Opinion category, Page 366
Letter to the editor: Pa. shouldn’t be an abortion center
It’s a little creepy to see photographs of Gov. Tom Wolf and his pals all dressed up to tell people how they plan to kill babies. That is such a dark, ugly deed. For more than 40 years, the grassroots pro-life groups in Southwestern Pennsylvania have been working with pregnancy...
Tom Purcell: The value of overbearing fathers
My father is turning 89 this week, and he’s getting especially sentimental of late. The other day, from his hospital bed, he said he hoped he’d been a good father. He said these words with a hint of doubt in his voice. But he got the question backwards. The question...
Letter to the editor: Climate change hysteria destroying economy
The radical left (the New Democratic Party) seems to want to destroy the American economy along with the standard of living of the majority of Americans through their climate change agenda. The biggest proponents of this hysteria (John Kerry, Al Gore, Joe Biden ) and other wealthy elites own multiple...
Letter to the editor: We need Oz as an advocate for students
As a student at Hillsdale College, I understand the importance of a quality education. I’ve seen the decaying public school system and higher education’s abandonment of American values and classical learning. I’ve witnessed attempts to indoctrinate students with far-left ideologies. I’ve seen students, who desperately want to learn, locked out...
Editorial: Westmoreland County could benefit everyone if it functioned cohesively
The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office is getting more help. District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli is adding a public information officer. That salary will set back the county $50,000. She also is getting a fiscal coordinator and grant writer. That position will help seek funding for projects and steer the office’s...
Letter to the editor: Trump is a RINO
Donald Trump is many things: Former president, sore loser, con man, seditionist? Add RINO to the list, as in Republican In Name Only. Consider that before he ran for president in 2016, Trump’s political leanings were ambiguous at best. Trump seized on the right wing because he saw it as...
Letter to the editor: Natural gas development benefits Pa. residents
Natural gas development is safe, well-regulated and generates significant benefits for Pennsylvanians, as the record at Allegheny County’s Deer Lakes Park proves. Rather than deprive citizens of the public benefit future development could bring, Allegheny County Council should have respected County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s veto to maintain status quo and...
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 25
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 25....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 25
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Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Disastrous police response in Uvalde finally coming to light, and it’s ugly
SAN DIEGO Here’s a riddle: How many local, state and federal law enforcement officers does it take to screw up the response to a deadly mass shooting at a Texas elementary school full of Mexican American kids? Answer: 376. That is the total number of law enforcement officers who arrived...
Sen. Kim Ward: A step toward election integrity in Pa.
The commonwealth’s 2022-23 budget and legislative package delivered many things for Pennsylvanians, but one of the most significant yet underlooked items was an issue that many Pennsylvanians said mattered most: election integrity. The election integrity package recently put forth in Pennsylvania engages both the legislative and constitutional amendment processes. Through...
Letter to the editor: We need transparency from commissioners on ARP spending
I want to thank the editorial board for addressing the Westmoreland County commissioners’ baseless plan for an opaque monthly rollout of rescue plan money (“Why the cliffhanger American Rescue Plan announcement?” July 14, TribLIVE). The commissioners were giddy to vote for their spending plan July 14. They sighed in relief...
Letter to the editor: Roe v. Wade’s flaws are many
What’s being lost in all the vitriol following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is a growing awareness that the original 1973 opinion was deeply flawed. In Roe, an activist Warren court created a Maginot Line in the sand that, far from settling a dispute, divided the nation....
Editorial: Quecreek brought us together; it would serve us well to remember that
Pennsylvanians are not the kind of people who do anything in lockstep. We can be tribal. We can be territorial. We are willing to go to war over things such as hockey and football, which university is superior to all others and the best convenience store in the state. We...
Letter to the editor: Pa., not Fla., has the dangerous leaders
In a recent letter, Simon P. Solar warned of the dangerous Gov. Ron DeSantis who deviated from CDC guidance on covid-19 (“DeSantis endangering lives,” July 11, TribLIVE). Apparently, Solar is unaware that the vast majority of the people fleeing to a thriving Florida from blue states don’t agree. While DeSantis...
Letter to the editor: Gun safety shouldn’t be a partisan issue
Many Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers seem to care more about appeasing a minority of their base than protecting their own constituents’ lives. Republicans have persistently blocked and obstructed any legislation or even debate on gun safety bills in Harrisburg. Afraid of a small but vocal portion of their party, they pander...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: A history of presidential cover-ups
Whether you were born during the day or during the night, you weren’t born yesterday or last night, and the Secret Service claims that agents’ text messages before and during the attempted coup of Jan. 6 were inadvertently erased just don’t hold water. The Secret Service told its agents to preserve...
Letter to the editor: It’s the New Ken Bridge
The George D. Stuart Bridge was completed in 1952. No one calls it anything but the Tarentum Bridge. In various locations are signs directing unfamiliar truckers and motorists to the C.L. Schmitt Bridge, raising the question as to how to get to the New Ken Bridge. Please, sign makers in...
Sounding off: Missing real GOP, parents’ and protesters’ rights, sanctity of life
Missing the real Republican Party As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I’d say this, but I miss the Republican Party. It seems that most Republicans have transmogrified into Trumplicans. Some against their will, I assume. Trumplicans are in full campaign mode all the time, pointing out what they see...
Letter to the editor: We must all help the police keep us safe
Lay a gun on a table. Leave it there for a year. How many people did this gun kill? Guns do not kill people. Guns are not the problem in our society. Watch the news every day. What is being done about all the murders? Nothing, it seems to me....
Editorial: Vaccines work and vaccine waste is a tragedy
In December 2020, the nation breathed a collective sigh of relief when the day that had been awaited for nine months finally arrived. The first covid-19 vaccines were delivered to hospitals across the country. The first vaccines were delivered into the arms of some of the most at risk: front-line...
Letter to the editor: 401(k) crypto warning was a public service
There is a dirty secret about 401(k)s. As pensions, they are a mess. Companies love them because they vastly reduced company pension contributions while increasing the amount workers had to pay in. Workers were lured into them because 401(k)s allowed withdrawals. But pensions should not be treated as savings accounts;...
S.E. Cupp: Tiptoeing toward a post-Trump America?
In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, I was confronted with the same singular question from dozens of cable news hosts, print reporters, podcasters and panel moderators — not to mention the occasional stranger in the grocery store or friend at a party: What happens after Trump?...
Letter to the editor: Republicans seem intent on civil war
The letter from Nicholas S. Haden (“Republicans need to pull together and fight,” July 15, TribLIVE) sounds like a call to arms for Republicans. Considering their party leader could be nearing an indictment for seditious conspiracy, I guess I should consider buying a gun to protect for the coming civil...
Letter to the editor: Did deniers sleep through Jan. 6?
I think letter-writer Dave Fredley must live under a rock or a log (“Jan. 6 committee, what a show,” July 14, TribLIVE). You seem to be a denier,just as President Trump is. All of the damaging testimony that has been given has come from relatives, friends and trusted advisors of...
