Opinion category, Page 153
Letter to the editor: Letter-writers need a reality check
Two recent letters have me wondering what reality the authors are living in. “Trump has integrity, honor” (July 29, TribLive) opened with “Trump is a man of integrity and honor.” “Harris will win because of Biden’s ‘payoffs’ ” (July 30, TribLive) accused President Biden of “payoffs” to the Teamsters and other...
Letter to the editor: Real reason food prices are so high
Let’s say the cost of fuel goes up 18% (actually it’s been more) since 2020. A farmer buys new equipment or parts to fix his equipment — 18% increase in fuel cost. A farmer buys seed/fertilizer to use for planting in the spring — 18% increase in fuel cost. A...
Editorial page cartoons for the week of Aug. 5
Editorial page cartoons for the week of Aug. 5....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 5
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 5....
Letter to the editor: Project 25 piece better served as editorial
The article “What is Project 2025, and how could it impact the Pittsburgh region?” (July 28, TribLive) would have been better served as an editorial. To have it as a top story in your Sunday print edition is shameful. The entire article is conjecture and blatantly screams of “Vote for...
Letter to the editor: Ending K9 officers a bad look for Jeannette
The City of Jeannette recently announced that they are no longer going to employ the police K-9 officers (“Jeannette shutters K-9 program as ‘cost prohibitive,’ ” July 25, TribLive). Details were not given, but the officers recently filed a lawsuit against the city for overtime pay. Prior to the lawsuit, there...
Letter to the editor: Celebrating all of a person’s heritage
Simple biology shows us that each person has a mother and a father. Both contribute DNA equally to the offspring. If a person has both the great African American and people of India as a heritage, both should be celebrated. Ignoring this fact shows a sad lack of understanding of...
Letter to the editor: Saddened by daily news reports from Western Pa.
As the son of a mother who lovingly recounted growing up in Butler, and a grandfather who made sure I was the only kid in Queens County, N.Y., who grew up with a reverence for Ralph Kiner, Bill Mazeroski and most of all Roberto Clemente (which didn’t exactly endear me...
Letter to the editor: ‘Weird’ is a mean word, and Trump may take the bait
Was anyone surprised last week to hear so many prominent Democratic spokespeople use the same exact word? The word of the day was “weird.” When you see a montage of the clips, it’s obvious to me that they brainstorm via Zoom each morning to decide on the talking point for...
Letter to the editor: Netanyahu visit strange time for consensus
Congress gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a standing ovation. He has faced calls to resign from 72% of Israelis, including Hamas hostages’ family members, six of whom were arrested protesting the very address Congress applauded. He has faced indictments in Israel for corruption. Just a year ago, Israelis took...
Editorial: This trade is not finished, Mr. President
A Rube Goldberg machine is the intersection of inspired engineering, cartoonish imagination and childlike faith. Familiar from Goldberg’s own illustrations in the 1930s and Saturday morning programming like “Tom and Jerry” and “Scooby-Doo,” they are contraptions that string together improbable parts to accomplish a seemingly simple task. A marble rolls...
Letter to the editor: Ending price gouging
Fidelity sends a periodic newsletter to its investors. Its June 17, 2024, issue dealt with the gap between the reality and the perception of the U.S. economy. The data shows the economy is healthy and growing, but Americans are very pessimistic. Our gross domestic product has grown over the past...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Trump’s sideshow is back, and it’s grown old
I was determined not to lose any friends during and after the 2020 presidential race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and my plan was moderately successful. You want to be challenged if you write a weekly newspaper column about politics and government, but my email during the Trump years...
Richard Forno: Social media and political violence — how to break the cycle
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13 added more fuel to an already fiery election season. In this case, political violence was carried out against the party that is most often found espousing it. The incident shows how uncontrollable political violence can be — and how dangerous the...
Sheldon H. Jacobson: Who will pay for the Crowdstrike outage?
Crowdstrike did not have a good day on July 19. During a routine software update, the file that the cybersecurity firm issued triggered a logic error that prohibited Windows machines from rebooting. Microsoft estimates that about 8.5 million computers may have been affected by the event. This created a tsunami of...
Elisabeth Rosenthal: Why many nonprofit (wink, wink) hospitals are rolling in money
One owns a for-profit insurer, a venture capital company and for-profit hospitals in Italy and Kazakhstan; it has just acquired its fourth for-profit hospital in Ireland. Another owns one of the largest for-profit hospitals in London, is partnering to build a massive training facility for a professional basketball team and...
Letter to the editor: Red-light tech could increase fatalities
Regarding the July 30 article “Red-light district: Pittsburgh mulls tech to catch traffic light scofflaws” (July 30, TribLive): Pittsburgh City Council should consider the data from other cities that have implemented this policy. Washington, D.C., has been utilizing this technology since 2015, and fatalities have actually increased since doing so....
Sounding off: Politics week’s top letters’ topic
Why don’t we better protect our presidents, candidates? How many times have we heard the same refrain from a U.S. president, federal officials serving in the Secret Service, FBI and Central Intelligence Agency, and news media pundits after a president or presidential candidate has been assassinated or wounded in assassination...
Letter to the editor: Our pitiful world
What a pitiful world we live in when drag queens are in the opening ceremony of the Olympics, when illegals seem to have more rights than citizens, when many criminals are not held accountable, when the government wants to force its agendas on us and, especially, when a first-grader is...
Letter to the editor: Democrats’ bait and switch
I find it curious how quiet the mainstream media is about the bait and switch pulled by the Democrats. It was President Biden who got the votes and the delegates, not Kamala Harris. If the Republicans had done this prior to the nomination, you know we wouldn’t hear the end...
Laurels & lances: Doing good & doing nothing
Laurel: To a sense of purpose. When you mention “volunteering” and “dementia,” people have an image in mind. It’s about people coming to a nursing home and doing something with the patients. Maybe they read. Maybe they play music or just sit and talk. But it’s about an able person...
Letter to the editor: We should all be concerned about Project 2025
Americans of all stripes should be concerned about Project 2025, a transition plan for the Trump government put together by many people who served in Donald Trump’s first presidential administration. For example, the section I cite below was written by Ken Cuccinelli, who served in the Department of Homeland Security...
Gary Franks: If not mentally fit, Biden must go now
We have all seen the warning signs about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity. More than a century ago, the captain of the Titanic got warning signs about the conditions of the ocean that night. He ignored them. Will America do the same with Biden? We do so at our own...
S.E. Cupp: It fits well. All the president’s men …are weird.
“Weird.” It’s the new Democratic talking point being used to describe former President Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. It was first used by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the wake of newly surfaced Vance videos in which he calls Democrats “childless cat ladies”...
Greg Fulton: The surprising John Fetterman
Many people, like I, viewed Sen. John Fetterman as merely a lesser version of Bernie Sanders when he was running for Senate. Progressives in the Democratic Party felt he was one of them and thought he would unwaveringly support their agenda, a “back bencher” who would sit quietly and follow...
