to grips with the wrongs I endured as a child growing up in the 1970s? I came of age before 24-hour cable news channels sensationalized childhood abductions and made every parent in America terrified their kid was likely to become the next victim. We ’70s...
Samir Lakhani: Hygiene is a human right, not a luxury
A lot of my friends have joked: “It feels like all I did in 2020 was wash my hands!” All humor aside, it’s my hope that hand hygiene and washing has been reinvigorated and widely adopted as a primary defense against illness in this country. As I noted in my...
Letter to the editor: Why aren’t mask guidelines being enforced?
So I must be missing something. While school districts are struggling to get students back into schools, I’m seeing pictures in the Trib of athletes either with no masks or wearing them down around their necks. Have I missed a new state guideline? Jeanne Snyder Irwin...
Letter to the editor: Are we not in a free country any more?
All my life I thought we lived in the land of the free — not. How can you call this a free country when we’re told what flags we can fly, what language we can use, what statues we can let stand and what we can name our streets, parks,...
Letter to the editor: Retail workers, not teachers, should get vaccines
How disgusting, but not surprising, that teachers are jumping the line to get covid vaccinations. The deceptive rationale that our kiss-up governor is using is that the teachers will only be given the newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Why isn’t this vaccine being given to those who are more...
Editorial: Women military veterans have earned special recognition
March is Women’s History Month, which often means things that call attention to women and their contributions might be put in the spotlight for four short weeks — and then forgotten. A new Pennsylvania effort will keep women in the high beams for the whole year. The Pennsylvania Department of...
Letter to the editor: Nastiness and lies in politics
I am amazed at the amount of nastiness and vindictiveness in politics. The politicians are supposed to work together and compromise and come up with ideas to make America better for the people who elected them. Instead, they just fight with each other over power. The television media seems to...
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland leaders failing us
If you qualify under Phase 1A for getting a covid-19 vaccination and are not a health care worker, you likely have been trying frantically to find a vaccination appointment. This can be especially frustrating for those over 75 years of age or 65 with high-risk factors, having spent the last...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 8
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 8....
