Opinion category, Page 368
Letter to the editor: Worst president ever?
Has the country ever had a worse president and administration? After only 18 months, President Biden and his socialist cabinet have clearly shown themselves to be at war against America. Forcing outrageous inflation on the country through restrictions on American fossil-fuel supplies and investments with no alternative workable energy system...
Letter to the editor: Fracking should be kept away from county parks
The Allegheny County executive’s veto of Bill 12162-22 must be overturned. Contact your Allegheny County Council representative today. The eighth edition of the Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking was released in May by Concerned Health Professionals of New York (a project of...
Tom Purcell: Dogged by dog days of summer
It’s been hot outside the past few weeks. The grass is turning brown. The hornets are angry. The dog days of summer have arrived. The origin of “dog days” actually has nothing to do with canines lazing on the porch because it’s too dang hot to do anything else. According...
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland sheriff, deputies prepared to keep us safe
When I was a young mayor in Southwest Greensburg in charge of a police department from 1981 to 1992, a school or mass shooting was not even thought about by law enforcement. Nowadays, we find ourselves as a nation in the middle of this senseless violence. I give Westmoreland County...
Letter to the editor: Alternatives to salt for deicing
Regarding the letter “Road salt destroying bridges, water, roads, cars” (July 13, TribLIVE) that identifies the use of salt on Pittsburgh’s roads as a major reason for bridge corrosion and collapse: I’m not an engineer or a chemist, but I believe the writer has made an important point. However, his...
Letter to the editor: Legislators, do your job
Thank you, Jeanne Passarelli, for your letter “We need new rules for our legislators” (July 10, TribLIVE). A specific case on point: The civil penalties section of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law has never been updated since it was passed and made effective in 1968. It allows...
Editorial: Do the Pittsburgh Pirates really need a new scoreboard?
Apparently the Pittsburgh Pirates decided to save the Steelers from all the sports fan outrage last week. Sure, the football team started it with the announcement July 11 that Heinz Field was changing its name to Acrisure Stadium, selling the naming rights to a Michigan-based financial and tech insurance company...
Letter to the editor: Circus of madness
The late, great Nat King Cole long ago sang, “It’s a Barnum and Bailey world. Just as phony as it can be.” But now we’re living in the middle of the greatest circus ever seen … and phony is an understatement. Take a seat and watch people virtue signal by...
Letter to the editor: Fitzgerald’s action on park drilling applauded
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald’s veto of council’s ban on natural gas drilling beneath county parks — along with his proposed compromise bill — should be applauded, based on the direct experience of the Deer Lakes Park lease in 2014 (“Fitzgerald defends decision to veto Allegheny County parks fracking ban...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 18
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 18....
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 18
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 18....
Stephen Asma : Alienation produces weaponized loners
Recent mass shootings in Highland Park, Ill., Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, have produced the same futile debates that always follow such tragedies. Conservatives blame mental illness, and liberals blame gun access. But we cannot make progress if we do not examine the cultural roots that repeatedly produce these vengeful...
Letter to the editor: Heinz Field name change all about corporate greed
Without notice, the Heinz Field name change came in the blink of an eye. Why not call the stadium Art Rooney Field after the Steelers’ founder? We could revert back to the geographical reference of Three Rivers Stadium. How appropriate. The new naming rights revenue should go back to the...
Letter to the editor: Pa. needs educational freedom
On July 7, Arizona passed, and their governor has signed into law, a bill that delivers educational freedom for more than 1.1 million students. This is the first state to break the chokehold that public schools and their teachers’ unions have on the national educational system. Parents will have the...
Editorial: Is state election money a gift or a problem?
There is a lot of concern about the money in elections. How do we know who is contributing to a campaign? Who is funding the political parties? Who is paying for the ads and the buses and the big-budget rallies? There are questions about where the money is coming from...
Letter to the editor: Let the immigrants come in and fill our jobs
As I drive through different sections of Greensburg, and travel through other towns and cities, I see the same thing everywhere: “Hiring” signs. We have noticed that our popular Sunday morning breakfast restaurant has empty tables an a 45-minute wait time to get a table. Why? Because they can’t find...
Letter to the editor: 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 as failures, defects, bad policy...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Facts on a lost, not stolen, election
If you are one of those Trump supporters who believes what you believe, no matter what, reading “Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election” is not for you. But if you are on the fence looking for facts from an honest...
Tony Barboza: We’re in a crowded universe, but Earth is still precious
On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark Sierra Nevada sky. Above the forest and mountains I saw constellations and stars that are...
Sounding off: Overturning Roe is a disaster for national unity
One of the stranger assertions in the Dobbs opinion is that Roe v. Wade is “controversial.” In the first place it’s not true — nearly all polls show a staunch majority against overturning it. But Roe was also a compromise, between the two strong positions that abortion should be fully...
Zahilyn D. Roche Allred: Improving science literacy means changing science education
To graduate with a science major, college students must complete between 40 and 60 credit hours of science coursework. That means spending around 2,500 hours in the classroom throughout their undergraduate career. However, research has shown that despite all that effort, most college science courses give students only a fragmented...
Peter Neumann, Joshua Cohen and Daniel Ollendorf: Mark Cuban won’t fix our drug pricing problem
Mark Cuban, the billionaire “Shark Tank” celebrity and Dallas Mavericks owner, is getting attention again — this time for his Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., which seeks to reduce prescription drug prices for Americans. A new study finds Medicare could have saved $3.6 billion in 2020 if it had...
Letter to the editor: Saddened by Heinz Field name change
Regarding the Heinz Field name change: I grew up in Hazelwood, worked for many years Downtown, am an alumna of Duquesne University and have a “Pittsburgh Steelers” license plate frame (here in Patriot territory!). I married a New Englander and have lived in New England for many years, but Pittsburgh...
Letter to the editor: Why are protesters allowed to break the law?
It is time for transparency as to why we let states not enforce laws on the books. Why create new laws if state authorities are not willing to enforce current laws? The question is, why is the state of Maryland allowing picketing outside the homes of the Supreme Court justices,...
Editorial: New law is past due to protect vulnerable elderly
The highest duty of law is to protect the vulnerable. Perhaps the most important aspect of that is safeguarding those people from the individuals meant to do the protecting. Pennsylvania is living up to that responsibility with a new law signed by Gov. Tom Wolf this week. State Rep. Carrie...
