Editorials category, Page 104
Editorial: Replacing hate with tolerance
Hate. When hate is written in capital letters and bold font, we recognize it for what it is. It looks like blood on the walls of a synagogue or a black boy beaten to unrecognizability before being dumped in a river. It sounds like ugly words that leave you shocked...
The cost of a kid’s medication
The first time I went to the pharmacy with my new insurance, I held my breath and stiffened. I looked away and braced myself the same way I do when I get blood work or a flu shot. It was going to hurt. “That will be $35.” What? Oh, no....
Laurels & lances: A baby, a DUI, deaths and support
Laurel: To Miles Everett Bartko. It isn’t every kid who gets this much attention, especially at just a couple of days old. But kudos to young Miles for his keen sense of timing. He wasn’t just the first baby born in Westmoreland County this year. He was the first birth...
Editorial: More nickels, dimes for Pennsylvania Turnpike
Keep a couple extra coins in the cup holder of your car. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is hungry. On Sunday, the toll will go up again, meaning that ride to the office, or that trip in a truck for work, or just that weekend jaunt to Grandma’s house — all of...
Editorial: Dioceses’ answers hard to believe
When Greensburg Bishop Edward Malesic and an assortment of aides, including two monsignors and a lawyer, came to the Tribune-Review in November, there was surprise that anyone would think the various Pennsylvania dioceses had been coordinating their responses to Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s grand jury report on child sex abuse...
