Opinion category, Page 542
Letter to the editor: Why are people still afraid of Trump?
With a smile I read the long essays in the Tribune-Review. Did someone forget to tell you that Donald Trump is no longer president? He can’t do anything, but you keep writing about him and how awful he is. What are you afraid of? The Republicans no longer control Congress,...
Letter to the editor: Love letter to new gun owners
The past few years have been quite a roller coaster for all of us. We’ve had a pandemic, tumultuous elections, riots of all shapes and sizes, and in the cases of some of us, an assault on our very livelihoods. I’m sure you new gun owners have various views and...
John Stossel: Environmental groups not helping the rhinos
Today’s environmental activists are so hostile to capitalism that they end up killing animals they want to protect. Like the African rhinoceros. Poachers kill them to get their horns, which can sell for as much as $300,000. Poachers mostly sell in China and Vietnam, to people who carve them into...
Mona Charen: Both sides need to cancel cancel culture
The term “cancel culture” is rapidly losing its meaning. Just as Donald Trump adopted the term “fake news,” which originally referred to the misinformation flow that was a crucial part of his 2016 campaign, and was used to disparage his opponents and critics (or even just factual reporters) in the...
Chris Baxter: Why Spotlight PA is spending a year investigating Pennsylvania’s redistricting process
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and WITF Public Media. In 2021, a handful of politicians will wield power over one of the most consequential and overlooked aspects of our democracy: redrawing Pennsylvania’s political districts. They can...
Letter to the editor: We’ll need $15/hour to buy Big Macs
Gov. Tom Wolf and President Biden want to raise the miniumum wage to $15 an hour. Heads-up: Get ready for the $10 Big Mac, served to you by a robot. Just sayin’. Joseph F. Marmo Cheswick...
Letter to the editor: Thanks to GOP senators who did right thing
To the Republican senators, We all watched and listened during the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump. I believe the evidence was quite clear that Trump incited the riot that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6. You Republican senators who voted to acquit have failed to live...
Letter to the editor: We need a president with a ‘Robin Hood’ agenda
I am looking for a 2024 candidate for U.S. president who will run on a “Robin Hood” agenda that is similar to Huey Long’s “Share the Wealth” agenda. The platform/agenda would include a one-time “national wealth tax” of 20% on all individuals who have a net wealth and net worth...
Letter to the editor: Let’s not forget beautiful AK memories
The changing of the times in the Alle-Kiski area has been surreal, with many memories that are golden but not forgotten. Shopping has changed from the hustle and bustle of the small-town “downtown days.” As a child, making our family trip to the Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney stores in...
Lori Falce: Weather or not, here it comes
Unpredictable as the weather. It’s a phrase used often, a kind of mild indictment of meteorologists everywhere. It tells us that nothing is really predictable. Just like the clouds and the rain, anything on the horizon can be blown off course by a little wind or melted away by a...
Letter to the editor: Maybe less is more when salting roads
It seems as though every winter if there is more than a few inches of snow, we run into a salt shortage in North Huntingdon (“North Huntingdon running low on road salt; back order never filled,” Feb. 17, TribLIVE). At a cost of $15,000 per layer and most likely overtime...
Letter to the editor: Democrats no longer for working class
I feel that today’s Democratic Party is no longer the party of the working class like it used to be. Now it seems to be the party of the rich, which includes big tech, Wall Street and celebrities. It also includes government employees, mainstream media and certain “identity” groups. I...
Laurels & lances: Parades, pranks and play
Laurel: To the pluck of the Irish. Doesn’t it seem like forever since there has been any kind of real community celebration? For a year, those simple gatherings that bring people together have fallen like dominoes in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. But lockdowns aren’t going to stop Lower...
S.E. Cupp: GOP knows exactly where it’s headed
It’s that time of year again. This week, CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Conference founded in 1974 — will lay siege to Orlando instead of Washington, D.C., amid a global pandemic that has, as of this week, taken a staggering 500,000 American lives. Hopes of mask-wearing and social distancing...
Editorial: Standardized tests in a pandemic school year are folly
Every year, Pennsylvania kids face a battery of tests meant to determine just how well they have been educated in a variety of topics. All of the students from third grade through eighth grade take annual exams in math. They are tested on their reading comprehension and their writing skills....
Letter to the editor: Government just makes bigger mess
With regard to the mess the federal and state governments have made with regard to covid-19 vaccinations, lockdowns, closures and the rest: One great man said it best — “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help” (Ronald Reagan)....
Letter to the editor: Over 80 and still searching for vaccine
My friends and I, the way-over-80 crowd and some of us with preexisting conditions, sit at our computers for hours on end hoping to be lucky enough to score a precious appointment to enable us to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The times we’re not trying to get an elusive...
Letter to the editor: Advice to eliminate pain from covid vaccine
Some folks are experiencing a lot of pain and discomfort in their arm from their covid-19 vaccine injections, especially needle No. 2. One technique that should help those who have yet to get a covid shot is to move the arm around immediately following the injection — swinging in circles,...
Letter to the editor: Still waiting for ballot
It’s hard to believe Westmoreland County will probably pay Midwest Direct for ballots that never appeared in voters’ mailboxes — and may give them another chance. They weren’t delayed — they never arrived! Either Midwest Direct said they mailed them without doing so, or they disappeared from U.S. Postal Service...
Letter to the editor: No more money for public schools
Here we go again with Gov. Tom Wolf’s rhetoric on more funding for public schools. Test scores prove that throwing more money at schools does nothing to improve our children’s education. Teachers unions are the problem. They strike often and mostly for the same two reasons: more money and more...
Jonah Goldberg: ‘Return to normalcy’ isn’t really what Biden’s base wants
Joe Biden ran for president on a “return to normalcy.” His challenge is that there are three competing definitions of normalcy for him to contend with. Biden didn’t actually use the slogan “return to normalcy.” But as numerous political observers (including yours truly) noted during the campaign, that was both...
Letter to the editor: Teachers unions draining us, especially the elderly
So Gov. Tom Wolf wants to tax us some more so he can give money to public schools . No problem … as long as it goes to the schools and not the teachers. We would all be so much better off without the teachers union. I’m done paying for...
Letter to the editor: Trump no patriot
For those who only watch and listen to extreme right-wing news sources, I hope the impeachment hearings were their come-to-Jesus moment. The United States has been led by a crackpot, not a patriot the last four years. President Trump’s words, threats and continued rhetoric to gather the gullible conspiracists toward...
Editorial: Let the Penguins grow safely to 25% capacity
A hockey game is an attempt to control chaos. It is all about advancing toward a goal while sliding on an uncertain surface, balanced on the edge of a blade. Being slammed out of the blue by an unexpected blow that throws everything off course. Sounds like a description of...
Letter to the editor: Our national insanity
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently released a book touting his exemplary leadership during the pandemic and received an Emmy award for his viral press conferences; Hunter Biden plans to put out a memoir titled “Beautiful Things”; Black Lives Matter was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; and Joe Biden...
