Opinion category, Page 190
Chris Cargill: Bringing transparency to the cost of college
Is the cost of college still worth the price? According to the Education Data Initiative, the average student loan debt in the United States totals $37,338. The average student borrows more than $30,000 to pursue a bachelor’s degree. And more than 45 million Americans have student loan debt. High school...
Michael J. Socolow: How you can tell propaganda from journalism — let’s look at Tucker Carlson’s visit to Russia
Tucker Carlson, the conservative former cable TV news pundit, recently traveled to Moscow to interview Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for his Tucker Carlson Network, known as TCN. The two-hour interview itself proved dull. Even Putin found Carlson’s soft questioning “disappointing.” Very little from the interview was newsworthy. Other videos Carlson...
Letter to the editor: Biden can secure the border
Something has to be done about our border crisis. President Biden claims he cannot do anything about it without Congress. What? You practically opened the border and stopped the agreement with Mexico to hold illegal immigrants. Without Congress. President Trump closed the border without Congress. Stop playing politics and close...
Letter to the editor: Can’t keep up with tax, rate hikes
This is to our wonderful county commissioners, water company officials, Comcast and the illustrious Greensburg Salem school directors (who seem to be ruled by the money-grabbing teachers union). Everyone is expected to pay up for pay raises, raises in taxes, retirement funds. No one pays for our retirement or funds...
Letter to the editor: Abortion doesn’t solve world’s problems
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” — “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens God forbid that the writer of the letter “Backward steps on abortion” (Feb 19, TribLive), who offers to sacrifice the lives of preborn children to decrease...
Letter to the editor: Lack of retirement health care hurts police officers
There has been a severe decline in applicants for police jobs. “Defund the police” politicians and other groups, ultra liberal district attorneys, and the liberal media-bashing has definitely had its ill effects. But one thing that no one talks about is the one thing that has always amazed me. A...
Editorial: Your air quality may be more dangerous than your phone is telling you. The EPA is fine with that.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s adoption of a more stringent annual limit on fine particulate matter, or soot, fulfills an overdue obligation to curb a deadly type of air pollution that triggers asthma, heart attacks, strokes and a host of other health problems. But the agency made a serious mistake by...
Letter to the editor: A noble American?
A parody of Mark Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar: Friends, Americans, countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury the Porn Patron not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones — so let it be with...
Letter to the editor: Postmortem for Lenape Heights Golf Club
Regarding the article “Armstrong County golf resort sells for $2.5M, leaving weddings, other events in limbo” (Feb. 16, TribLive): To those who started Lenape Heights Event Center & Golf Resort, a community that was a great venue for golfers to enjoy the game we truly love, I thank you. Some...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 26
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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 26
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Letter to the editor: Convention center at Westmoreland Mall?
With the upcoming closure of the Monroeville Convention Center, I would suggest the owners/managers of Westmoreland Mall market the former Sears store as a replacement. I would suggest local politicians get active in this endeavor, too. Tim Johnston Youngwood...
Letter to the editor: Hunting should not be allowed on Sundays
It’s OK to hunt, but I would really like to have my Sundays with no shooting. Sunday is a day for relaxing; I don’t want to be woken up with people shooting outside my house. I want to get up, go to church, come home, fix something to eat for...
Letter to the editor: More work to do on recycling in Pittsburgh
A new year presents a time to reflect on past successes and future opportunities. For members of Pennsylvania’s nonalcoholic beverage industry, a major milestone of 2023 was an investment in the transition to bin-based recycling made possible by the beverage industry’s Every Bottle Back initiative. This investment provides 50,000 new...
Letter to the editor: Voters should have skin in the game
Let me begin by saying that I am all for overhauling the election system. Ballots must be traceable and certifiable through an auditing process. No electronic voting machines that can be compromised through internet hacking or other mischief may be permitted. Mail-in voting must only be available to those with...
Editorial: School security is too important to neglect
There are places that a school district can cut corners. None is pleasant. Trim things off the maintenance budget, and you can set up bigger building projects later on. Short the curriculum, and you get poor test scores and unprepared students. Whatever gets cut one place costs in another. But...
Letter to the editor: Education and leadership
It seems the purpose of education in this country has been forgotten or at least misdirected. Rather than preparing young people with the knowledge and understanding necessary to shoulder the responsibilities of self-governance in our constitutional republic, it appears most students are being prepared for some niche in the workforce....
Letter to the editor: Supporting Ukraine best for world
I traveled to Lviv and Kyiv, Ukraine, every year from 1994-2000 and helped to start a heart surgery program at the Lviv Regional University Hospital in collaboration with the Norwin Rotary Club, the Pittsburgh-based Tri-State Children of Chernobyl Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development. We performed the...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Think bigger than ‘tiny homes’ to aid our homeless
As most American cities grapple with record numbers of homeless citizens, Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials continue to struggle to provide temporary and permanent housing for our region’s homeless population. Now, there is a city zoning amendment being proposed to allow a scattering of “tiny home” communities throughout Downtown and...
Counterpoint: Ukraine can no longer win
As the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country to its west passes and the latest aid package for Ukraine stalls in Congress, we must be clear-eyed about the future: There is no path for Ukraine to win this war. American support will not change this reality. Two...
Point: Ukraine can win — here’s how
Ten years into Russia’s long war against Ukraine, far too many Americans are falling prey to a destructive idea. They needlessly believe that Ukraine’s defeat is unavoidable. These Americans have lost their bearings. Defeat is never inevitable so long as a nation is willing to fight. George Washington proved this...
Letter to the editor: A better way to investigate deaths at jail
The National Commission on Correctional Health Care mandates that a clinical mortality review be done within 30 days of a death at a county jail, and it found in an investigation of the Allegheny County Jail that “Allegheny County doesn’t do clinical mortality reviews.” Completing mortality reviews is essential to...
Letter to the editor: Which people are worth more than others?
I respond to the latest offering in the series of impassioned “abortion is good for the environment” rants by the same writer (“Backward steps on abortion,” Feb. 19, TribLive). Says he: “We have too many people in this world, and there’s no better place to start than those who aren’t...
Sounding off: Civil War, recreational marijuana, immigration
Lincoln has final word on cause of Civil War Let’s finally kill that myth that several letter-writers are attempting to perpetuate regarding the cause of the Civil War. And we can let Abraham Lincoln settle it with his own words from his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 (emphasis mine):...
Letter to the editor: Merging into bigger school districts a wise move
All these small river towns outside of Pittsburgh, or some may call it the suburbs, should merge into bigger school districts, such as Oakmont and Springdale/Cheswick, Lower Burrell and New Ken/Arnold, Kiski and Lower Burrell, just to name a few examples. It’s not like I am asking the United States...
