Letters to the Editor category, Page 11

President Trump’s shameful performance at the Feb. 28 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his lack of support for Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine conflict remind me of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s performance at the Munich Agreement in 1938, at which Chamberlain...

Dr. Iulia Vann, director of the Allegheny County Health Department, cites 50 department vacancies which limit her capacity to control the air pollution that makes this one of the unhealthiest places to live in America. In September 2024, the Allegheny County Board of Health recommended increasing air quality operating permit...

My letter was originally intended to show support for President Trump’s harsh dealings with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but 48 hours later my defense became unnecessary since the truth became obvious and Zelenskyy recanted his position. Such is the rapidity of Trump’s successes. After watching Trump’s joint address to Congress,...

In 1964 if you sat at the family dinner table with a ball cap on, you were told to remove it. In 2004 Howard Dean on the campaign trail yelled “YEAH!” and that one action doomed his presidential campaign. Today we have a president who constantly wears a baseball hat...

I recently attended a performance of Pine-Richland High School’s musical “42nd Street.” What an enjoyable evening. Professionals couldn’t have staged a better show. The set decorations and scenery rivaled what you see in major cultural sites. The cast was no less amazing. Vocals and dance routines were top notch, especially...

MAGA Land: This once was your land But now it’s MAGA land From Panama’s canal To the Greenland island From Canadian forests To a strip called Gaza Your land, it now belongs to me. This song, thankfully, has yet to be written. But it’s easy to imagine that MAGA songwriters...

Despite his occasional off-putting communication style, President Donald Trump’s actions are proving the adults are now in the federal government room. He has almost totally secured the southern and northern borders against the flow of illegal immigrants and deadly fentanyl, a complete reversal of what people saw on TV as...

First they came for the immigrants and DEI, and I did not speak out — because I was not a minority. Then they came for government workers, the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Service, and I did not speak out — because I did not work...

The American people spoke in November. They want something done to solve the illegal immigration problem. President Trump is trying, but it will take time and lots of money. In my opinion, we have President Biden to thank for the situation. Trump needs to finish the southern border wall. Biden...

What’s left but to fire people and rip the government apart? I’m laughing because the biggest problem is our national debt. It’s $36 trillion and trillions in interest paid per year. President Trump talked, all talk, about a flat tax. I had hope, but it probably won’t happen. Declare corruption,...

Last week, Pittsburghers gathered downtown for a We Stand with Ukraine demonstration, making clear that our city refuses to abandon Ukraine in its fight for survival. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance mock President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, block critical military aid and treat Vladimir Putin’s war as a...

When Volkswagen of America laid off all its employees and moved its plant from New Stanton to Mexico, I don’t remember any lawsuits being filed for us to keep our jobs. Evidently our government employees are more important. Tim Scheeren Hempfield...

The writer of the letter “Speak up to stop Musk’s coup” (Feb. 15, TribLive) claims Elon Musk is a billionaire with no security clearance. That is false. Musk holds a top secret security clearance for his work with SpaceX. It is time to think with your head instead of your...

2020 was the year that the world changed. A pandemic spread across this country and over a million people died. I mention that because in the middle of it, Dr. Anthony Fauci took over the handling of it. He was unelected but with the help of the Centers for Disease...

I was shocked and horrified to learn that for decades, our nation’s horses have been shuttled into the horse slaughter pipelines, delivered to Canada and Mexico and killed for food. I am so grateful to Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Mary Gay Scanlon and Madeleine Dean for sponsoring the Save America’s Forgotten...

People say I’m an alarmist. How can anyone not be alarmed by the takeover of our government by an unconfirmed, unvetted, unelected South African billionaire taking it upon himself to tell the American people what we need and don’t need? In his personal opinion, we don’t need the National Institutes...

In response to letters to Pennsylvania’s Republican senator about cabinet nominees, I received the following: “President Trump has nominated a team of disrupters to deliver on his promise of change.” Sen. Dave McCormick was a Connecticut-based venture capitalist before running for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat. Venture capitalism’s guiding principle is...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is up in arms about federal funding he was counting on being withheld from Pennsylvania agencies. He didn’t seem to have any trouble canceling funding to pro-life counseling centers throughout the state. Psalm 22:28: For the kingdom is the Lord’s and he is governor among the nations....

Watching the latest episode of the city government failing yet again, this time involving the sudden departure of the acting police chief (“Leadership vacuum: Ragland withdraws as Pittsburgh police chief candidate plans to retire,” March 4, TribLive), eerily reminds me of watching a high school-themed comedy from the 1980s: the...

Elon Musk invested approximately $250 million in Donald Trump’s campaign, and now it seems he is the de facto U.S. president. Who needs free and fair elections if money buys you a position that you can’t aspire to because you don’t meet the qualifications? It appears Musk is calling the...

The writer of the letter “Christians and Trump” (Feb. 27, TribLive) displayed typical Democrat judgments of Christians. But what is a Christian? John 3:16: No one can earn their way to heaven. Romans 3:23: “We are all sinners and fall short of the grace of God.” Jesus did it all...

Wake up people! It’s not President Trump who wants Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, it’s Vladimir Putin. Think about it. Craig Smith Irwin...

Yo, Sen. John Fetterman, what are you trying to prove? How broad-minded you are? I once heard that an open mind is an empty mind. Why don’t you move into your boy’s basement in Key Largo or wherever he slithers about? You realize, of course, your goose is cooked in...

Leave it to our honorable governor to enact yet another innovative solution to help people. That is what Gov. Josh Shapiro has done in seeking to make it easier to hire federal workers who have found themselves innocent pawns in the Trump/Musk rampage of firings. While Office of Management and...

Our country got its start by rebelling against a king. It was based on a Constitution complete with a Bill of Rights. Our government included a system of checks and balances with three different branches to ensure that no one person (or aristocracy) could have absolute power and control over...