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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 26
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 26....
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...
Editorial: Penn State president’s retention bonus is out of touch amid cuts
Penn State is doing a lot of cost cutting lately. Under President Neeli Bendapudi, there has been a real campaign to slash what many might see as a bloated budget. The 2023-24 budget is $9.5 billion. Educating on the scale Penn State does is expensive. In addition to the sprawling...
Gary Franks: Biden vs. Trump — can we get a political reboot?
Why should funding go to any foreign nation to help them secure their borders until an obstinate President Joe Biden secures America’s border from an invasion via the use of our military or any other effective means? We spend trillions of dollars to ostensibly protect America, yet Biden refuses to...
Michael Stelzig: No need to worry about national security in U.S. Steel deal
Anyone familiar with national security knows that Japan is an important mutual defense treaty ally to our country. And anyone familiar with Pittsburgh and Allegheny County knows how important the steel industry has been to this region. Just over two months ago, we witnessed these two worlds coming together —...
Cal Thomas: The new American antisemitism
In the aftermath of “from the river to the sea” anti-Israel protests on many college campuses and in the streets comes a perfectly timed book by Johns Hopkins University professor Benjamin Ginsberg titled “The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, The Right, and the Jews.” Ginsberg is especially hard on progressives...
Letter to the editor: The true threat to democracy
This post has made the rounds on social media: “It didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with one party controlling the media. One party controlling the message. One party deciding what is truth. One party censoring speech and silencing opposition. One party dividing citizens into ‘us’ and ‘them’ and...
Letter to the editor: Governor wrong on legal marijuana
Listening to our governor say on the news that we are losing $250 million because Pennsylvania hasn’t made marijuana legal, and using the old saying that “other states do it,” made me sick. Ever since I can remember, doctors have said it’s a steppingstone to other drugs. Our police are...
Lori Falce: Jon Stewart, bothsidesism and asking not-so-tough questions
Last week, comedian Jon Stewart returned to his chair at “The Daily Show.” He will occupy it again one night a week leading up to the November elections. It’s a move that was championed by fans and by many on the left. Stewart has long enjoyed skewering conservatives, and Trevor...
Letter to the editor: Continued promotion of ‘Big Lie’ astounding
I read the letter “Democrats’ ‘whatever it takes’ pattern” (Feb. 12, TribLive) and found it necessary to respond. The unwavering pattern of continued promotion of the Trump “Big Lie” astounds me. The letter cites an alleged poll by Heartland/Rasmussen where its poll results show overwhelming admissions by pollsters of voter...
Laurels & lances: Caps, meetings and closings
Laurel: To help in healing. Sometimes it takes a mom to recognize what’s going to make someone feel better. Heather Shuker, 49, knows what doctors have done for her daughter, Hannah, who has battled severe seizures for 20 years. But being there through it all gave her a perspective a...
Letter to the editor: Immigrants who commit crimes should be deported
I am not against properly vetted immigration to the United States. I am opposed to the thousands of non-vetted immigrants that the Biden administration has let flood over our border. The scenes of New York police officers being mauled by a gang of immigrants goes beyond words. Some of these...
