Opinion category, Page 565
Letter to the editor: Disappointed by opinion on front page
Sadly, I believe the Trib has joined the ranks of most mainstream media and has abandoned the basic tenets of journalism. You obviously don’t believe your readers are intelligent enough to take the information you print and make independent judgments. I suppose you’ve succumbed to schools and colleges that no...
Letter to the editor: UPMC staffers overwhelmed
To UPMC Senior Vice President Leslie Davis and other UPMC executives: As a UPMC nurse, I am angry, disappointed, betrayed — yet not entirely surprised. UPMC leadership has been less visible this year and less in touch than ever with what occurs at the bedside. “Davis said the system has...
Letter to the editor: North Huntingdon commissioners’ callousness
Your Dec. 13 issue was filled with articles about covid-19: weekly deaths hit a high in Westmoreland County, hospitals and health care workers plead with the community to follow CDC guidelines, health care facilities at breaking point, etc. And then there was the article “North Huntingdon says ‘no’ to Wolf’s...
Pat Buchanan: Can democracy hold us together?
If America was a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split the blanket and gone our separate ways. What still holds this disputatious and divided people together? Consider. In announcing the $900 billion stimulus bill to deal with the pandemic, House Speaker Nancy...
Paul Kengor: Remembering Christmas 1945
No Christmas in American history compares to that of 75 years ago: Christmas 1945. For the first time in several painfully long years, a nation at war was a nation at peace. Germany had surrendered in May and Japan in August. World War II was finally over. “Home for Christmas!”...
Michael Carnahan: Mill 19 solar project step toward clean air — if expiring tax credit is renewed
When the switch flipped on for Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green last month, I felt a rush of gratitude for the union workers who had stood on netting hammocked between steel beams 85 feet off the ground. Slow, steady and with great skill, they’d clamped on each of the 4,968...
Letter to the editor: Lies will lead to disaster
If important actions occur because of believing lies, consequences could be devastating. To often, we take lies as fact without thinking and make stupid mistakes that are hard to correct. We need to be very careful when our country’s future is at stake. Dave Bastl Manor...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler should resign or apologize
Rep. Guy Reschenthler took an oath to abide by and defend the Constitution. I think he should resign immediately for breaking that oath: He was willing to be a party to subverting a fair election merely to keep his favored candidate in office. His support for Texas’ lawsuit is outrageous...
Letter to the editor: Proving election fraud difficult
When at the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked if we had a republic or monarchy and replied, “A republic, if you can keep it,” he probably was not thinking of election fraud. But I believe that’s exactly what happened during the recent presidential election. Hundreds of sworn affidavits possessed...
Letter to the editor: ‘Locking Down’ — a covid carol
“Locking Down” (Sung to the tune of “Silver Bells”) Empty sidewalks, vacant sidewalks dressed in pandemic style. In the air there’s a feeling of covid. Children homeschooled, Parents drinking, Meeting mask after mask. And on every street corner you hear. Shutting down, closing down, It’s lockdown time in our city....
Editorial: Learn from the 1st covid relief package
As leaders in Washington come to a new coronavirus relief plan, it would seem the old one had been exhausted. The money allotted to help people through the pandemic was long since spent, right? Wrong. While some of the most obvious chunks — such as the stimulus checks sent in...
Letter to the editor: What now for America?
We have a president who won’t admit he lost the election. President-elect Joe Biden boasted about how much he can do for the country; he needs to get his ducks in a row so after he is sworn in and can make decisions, he’ll get his rear end in gear....
Tom Purcell: A white Christmas would do us good this year
We got blanketed with 10 inches of snow last week and I loved it — because I love how snow slows us down and brings us to our senses. When it snows in Pittsburgh, people pour out into the streets. We shovel our sidewalks and driveways, invigorated by the crisp...
Editorial: The hopeful light of Scarlett’s Sunshine
Scarlett Lillian Pauley should be building snowmen and chattering about the holidays. She should be struggling with pandemic homeschooling. She should be asking a million questions. But in 2017, the Pittsburgh toddler died at just 16 months old. There was no obvious disease to blame or tragic accident to hold...
Glenn Marsch: Triumph of the vaccine — the swift rescue
In the first month or two of 2020, we had the first hint of a new, strange disease that originated in Wuhan, China. By March, we were locked down in our homes and have lived unprecedented disruptions of normal life since then. All along we have looked to science for...
Letter to the editor: On emissions, we must catch up with the EU
With the European Union agreeing to much more aggressive greenhouse gas emission reductions, 55% by 2030, the United States must quickly take similar actions or risk losing access to the second-largest economy in the world. And we really have no choice. Part of the EU “green deal” includes a border...
Jonah Goldberg: Cold War approach won’t work with China
It’s easy to miss, given how polarized our politics are, but there is a growing consensus around a very big issue: China. Foreign policy experts, military leaders and politicians across the ideological spectrum all tend to agree that a new era of confrontation with China has begun. Many on the...
Letter to the editor: Provisional vote not counted
I applied for and received a mail-in ballot as a backup to voting in person, and was comforted by the instruction language: “Surrender your absentee or mail-in ballot and envelope to the judge of elections to be voided to vote by regular ballot.” On Election Day, I took the mail-in...
Letter to the editor: UPMC nurses are overwhelmed
I am a nurse at UPMC in Pittsburgh, and I believe UPMC is misleading the public with the recent press conference (“UPMC expects to receive covid vaccine soon, distribute to health care workers after authorization”). Nurses at UPMC are overwhelmed, scared and anxious about what is to come. The statement...
Letter to the editor: Masks not stopping covid-19
I hate to be the one to burst everyone’s bubble, but masks aren’t the strategy that is going to stop the pandemic. If that were the case, the numbers of new cases would already be dwindling. Also, this isn’t the only game in town. The U.S. has lost around 40,000...
Letter to the editor: Republicans must let country move on
Earlier this month, 126 House Republicans signed on to a lawsuit that would invalidate the votes of millions of Americans, including my own and many of yours. I am floored by their malice and lack of patriotism. How dare they say my vote and the votes of my family, friends,...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Dec. 21
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Dec. 21....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Dec. 21
Editorial cartoons for the week of Dec. 21....
S.E. Cupp: Lifesaving women threatened by lowlifes
“Burn in Hell.” “Get murdered.” “We’re coming for you.” Those are just some of the messages that 69-year-old grandmother and retired teacher Joyce Warshaw received. That’s all because, as mayor of Dodge City, Kan. — a city of just over 27,000 steeped in Wild West frontier history — she eventually...
Letter to the editor: Masks wreaking havoc with hearing aids, glasses
My ears are over burdened: Eyeglasses and hearing aids have squatter’s rights, but the mask is fighting hard. When it leaves an ear, it takes hearing aid(s) and eyeglasses with it as often as it can. Lawrence E. Howard Jr. Plum...
