Letters to the Editor category, Page 244

Please take down your Trump signs. It’s embarrassing. President Joe Biden will build back better. Treasure that! Rose Guerra West Newton...

Letter-writer Jim Fontana Sr. (“Minimum wage questions” ) asked readers to try to explain why raising the minimum wage could be proper. I am an 88-year-old retired accountant who spent over 40 years working with payrolls and employee benefits, and I would like to try. First, I believe the American...

President Biden has launched a number of executive orders undoing our former president’s onerous orders. Our new president has crafted a bill to create jobs by pump-priming manufacturing, providing loans to small businesses, promoting climate projects, energizing vaccine distribution, and sending $1,400 checks to most taxpayers. Now it is up...

I would like to thank Frank Dermody for everything he did for Harrison Township and the communities he represented in the Allegheny Valley. I don’t think residents of the area realize what a loss it is to lose a representative who was the minority leader in the Pennsylvania House of...

Throughout this country’s history, leaders have stepped up to lead the nation during critical times. Since early last year, we have been faced with a covid-19 pandemic which in one year has taken more lives than the United States lost in World War II. Yet where is the leadership? The...

Regarding the letter “Smokers shouldn’t get vaccine priority” : I have also heard some say the obese, drug addicted and incarcerated should not get vaccine priority. As long as people are judging who is deserving and who isn’t deserving vaccine priority, I ask, where in the vaccine priority should the...

I hear from so many politicians and parents that the kids should be in school. I agree. So, with all the complaining from politicians and parents, why were employees of public schools not first on the list to get vaccinated? Every employee at public schools should have been on the...

Is citizen Donald John Trump, formerly known as President Donald John Trump, above the law? If convicted of crimes he committed prior to and during his presidency, should he be punished to the fullest extent of the law? If he is not held accountable for his possible high crimes and...

If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. Who would think that Joe Biden would be elected president after 47 years in Washington? Many of us feel this election had some serious flaws, especially with mail-in ballots. Should we have an investigation? No doubt! We want a true investigation,...

Apart from one’s thoughts on whether smokers should be placed at the head of the line for covid-19 vaccines, as Gov. Tom Wolf has done, how is the determination to be made on who is a smoker ? It is like saying everyone who has a headache gets prioritized. Keith...

Let’s “grade” some facts. Grade A facts have official records; a Grade B fact is someone’s interpretation of a Grade A fact which can be questioned. Grade A facts: • A sworn affidavit is a written statement signed under penalty of perjury. • Hundreds of sworn affidavits were given by...

I watched, angry at what I saw as domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol. Easily identified by their MAGA caps and flags as Trump supporters, many wore paramilitary gear and maneuvered as trained militia. The nearly all white invaders, neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, anti-Semites and white power group followers were called to...

Now Donald Trump knows how the contestants on his TV show felt when he told them his favorite phrase, “You’re fired!” Larry Howard Jr. Plum...

Dear Mr. President, I have a question about your jobs plan and your new clean energy policy. If I recall correctly, when this was implemented during the Obama presidency, it did not end well. Think Solyndra or “those shovel-ready jobs weren’t so shovel ready.” What makes you think that it...

Sen. Pat Toomey is still our senator? I thought he retired. I was surprised he was still our senator when he announced in October that he was retiring by not running for reelection in 2022. Where has he been? An online search found he’s been our senator since 2011! Over...

Letter-writer Kathleen Bollinger (“Who will get the credit for defeating covid?,” Dec. 15) asked why President Trump should share his covid-19 strategy with President Biden when Biden would “get all the credit for defeating covid-19.” Let’s go over Trump’s strategy. First, at the beginning, he downplayed it and called Democrats’...

In the first two weeks of his presidency, Joe Biden has signed 42 executive actions affecting the lives of Americans. Forty-two in two weeks! President Trump signed six in his first two weeks. I know that whatever anyone says in support of Trump will inevitably fall on deaf ears. That...

I urge everyone not to encourage disrespect for the new president. He will do enough on his own. John W. Newhouse Shaler...

Only a few weeks into 2021 and we have seen it is just as bad as 2020 for local farms. Two prominent local farms, Kretschmann Farm near Rochester and Jamison Farm near Latrobe, have both announced they are shutting down operations. This is partly because of covid, but also due...

I can accept that we all have our own opinions and emotions about our representatives and how our government should be handled, and we are all entitled to those emotions and opinions. But I am totally dumbfounded as to how anyone can be so gullible to buy into the conspiracy...

So smokers who choose to harm themselves and their loved ones, via secondhand smoke, take priority over first responders when it comes to receiving the covid vaccine. The first group chooses to smoke while the latter chose a career dedicated to helping others, including those who may be already infected...

Having read the article “2020 brings increase in Westmoreland overdose deaths” (Jan. 10, TribLIVE), I would like to provide the following information. The worst threat to the United States is not its political divisions or its economic crises or its health care policy. It is the brilliant minds and talent...

Congressman Reschenthaler: Your military oath: I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the...

Hope you Biden voters are feeling good about your choice. So far, I see him making an aggressive run at sliding our country back to the dismal Obama days — miserable economy, growing unemployment, ban on drilling and fracking, inviting in illegal aliens, no deportation of criminal aliens, crushing free...

Exasperated and mournful, I am offering a few belated comments since America now suffers the throes of an election that has ushered socialism into a republic not being saved. Damn the liberal, subversive, progressive Democrat and RINO turncoat torpedoes, full speed ahead against tyranny and treason. The Washington swamp saved...