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Patrick Dowd: Allegheny County’s progress on air quality
The op-ed “Environmental priorities for Allegheny County executive’s first 100 days” (Sept. 25, TribLIVE) by environmental activist Ashleigh Deemer, deputy director of PennEnvironment, contained a great deal of misinformation and bias. The Allegheny Health Department (AHCD) has made tremendous strides in air quality during the last decade. The next county...
Jeff Pedowitz: OpenAI lawsuit a watershed moment for AI ethics and intellectual property
The recent class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, led by the Authors Guild and a group of authors, is a watershed moment for the AI industry. It raises critical questions about ethics, intellectual property and the future of machine learning technologies like Chat GPT. As someone who has spent years in the...
Letter to the editor: Parents ruin sports excitement for kids
I recently attended a midget football game. All seemed fine — fall-like weather, great games going on. Then some foolish parents started to fight in the stands, not once but twice. The game was called for the safety of the players and cheerleaders. Some so-called “parents” don’t apparently realize the...
Letter to the editor: Flag flies for country, not Biden
In response to the letter “Flags fly in support of Biden” (Sept. 24, TribLIVE): Sorry to burst your illusion, but not all flags flying are in support of President Biden. The flag flying in front of my house is in support of our country, not Biden, and the hope that...
Letter to the editor: Faygo-nomics
As to what they now call Bidenomics, I refer to as Faygo-nomics. At least until Jan. 20, 2025, I am relegated to drinking Faygo, RC Cola and whatever lesser brand carbonated swill that they concoct. Yep, never to pass my lips are the likes of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper …...
Editorial: It’s beyond time to crack down on passengers bringing guns to airport checkpoints
Cause and effect follow each other naturally. Touch a hot stove and get a burn. Skip homework and get detention. Drive too fast and get a ticket. It isn’t hard to understand. It’s how we raise children and train pets. When it becomes a problem is when the cause has...
Letter to the editor: Stand in solidarity with striking auto workers
Whether it’s workplace safety, living wages or even the weekend, labor unions have delivered for all Americans. The fight continues: We’re in the middle of an electric vehicle (EV) revolution, and the only thing left to decide isn’t whether it’s going to happen, it’s whether we’ll build them here in...
Tom Purcell: The president’s dogs that bite people
President Biden is being dogged by a unique White House problem. About a week ago, Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, bit a Secret Service officer — Commander’s 11th Secret-Service-officer biting since he moved to the White House in December 2021. Commander must have been following the paw prints of Major, Biden’s...
Letter to the editor: Orenstein’s priorities
I recently had the unpleasant experience of appearing as a landlord before District Justice Xander Orenstein. I’ve been a practicing attorney for over 30 years and have appeared in Magistrate Court hundreds of times. Orenstein touts themself as a progressive, non- binary, tenant advocate, no cash bail, social justice warrior. As...
J. Christian Adams: Automatic voter registration will lead to foreign nationals getting on voter rolls
With great fanfare, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced that the commonwealth will begin implementing automatic voter registration. Automatic voter registration means that when Pennsylvanians get driver’s licenses or state-issued government IDs they will automatically be registered to vote unless they opt out. Currently, people opt in to register to vote....
Maria Fotopoulos: Term limits needed now more than ever
San Francisco, one of America’s most iconic cities, is in decay. Smash-and-grab robberies and open shoplifting have forced businesses to close, law enforcement has tied hands, and urine, feces and the used syringes of zombie drug addicts litter the streets. Yet one of the leaders of the decline, former House...
Letter to the editor: Flag flies for U.S., not Biden
I want to truly thank the writer of the extremely humorous letter “Flags flying in support of Biden” (Sept. 24, TribLIVE). At first I thought it was great satire, but then realized that he believes that all who patriotically fly the flag of our great country do so as a...
Editorial: Government shutdown not avoided, just punted
Let’s not celebrate the last minute aversion of a government shutdown too quickly. After weeks of growing concern about the federal crisis, the U.S. House of Representatives was even more divided than usual by the time a successful vote was taken Saturday afternoon. Pennsylvania’s federal legislators came together when it...
Letter to the editor: Privatizing our public services
It feels like Big Money has targeted Pennsylvania to become a corporate friendly and working middle class unfriendly place. Look at what happened in New Stanton. Our local government gave subsidies to Amazon, which has spent millions trying to destroy unions and is known for its abuse of workers and...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Oct. 2
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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Oct. 2
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Letter to the editor: School buses should have seat belts
I strongly believe all school buses regardless of size or capacity should be required to have seat belts for all student. Last month, there was an accident in Dravosburg where some students were ejected from their school bus. Tragically, one young lady died. This never would have happened if the...
Letter to the editor: Shutdown, gasoline and gouging
I wonder if the Republicans who are trying to shut down the government would do so if they would not get their salary. The Biden administration is getting blamed for the high price of gasoline. The fact that Saudi Arabia has cut production by 1 million barrels per day since...
Letter to the editor: Problems with the Steelers
Dear Mr. Rooney, I am writing about the smell emitting from Acristench Stadium. The culprit is your team, those Rich Men north of North Side, aka the Steelers (apologies Oliver Anthony). I’ll help identify the problems so the air will clear before the EPA gets involved. In advance, you’re welcome....
Editorial: Gainey’s ‘Downtown is doing well’ assessment ignores realism of Pittsburgh’s bigger picture
Everything is just fine in Downtown Pittsburgh. That’s what Mayor Ed Gainey said Tuesday in a forum at Point Park University. “Our Downtown is doing well,” he said. It is the kind of stiff-upper-lip optimism that may give some confidence. When the Tribune-Review asked people, their opinions were mixed. “The...
Letter to the editor: Small businesses need credit card reform
Ballooning credit card “swipe fees” have been detrimental to small businesses across Pennsylvania. In 2022, swipe fees cost businesses almost $130 billion — 20% more than the year prior. And with Visa and Mastercard planning to increase fees by an additional $502 million this fall, it could be the final...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Biden takes stand for striking workers
I was in grade school when I walked my first United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line at the factory gate of the Fisher Body plant in West Mifflin. I can’t remember if it was a contract strike for better wages and benefits or a wildcat strike over a safety issue...
Counterpoint: The impeachment to end them all
Our nation faced only two presidential impeachments during its first 222 years. Suddenly, in 2021, President Donald Trump was impeached for the second time, and now we’re facing a third impeachment in four short years. This flurry of impeachment activity requires us to ask: Is President Joe Biden facing impeachment...
Point: Biden impeachment inquiry is a shameless attempt at political retribution
The impeachment inquiry House Republicans have launched against President Joe Biden is a transparent, shameless and embarrassingly weak attempt at political retribution. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has launched the probe not because it has merit but because the most extreme members of his party demanded it to damage Biden’s reelection...
Letter to the editor: Flag flies for vets, not Biden
Regarding the letter “Flags fly in support of Biden” (Sept. 24, TribLIVE): No, I do not fly the American flag to support Joe Biden. I fly it to support and remember all the people who fought and died to preserve the greatest country on the planet. I read the letter...
