Opinion category, Page 569
Letter to the editor: Where were calls for togetherness during Trump’s term?
Regarding Joseph Sabino Mistick’s column “Now it’s time to come back together” (Nov. 15, TribLIVE): In the past four years, every word he has written about President Trump was dripping with hatred. He wouldn’t have given him a break if his life depended on it. Well, what do you know,...
Letter to the editor: Covid vaccine must be people’s vaccine
A safe, effective and accessible covid-19 vaccine can help bring an end to today’s economic and health crisis — so our families are safe, so we can get back to work and live our lives again. But only if everyone has access to it. Despite largely being funded by public...
Lori Falce: The point of giving is handing over your best
The box sat in the entry of the school like something someone had started to fill and then forgotten. It was big — about the size of a refrigerator but half as tall. Inside, it was scattered with various boxes, bags and cans. There were a few brightly colored rectangles...
Letter to the editor: Mueller investigation, impeachment not ‘hoaxes’
In her letter “Republicans don’t need to ‘get over it’ ” (Dec. 3, TribLIVE), Suzanne Wehrli calls the Mueller investigation and impeachment hoaxes, as do many President Trump supporters, who try to justify what Trump is doing now. It is disturbing to me to read this blatant untruth. The Mueller...
Paul Kengor: Truth and the 2020 presidential vote
“Where has the truth gone?” asks my Grove City College colleague Jim Thrasher. “Truth and reality, have they gone away? Most journalists in the media seem to ignore the facts and create and advance myths and fables. They have become propaganda machines.” And yet, notes Thrasher: “God-given truth has not...
Laurels & lances: Corks for a cause, bad behavior over masks
Laurel: To passing along good cheer. While working under pandemic restrictions this year, a lot of people have turned to hobbies and crafts. For 16-year-old Noah Long and his mom, Wendy, of West Deer, one outlet has been turning wine corks into Christmas tree ornaments. There’s so much about this...
Colin McNickle: The continuing case for regular property reassessments
The coronavirus pandemic should be teaching us many things about inappropriate government action. But it also should be teaching us about equally arbitrary and capricious government inaction, concludes a new analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. As the Pittsburgh think tank reminds, the Allegheny County Board of Property...
Letter to the editor: Trump is not ‘dangerous’
President Obama called my president, Donald Trump, “dangerous.” Trump created so many jobs, the unemployment rate was at an all-time low for Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. Dangerous. He got corporations to return to the United States, enabling more manufacturing jobs. What was it Obama said? Manufacturing jobs will never come...
Letter to the editor: Charge electric cars their fair share
Regarding the letter “We must oppose Pa. electric car fee bill” (Dec. 2, TribLIVE): Why not tax electric cars for using the road? If the next president kills the gas and oil industry, there will be no gas tax to fix the roads. Do you think the roads fix themselves?...
Letter to the editor: If Trump had focused on pandemic, he’d have won
It’s pretty pathetic to think that we are going through a horrible pandemic and all that our “leader” can talk about is an election he says was stolen, even though nearly all bipartisan election officials say it was all legit. Do you think the Democrats would have lost any of...
Editorial: Share your light at Hanukkah
Hanukkah is a holiday that celebrates a miracle. It begins as the sun sets Thursday. Eight candles of the hanukkiah, a special menorah or candle holder used just for the Festival of Lights, represent the eight nights that a single vessel of oil lasted when the Jewish people had to...
Letter to the editor: How can Catholics support Biden?
Regarding the Philadelphia Inquirer article “Biden’s faith makes history without fanfare” (Nov. 29): How can President-elect Joe Biden claim to be a faithful Catholic when he advocates and promotes abortion rights, even for late-term abortions? Biden has stated he would reverse the Mexico City policy, which requires nongovernmental organizations to...
Letter to the editor: Time to redd up Allegheny County’s air
I recently had a troubling conversation with some of my neighbors in the East End. They described a sulfur smell permeating their homes, giving them headaches, making their throats hurt and even affecting their pets. I knew Allegheny County has an air pollution problem, but it was nonetheless alarming to...
