Opinion category, Page 515
Letter to the editor: We need competent leaders for vaccine rollout
Today I write to you not as a social worker or as a front-line worker. Today I write to you as a granddaughter who feels powerless in helping her vulnerable grandparents secure appointments for covid vaccines. I am a proud Excela Health employee, and my employer ensured I had quick...
Letter to the editor: We need competent leaders for vaccine rollout
Today I write to you not as a social worker or as a front-line worker. Today I write to you as a granddaughter who feels powerless in helping her vulnerable grandparents secure appointments for covid vaccines. I am a proud Excela Health employee, and my employer ensured I had quick...
Letter to the editor: Producing more vaccines
Come on, now: The president and Congress have the power to get hundreds of millions of the covid-19 vaccine produced faster, but they haven’t, contributing to more deaths. Intellectual property regulations allow Pfizer and Moderna to keep their vaccine processes to themselves. They’re both working at capacity. Well, get them...
Editorial: The region’s airports could fare well as post-pandemic air travel rises
Air travel is getting off the ground again. A year of coronavirus pandemic restrictions and precautions made airports into ghost towns. The 777.9 million people annually who had been taking off their shoes and separating their laptops from their carry-ons at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints slowed to a trickle. On...
Letter to the editor: Look at reasons for reps’ votes before forming opinion
In response to Teri Krause’s letter “Monitor reps’ votes before casting yours” (April 1, TribLIVE): I would suggest that she read the changes made to the Violence Against Women Act, and maybe then she would realize why people would vote against it. It’s obvious the eight GOP representatives she mentions...
Letter to the editor: Biden voters, look what you’ve done
Let me get this straight. Voters who actually have jobs and actually pay taxes voted for this president. Why didn’t you just take most of your money and give it to charity instead of taking the rest of us with you? Now President Biden is going to seriously raise taxes...
Letter to the editor: All the king’s men
President Trump: Paid $750 in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017 and zero in past years. There’s either something seriously wrong with the U.S. tax code or some big-time corruption happened. We’ll see. William Barr: The attorney general is supposed to be the people’s attorney general and not the president’s...
Tom Purcell: The value of organized religion to a representative republic
Fewer Americans are attending traditional church services. Fewer are attending Catholic schools, too. According to Gallup, the number of Americans who belong to a church, synagogue or mosque continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup’s eight-decade trend. And thanks to the covid pandemic,...
Letter to the editor: Would a county health department help?
There have been a number of letters to the editor regarding the need for a Westmoreland County health department. Other than help to get the covid-19 vaccines, I have not read anything about what other functions the department would provide. I don’t think authorizing and building a new county agency,...
Letter to the editor: What gun control is really about
Letter-writer Jonathan Love (“Urge reps to support gun background check bill,” March 9, TribLIVE) makes it naive to sound so petty. All gun bills are a disaster. In my opinion, anti-gunners aren’t really worried about gun violence, and these small bills are nothing but steppingstones to complete the disarming of...
Editorial: The baffling delay in fixing the state’s unemployment system
In 2020, Pennsylvania — like the rest of the country — experienced an employment crisis. When the coronavirus pandemic hit and many businesses shut down or scaled back operations to comply with mandated restrictions, jobs were the first casualty. By May, about 2 million Pennsylvanians were out of work. By...
Letter to the editor: PETA’s commonsense solutions
In his column “In D.C., politics springs eternal” (March 29, TribLIVE), Tom Purcell mentioned a suggestion that PETA made more than 20 years ago to park officials in Washington, D.C.: Humanely trap the three beavers who were chewing on cherry trees and release them together in a more suitable natural...
Letter to the editor: Threats to democracy
I was disappointed to read the Associated Press article “Democrats make case for voting overhaul” (March 27, TribLIVE). In my opinion, it was just a lengthy and biased repetition of Democratic talking points. Democrats criticize the recent Georgia election rules law, calling it an attack on democracy and a suppression...
Letter to the editor: Vaccine refusal is concerning
It is encouraging that the number of vaccinations in Westmoreland County is on the rise. However, I am concerned about the large number of people who are reluctant or have even refused to be vaccinated. As an example, I recently heard a nurse discussing why she was not getting vaccinated,...
Editorial cartoons for the week of April 12
Editorial cartoons for the week of April 12....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 12
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 12....
Letter to the editor: Keep Trump signs up
Keep your Trump signs and flags up to let people know you didn’t vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Rick Tatano Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Thankful for teacher vaccinations
By now, educators and support professionals across Pennsylvania have been given the opportunity to receive the covid-19 vaccine through a special initiative to get school employees vaccinated. I want to thank the Joint Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force, Gov. Tom Wolf and supportive policymakers and state officials for making this happen...
Letter to the editor: Healthy marijuana users?
In response to Bob Serena’s letter "Decades of marijuana use haven`t harmed health” (April 2, TribLIVE): A study I’ve read about reported that not all marijuana users move on to more addictive drugs, but most, if not all, addicts that have used hard drugs started with marijuana. He stated that...
Letter to the editor: Voter suppression must stop
Commissioner Doug Chew does not think you, the voter in Westmoreland County, want a mail-in ballot option (“Westmoreland commissioner says county voters want end to no-excuse mail-in ballots, another disputes that,” March 23, TribLIVE). He appeared before the Senate committee on election integrity and reform, laying blame on everyone but...
Letter to the editor: Racism isn’t the problem it used to be
As a white person close to 60, I am thoroughly disgusted by the disingenuous actions of the Democrats and the mainstream media. The media proclaims systematic racism and white privilege. I am certain that in the past systemic racism existed. You need not look further than our history of slavery...
Letter to the editor: Biden and high gas prices
Dear Mr. President: Did I hear you correctly in your press conference ? You were hired to “solve problems.” I have a problem that you created. I just paid over $3/gallon filling up my tank , and it isn’t getting any cheaper. I noticed this trend after you killed the...
Letter to the editor: We’re a spoiled country
I have a few things to get off my chest. First, I hope all you people who voted for President Biden are happy that gas is up 50 cents a gallon since he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, and that illegals are pouring into our country. Second, striking workers...
Letter to the editor: We’re not better under Biden
Wealthy, I am not, but I try to give some of my hard-earned (and taxed) money to several organizations that help veterans. Many veterans are in trouble, and many are homeless. Now the Biden administration is using millions of taxpayer dollars to put up in hotels people who come to...
Letter to the editor: No answers in Biden’s press conference
On March 25, I watched two presidents have news conferences. Pittsburgh Steelers President Art Rooney II had one that lasted 20 minutes, and he answered 15 questions coherently from all reporters in the room about the Steelers. President Biden had one that lasted over an hour, and he took 10...
