Opinion category, Page 354
Letter to the editor: Abortion is a private matter
I’ll gag if I read one more anti-abortion letter, naturally written by a male. Saying it’s up to the female to prevent her unwanted pregnancy is a true chauvinistic statement. Men have help for erectile dysfunction and Viagra to enhance their sexual desire. Yet many want women to defend themselves...
Letter to the editor: Carbon neutrality unattainable
Once again, President Biden has committed the United States to be carbon neutral by 2050. Consider the following before agreeing. The people of the United States travel approximately 1.9 trillion miles per year via gasoline-powered automobiles, consuming about 83 billion gallons of gasoline. To be carbon neutral, the climate alarmists...
Letter to the editor: Words of wisdom to guide our votes
It is my belief that in the Nov. 8 election if we as Americans use the words of these famous people to aid us in our choice of who to vote for, we will be on the road to healing. Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Ezra Stiles, president of...
Letter to the editor: Eyes are finally opening on abortion
Mary Sanchez’s editorial “Every vote in America now about abortion” (Aug. 23, TribLIVE) gave me cause to celebrate. It’s about time! Before Roe v. Wade was recently overturned, and the question of the legality of abortion was returned to the states, the silence in the media about this subject was...
Clarence Page: ‘Quiet quitting,’ work and worth
Just as I was wondering whether various crises were coming too fast to allow our usual “silly season” of oddball late summer news, an appropriately weird-sounding social trend popped up on social networks and intriguingly struck a nerve. It’s called “quiet quitting.” Put simply, it refers to the act of...
Editorial: There’s still real work to do, Gov. Wolf
OK, Governor, it’s your turn. We recently took the Republican-controlled state Legislature to task for continuing to chew on Act 77 and its aftermath in recent elections like a pack of dogs with a particularly juicy bone. Several lawmakers have been in and out of court with challenges to the...
Cal Thomas: Will Youngkin be No. 9 in Va. presidents list?
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has been in office only seven months and already he is listed at No. 5 in a Washington Post story about possible 2024 GOP presidential candidates. In an interview, I asked him to respond to suggestions in some quarters that he might be well positioned to...
Stacy Garrity: When the ‘cure’ becomes torture
The men and women who put their lives on the line shouldn’t have them placed on hold by a Veterans Administration that kept hundreds in isolation long after the rest of our state emerged from covid lockdown. Yet that’s exactly what happened at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre,...
Letter to the editor: Voting in person can be a challenge for many
Regarding Cliff Long’s letter “We should eliminate mail-in voting” (Aug. 16, TribLIVE): Do you use a wheelchair, rollator or even a cane to get around? If not, count your blessings. Are you able to stand in line for long periods of time? Are you able to go up and down...
Letter to the editor: We must interest our students in trades
Now that President Biden has pushed college loan forgiveness, let’s think for a minute about jobs that do not require college. Not everyone wants or needs college. Right now we need plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, construction workers, heavy equipment operators, etc. — workers educated in trade schools. We hear Biden...
Letter to the editor: Mastriano should speak to us all, not just his ‘target audience’
Letter-writer Peter Busowski (“Media biased against Republican candidates,” Aug. 26, TribLIVE) says that Sen. Doug Mastriano doesn’t talk to the media because the media are biased. He says that alternatives exist that give “conservatives unfiltered access to target audiences.” Aren’t all voters a candidate’s “target audience”? We non-conservatives vote, too,...
Editorial: Roberto Clemente’s dream can build sports cities in every community
Ciudad Deportiva. Sports City. For Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican right fielder who was one of the best players to wear a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform, those words were more than just a dream. They were a plan for the future. The Sports City he envisioned was a gift for the...
Letter to the editor: Power problems in Tarentum
On Aug. 24 at 3:37 a.m., the electric power meter on my garage blew up. Fortunately, the explosion was loud enough to wake me so that I could call for help. The structure would have burned to the ground if I was a sound sleeper. A few minutes before my...
Letter to the editor: We won’t get fooled again
I hear the push is on to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles and move to all electric because of climate concerns. Guess I’d better hurry to buy my new Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. It gets around 13 mpg, has an 807 horsepower engine and does 202 miles per hour. I’ll smoke the...
Tom Purcell: The elephant in the college classroom
“Half of that goes to the bank for your college fund!” That’s what my father told me in the eighth grade, when I got my first paycheck for waking up at 5:30 a.m. to ride my bike a few miles to Cool Springs Driving Range before school, where I plucked...
Letter to the editor: Money for IRS is all about control
On Aug. 12, the Democrats in the House of Representatives agreed with their Senate partners and passed a reconciliation bill filled with money for the EPA, climate, health care and pharma, with $80 billion going to the IRS . It is clear to me that enormous manpower added to the...
Letter to the editor: Missing the good old days
In my day, kids were told to go out and play, and we went. Usually empty-handed or maybe with a ball, hoping some other kid would bring a bat and when the other kids showed up, we’d play ball. There were no overweight kids in the neighborhood because we were...
Letter to the editor: We the people not Wolf’s priorities
During the covid-19 pandemic, how many businesses shut down, never to open again, because of Gov. Tom Wolf’s decisions? I wanted to buy a truck, but could not go to a dealership because they had to shut down. It would have been me and one salesman. Down the street were...
Letter to the editor: Vote no on Republicans’ amendments
Our overpaid, underworked Republican state politicians are proposing amendments to the state Constitution that would deny taxpayer-funded abortion and any other rights related to abortion and deny citizens the right to choose who they want to run for lieutenant governor. And the big one is that they want all electors...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 29
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Aug. 29....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 29
Editorial cartoons for the week of Aug. 29....
Letter to the editor: Dual citizenship should not be an issue
Regarding the letter “Oz’s dual citizenship a concern” (Aug. 21, TribLIVE): A man is born in the United States, grows up here, is educated here and makes his career here. He is American in both form and substance. Is he any less American because he holds citizenship elsewhere? If so,...
Letter to the editor: Free lunches costing us way too much
“E finita la cuccagna!” (no more free lunch), a quote attributable to former New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, must be unfamiliar to letter-writer Dianna J. Rumbaugh (“We need Wolf’s stimulus checks,” Aug. 20, TribLIVE), who advocates another $2,000 from the government printing press. Are you financially better off today...
Editorial: Health Department needs to be crystal clear about marijuana data
Pennsylvania has a data problem. A Commonwealth Court ruling recently directed the Department of Health to provide information on its medical marijuana program. The court got involved as Spotlight PA has tried to investigate the state’s decision to allow medical marijuana to treat opioid addiction. The Department of Health has...
Letter to the editor: We need to save our water
As the world crumbles under our feet with unprecedented droughts — which by the way means not only will there be no water to drink, but also no water for crops and livestock, raising the price of groceries even more — it is time we start to look at the...
