Opinion category, Page 379
Letter to the editor: Leftists destroying America
The Biden/Harris administration is rapidly destroying America as we know it with the full cooperation of congressional Democrats. President Biden started the process on Day 1 in office with a series of executive orders limiting domestic oil production. This resulted in a rapid spike in energy prices. We are now...
Laurels & lances: Stress, permits and cooperation
Laurel: To valuable advice. Tim Murphy understands something about stress. Not only is he a licensed psychologist who specializes in psychological trauma, but he is also a former congressman who spent 14 years in Washington and resigned in 2017 amid a sex scandal. On Monday, he spoke at Westmoreland County...
Peter Morici: Biden’s infrastructure bill is hardly ‘monumental’
America was once capable of transformational projects — the Erie Canal, transcontinental railroads and Interstate Highway System. President Joe Biden says the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a “monumental step” that will create millions of jobs, but that’s quite an exaggeration. The American Society of Civil Engineers...
Letter to the editor: Property tax and rent relief available
Given the current economic times, with everything increasing in costs, let’s not forget that Pennsylvania offers a property tax/rent rebate program. It is open to all Pennsylvania homeowners and renters age 65 and over as well as all widows/widowers age 50 and over and to those disabled age 18 and...
Letter to the editor: Common sense should direct gun rules
OK, I own guns: rifle, pistols and an air rifle, kept locked up with safety devices on them. Most of the deadly shootings as of late were done with large-bullet-capacity rifles that could shoot large amounts of rounds in seconds. If you hunt, in most cases one or two shots...
Editorial: Workweek changes could be good for everyone
The five-day workweek is a concept that seems like it is knitted into the fabric of our culture. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s the shorthand for what it means to be in business or to have a job. Weekends are the time we have to ourselves,...
Letter to the editor: When will we wake up to climate reality?
I believe that there are very few of us who don’t understand that the climate crisis is now on our doorstep and, in many cases, has come crashing through, in the form of drought, fire, flood and famine. Just ask the folks in south Florida. And yet the Associated Press...
John Stossel: The cost of rent control
Rents have reached record highs. But have no fear, renters! In the Minnesota cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, progressives persuaded people to vote for rent control. That’ll punish those greedy landlords! Except, profits are what persuade builders to build things. When profits are high, other builders build. That’s what...
Letter to the editor: Keystone pipeline could transport water
I’m all for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This project was long overdue to help America solve an ongoing problem. Oil, not necessarily. If we engineer this properly, we can possibly bring water to the Midwest, West and Southwest. People don’t need gasoline to survive. Fresh water is...
Letter to the editor: Grateful for Lamb’s focus on real issues
With so many competing priorities in Washington and Harrisburg, we’ve been fortunate to have leadership here in the Pittsburgh area that hasn’t forgotten about the real issues that matter to our community. While the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate didn’t break his way, we’re glad that the rest of the...
Editorial: Businesses and trails should be partners, not rivals
What is it about bikes that causes such friction? There was the push and pull with former Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto that stamped him with the “Bike Lane Bill” moniker for many critics. Now you’ve got people squaring off in Export. Fights might make sense if you were talking about...
Letter to the editor: Hit piece on Mastriano yellow journalism
The Associated Press article “Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns” (May 29, TribLIVE) was subversive yellow journalism. It contained all the conventional sleights of journalistic hand. Doug Mastriano and campaign officials “ignored requests for comment” and rejected the Christian nationalist label, yet it was positioned as fact....
Letter to the editor: Prayer not enough to keep children safe
Gary Franks’ column “School prayer could stem mass shootings” (June 3, TribLIVE) was lacking. Back in the ’50s, children went to smaller schools that were located in the communities. Mothers generally didn’t work and were involved in the home and schools, PTA and community groups. The neighbors were involved with...
Jonah Goldberg: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Jan. 6 committee
We’re only two installments into the limited-run production of the Jan. 6 hearings, and so far, I think they’ve been great. But I also think they’ll leave almost everyone, except for me, unsatisfied. For many Democrats and Never Trumpers, the hope is — or was — that this would lead...
Editorial: Public events like airshow sell area
What is the point of throwing a large public event? It might seem like just a party, but a lot more is going on when you are talking about a big-budget, big-crowd event spread over days. It is advertising. It is marketing. It is economic development. And, yes, it’s a...
Tom Hogan: Is Pittsburgh going Krasner?
“Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in between,” political strategist James Carville once said. This quote usually irritates the good citizens of Pittsburgh, who dislike being put in the same category as what they view as the trash-talking, Eagles-loving, cheese-steak-eating barbarians from the east; they identify with the more...
Letter to the editor: Prisoners should be out cleaning up trash
Have you looked along our roads lately? Bottles, cans, paper everywhere. Why is this happening? Is it possible that prisoners could pick it up occasionally, since there are so many non- prisoners with very bad habits? Helen Hopkinson Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Inflation and the price of property in Pittsburgh
“Thou shalt not crucify mankind on a cross of Gold.” — William Jennings Bryan The feeding frenzy in the city of Pittsburgh over properties creates many people who cannot afford to buy or rent. What happens to those people? Do they move to places such as Wilkinsburg, or do they...
Letter to the editor: Creation vs. evolution
Since becoming a reborn Christian in 2014, I subscribe to “Answers in Genesis” and Creation Ministries. I recently attended Creation Ministries’ Creation 2022 Superconference in Myrtle Beach. I would suggest all lapsed Christians visit their websites. Here are a few of their comments: Marine fossils have been found on every...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s ‘working it out’ isn’t working
During the Democratic presidential debates some 20 months ago, when candidate Joe Biden was asked whether there was any place for fossils fuels, including coal and fracking, under a Biden administration he answered, “no.” He went on to say that he would “work it out” and “make sure it’s eliminated.”...
Letter to the editor: Ending our violent reality show
Decades ago, horror movies were fun. Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman were our friends. These monsters had families. Not long after one of them did his worst and was killed, the sons and spouses came of age and engaged in evil against the public. The mass shootings that have been...
Letter to the editor: Fracking under parks should be banned
Allegheny County Council is considering an ordinance that would ban fracking on or under county parks property. I hope Allegheny County residents will join me in supporting this ordinance. Here’s why. Fracking cannot be done safely. According to the the eighth edition of the Compendium of Fracking, fracking negatively impacts...
Tom Purcell: What my father wants most
My dad isn’t doing so well. His wife of 65 years and six kids could be doing better, too. He’ll be 89 in July and his body is showing its age. His legs don’t work so well due to stenosis of the spine, plus he’s been in and out of...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Donald Trump LOST the 2020 election!
It comes at the end. After his supporters march on the U.S. Capitol chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” after they breach police barricades, after they smash windows and climb through, after they chant “Hang Mike Pence” and erect a gallows for that purpose, after one of them yells, “White power!”...
Earl Baker: Pa. natural gas will save our European allies
The impacts of Putin’s bungled war in Ukraine have been severe and reach far beyond the borders of Eastern Europe. The world’s economy, energy supply and food markets have been upended by a conflict that has snowballed into a humanitarian disaster. For too long, our European allies have relied on...