Catherine Rampell: The best way for Biden to save money later
There are two main arguments for Congress to provide generous, immediate fiscal relief. One is based on humanitarian concerns; the other, economic growth. President-elect Joe Biden should use both in his continuing efforts to sway penny-pinching lawmakers. On Friday, in response to a particularly “grim” jobs report, Biden made a...
Jonah Goldberg: Trumpism unlikely to be an enduring ideology
In the aftermath of President Trump’s 2016 victory, many of his supporters wanted to construct an ideological worldview that would, they hoped, not only supplant traditional conservatism but redefine American politics. As an intellectual project, it was pretty much a bust. For instance, Julius Krein started a journal, American Affairs,...
Letter to the editor: Liberals deserve what they gave Trump for four years
Regarding the article “Joe Biden appeals for unity in Thanksgiving-eve address” (Nov. 25, TribLIVE): Some gall. What a charlatan. Liberals not once cooperated with President Trump, and now they want and expect something they weren’t willing to give. They showed their true colors when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...
Letter to the editor: Bright spots during pandemic
As I watch the number of covid-19 cases and deaths spiral out of control, I wonder if I can find any bright spots. Well, eureka! I thought of two. The first: Despite President Trump’s apparent lack of intellect and moral fiber in dealing with the ongoing crisis, his golf game...
Letter to the editor: Pa. voting law in effect before coronavirus
The writer of the letter “Timid state legislators” (Nov. 30, TribLIVE) stated, “I believe Gov. Tom Wolf and his secretary of State used the coronavirus as an excuse to liberalize our voting to give Joe Biden a distinct advantage in this election.” The current election law, Act 77, permitted mail-in...
Editorial: This pandemic tunnel is long, but light is flickering
If there’s one thing that frustrates Pittsburghers — and just about anyone who drives in and out of the city — it’s the tunnels. A tunnel is nothing more than a road that goes through an obstacle instead of around it. Despite the fact they are nothing new, they seem...
Letter to the editor: Threats to democracy
When did we get to the point when a lawyer was denied his constitutional right to defend a client? The last time I read or heard anything like this was in the days of the Jim Crow South, where it was impossible for a Black man to defend himself. Philadelphia...
Pat Buchanan: What Biden’s first 100 days might look like
The Biden-Harris administration will confront “a pandemic, an economic crisis, calls for racial justice and climate change. The team being assembled will meet these challenges on Day One.” So declares the transition team of Joe Biden, to echo what he’s defined as the lead items on his presidential agenda. The...
Caleb Fuller: ‘E’ for ‘Excellence: — remembering Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams, prolific author, piercing cultural commentator, old school economist (that’s a good thing), devoted husband, loving father and longtime friend of Grove City College, has passed from this world. To the rest of America, Williams, who died Dec. 2, was known as a “suffer-no-fools” commentator on perennial hot-button...
Gene Barr: Gov. Wolf leaves many out in cold with covid liability veto
In a year that’s already been plagued by financial hardships, small businesses, nonprofits, day cares, and the education and medical communities recently received more troubling news when Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed critical liability protections on the last day of the 2019-20 legislative session — effectively leaving these industries out in...
Editorial: The unhealthy state of the Allegheny County Jail
What is happening at the Allegheny County Jail? The Jail Oversight Board is looking into the turnover in medical administration at the county facility. It comes in the wake of several top medical officials stepping down. The most recent was Janet Bunts, who was hired in August to act as...
Letter to the editor: Magical ‘Nutcracker’ a welcome respite
I watched a livestream of “The Nutcracker” as performed by the Westmoreland Ballet, accompanied by the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, and filmed in myriad locations throughout our area (“Westmoreland Ballet films ‘Nutcracker’ at iconic area locations,” Nov. 30, TribLIVE). It was magical! In this sad and scary year, with so much...
