Opinion category, Page 451
Letter to the editor: College may not be good investment
Many parents are finding out that spending $30,000 to $60,000 a year for a college degree, with classes taught by $100,000-plus-a-year professors, that results in their kids getting a job that only pays $20,000 a year after they graduate, is not a good investment. Then the parents find out they...
Letter to the editor: Keep the Steelers on the Sports page
Way to go, Tribune- Review. Printing a picture on Page 1 of the Steelers coach who makes $8 million a year is much more important than the trying times we are all going through now! Give us a break, please; that is what the Sports page is for. I never understood...
Letter to the editor: Democrats are killing comedy
Kliph Nesteroff’s commentary “Cancel culture has always been a problem for comedy” is, ironically, laughable. To equate the almost universal lockdown of any joke that doesn’t pass leftist muster with comedians of the past not being able to swear is ludicrous. Liberal hero Dave Chappelle got away with it. Name...
Letter to the editor: Taxpayers deserve accountability
I read the article “Pa. lawmakers spend millions of tax dollars on private lawyers but often don’t reveal why” with sadness and frustration. It appears the system is set up to encourage corruption. Effective government must have transparency and accountability. We must challenge the practice of redacting. Pennsylvania voters deserve...
Lori Falce: Penn State penance, 10 years later
On Nov. 5, 2011, retired Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested for child sex abuse after a statewide investigating grand jury indicted him on 40 counts of various crimes. More would be added later. It was a moment that indelibly stained the university and fractured the alumni community...
Letter to the editor: I want my carbon cash back!
As the Senate wrestles with the budget reconciliation legislation that contains both social safety net and climate change segments, it appears that the Clean Energy Power Plan (CEPP) that was to be the primary answer to the climate crisis will not make the cut. But here’s the thing — we...
Letter to the editor: Pelosi understands her role as protector
Regarding David Scandrol’s letter “Has Pelosi read Constitution?”: Nancy Pelosi has read the Constitution and fully understands her role as speaker of the House in protecting our republic. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”? I’ll show you a man with over 65 years of deception, failed...
Laurels & lances: Election, sportsmanship and honor
Laurel: To having your say. The people turned out and made their wishes known. Because of that, there will be a lot of change in the area come January. Pittsburgh will have its first Black mayor in Democrat Ed Gainey, something not exactly surprising as the city hasn’t seated a...
Letter to the editor: Always bad news from Pittsburgh airport
Regarding the article “Pittsburgh airport’s $1.4B construction project cleared for takeoff; completion delayed to 2025” (Oct. 14, TribLIVE): Send in the clowns! Nothing generates more bad news stories than the Pittsburgh airport. I thought the correct evolutionary model was to reward good behavior and punish bad. Looks like the “visionaries”...
Letter to the editor: Great time to pull the plug
Anyone that dumped their dish or any other alternative paid television subscription because of high cost and selective programming may have installed their own antennae in order to watch local TV. Pittsburgh news programming coverage is time-competitive, with each station supplying repetitive news in order to fill the time allotted....
Letter to the editor: We must help creatives get out of their slump
Did you ever lament the loss of something trendy? You were digging something, life was grand, then … poof? If you care what’s surfacing in my portents, it is the downfall of the gig economy that’s making old little me … terribly blue. A fleet-footed happy job market, adored by...
Letter to the editor: Results of lowering expectations
When you lower your expectations, here are just a few of the results. A president who cannot complete a sentence that makes any sense or has any real meaning. A president who thinks spending 3, 4 or 5 trillion dollars doesn’t cost a single red penny. A very neat trick....
Editorial: Wolf vaccine days off not his to give
Every elected official has good causes they would like to pursue and good ideas to get off the ground that are restrained by two things. First, you need the money to accomplish the task. Second, doing so has to be part of your job. Gov. Tom Wolf has problems with...
Letter to the editor: Why public questions vaccines
In the article “ ‘You can’t fix it with facts’: Doctors share patients’ excuses for covid vaccine refusal” (Oct. 17, TribLIVE), you ask, “How can a patient be in disbelief over the coronavirus, pandemic and vaccine …?” One answer is later in the article, which states the following: “Some have...
Jonah Goldberg: ‘Let’s go Brandon’ is what passes for oratory now. Be worried.
The first thing to know about the “Let’s go Brandon” thing is: It’s funny. Or at least, it started out funny. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s how it started. In September, largely or even entirely in response to the Biden administration’s botched handling of our...
Letter to the editor: Mothers should make education decisions
Mothers are the best ones to decide what their children are taught. Period. Children are not government property. I don’t want my great-great-grandchildren to be used as pawns in a chess game. Frank Ernhart Greensburg...
Letter to the editor: A message to Democratic leaders
An open letter to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bob Casey and Conor Lamb: Please resign. All of you. Plus Pete Buttigieg, AOC, Ilhan Omar, “The Squad,” etc. Fire Merrick Garland. Fire Christopher Wray. Investigate and prosecute Mark Zuckerberg for election interference. No new taxes. No more...
Editorial: Is Westmoreland Co. election confidence just spin?
Last week, Westmoreland County officials were spouting optimism and confidence when it came to the general election. “We’re not getting the same calls and don’t have the same concerns we did,” Commissioner Sean Kertes said. “Overall, our customer service has increased, and it just shows we now have the proper...
Letter to the editor: Battling over race at Gateway
The Gateway School District’s racial achievement gap is in every school building and has been just about every year for at least 16 years. Bottom of the barrel in Allegheny County. To change this, five of nine school board members voted this spring to hire an equity director. Another board...
Pat Buchanan: Is failure baked in the cake at Glasgow?
“Colossal stakes as leaders meet to talk climate,” ran the headline. “The last best hope,” ran the subhead, which turned out to be a quote from President Biden’s climate czar John Kerry. But these alarmist headings were not atop an editorial. They topped the lead news story in Sunday’s New...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: America’s nightmare
This is a column about nightmares. On Jan. 28, 1856, Margaret Garner slit the throat of her 2-year-old daughter, killing her. Slave catchers had closed in on the Cincinnati safe house to which Garner, an African American woman, had fled, seeking freedom. She tried to kill two of her other...
Editorial: This election matters
Anyone who paid attention to the 2020 presidential elections can tell you that more people voted in that race than have ever voted before. Nationwide there were more than 158 million ballots cast. In Pennsylvania alone, more than 9 million people were registered and 76.5% showed up at the polls...
Dr. Denise Johnson: Urgent need to expand syringe services programs in Pa.
Drug overdose deaths remain one of the greatest health crises facing our state, with drug overdoses increasing in 46 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties in 2020. At the same time, Pennsylvania is facing the related public health challenge of rising rates of HIV and Hepatitis C. Our families and communities are...
Letter to the editor: Rethinking the supply chain
America. Containers at ports across the country, sitting. Big box stores unable to receive the goods from faraway places for us American consumers to enjoy our holiday celebrations. Buy American, be patriotic. However, our spending patterns are inconsistent with this philosophy. What if Santa Claus wasn’t inflatable, made of plastic...
Letter to the editor: Pandemic pay essential for essential workers
The approval of federal covid-19 response dollars for Westmoreland Manor workers could not have come soon enough (“Pandemic bonuses approved for Westmoreland Manor staff,” Oct. 21, TribLIVE). There is a major short-staffing crisis across the entire nursing home industry right now. It is imperative that available federal dollars go to...
