Opinion category, Page 520
Letter to the editor: Voting for Biden was critical mistake
I would like to start off by saying thank you to the people who voted for Joe Biden. Smart move. In the first few months he’s been in office, he’s managed to lose thousands of jobs by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline. I guess you were too busy worrying about...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Victims of this war don’t get a wall
“This is a violent civilization — if civilization’s where I am.” — Gil Scott-Heron, “Gun” • • • Alexis Knutson doesn’t want to see her friend reduced. That friend, she told The New York Times, “had the biggest, brightest smile. She always just had these dimples that, especially when she...
Pat Buchanan: Autocracy vs. democracy or China vs. America?
“I’ve known Xi Jinping for a long time. … He doesn’t have a democratic — with a small ‘d’ — bone in his body,” said Joe Biden in his first press conference as president. “He’s one of the guys, like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, who thinks that autocracy is the...
Terri Friedline and Ameya Pawar: Another New Deal key for Biden’s vision
To carry out his $3 trillion infrastructure plan and ensure its success, President Joe Biden needs to embrace his inner Franklin D. Roosevelt and forge a 21st-century New Deal. Biden’s desire to establish a consequential legacy is setting the stage for federal investments in public infrastructure that have not been...
Joseph Otis Minott: Biden must prioritize health of Pa. citizens
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on pace to propose new standards for methane and other volatile organic compound (VOC) pollution from oil and gas facilities by September 2021. Next month, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., will attempt to use the 1996 Congressional Review Act to undo the Trump administration’s...
Letter to the editor: Did you give your Trump stimulus check back?
Question for letter-writer Cheryl Rossetti (“Disagree with election results? Return stimulus checks,” March 24, TribLIVE): We the disgruntled deplorables want to know, did you keep the $600 check President Trump approved? Being a morally superior Democrat, you gave it back right? If you didn’t, step away from your pedestal please....
Letter to the editor: Thankful for compassionate leaders
The American people always have looked to their presidents to offer comfort and solace when the nation has suffered a grievous loss. We saw it in President Reagan in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster; we saw it in President Obama after churchgoers were slaughtered by a white supremacist in...
Editorial: Covid testing in jail is better late than never
Allegheny County Jail is making a smart move. Starting April 12, any newly incarcerated individuals will be tested for covid-19. A negative test will be required before being placed in general population. Refusing a test will mean quarantine. It’s a move that seems obvious. People have been tested before they...
Letter to the editor: Where is the covid finish line?
What are the metrics indicating a safe end to the covid-19 guidelines? Deaths, hospitalizations and case numbers are down. Natural immunity and immunizations are up. When is it safe to stop wearing masks, social distancing, limiting health care facility visits, etc.? The public health experts have been and are in...
Tom Purcell: In DC, politics springs eternal
Springtime has arrived in Washington, D.C. The National Cherry Blossom festival is underway. Some 3,700 cherry trees, given to America by the Japanese in 1912, soon will be in full bloom. I lived in the D.C. area for nearly eight years and always looked forward to this time of year....
Eric Falk: Not all Westmoreland residents want mail-in voting eliminated
Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew’s statement before the Pennsylvania Senate committee on election integrity and reform is a classic case of starting with a valid point and then wildly overswinging to argue that no-excuse mail-in voting must be limited if not eliminated. He begins with the need to educate voters...
Tom O’Brien: Raises linked to filibuster death
Joe Biden did something no other president has. He extolled the virtue of unions and told workers that corporations do not have the right to prevent them from joining a union, and he did it on video. After four decades of U.S. labor productivity rises that have gone unrewarded with...
Letter to the editor: Hypocrisy of Newsome signature review
Californians have gathered more than the 1½ million signatures needed to recall Gov. Gavin Newsome from office. Isn’t it interesting that the Democrats all of a sudden want to scrutinize these signatures for discrepancies of any kind? Similar handwriting, color of pens used, proper addresses and other details. What hypocrisy!...
Letter to the editor: Americans could use the jobs held by immigrants
Letter-writer Matt Smith (“Immigration reform will rebuild our economy,” March 26, TribLIVE), can you tell me if the 70,000 undocumented immigrants working in essential roles in the state pay taxes to the IRS/U.S. government/Pennsylvania? Can you tell any unemployed American citizen where he or she can obtain an essential-role job?...
Editorial: A death in county prison is public information, in real time
Government often seems to have the same attitude toward transparency that children do toward report cards. When a kid gets a good grade, it is turned over promptly and with lots of fanfare. Look how good this is! Look at my gold star! Can I have cookie? When a kid...
Letter to the editor: Racism isn’t automatically to blame
Kudos to the Tribune-Review for publishing Mona Charen’s column “Covid-19’s large non-surprise” (March 12, TribLIVE). In case you missed it, there is a well-known correlation between obesity and covid-19 mortality. It also is well documented that obesity is more prevalent among Blacks than whites. Charen presented the novel theory that...
Letter to the editor: E-Verify jobs process would help end border crisis
Regarding Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s support for the American Dream and Promise Act (“Peduto endorses bill to provide pathway to citizenship for ‘dreamers’,” March 15, TribLIVE): He’s conveniently confused on his facts. Peduto compares the deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACAs) to Pittsburgh’s immigrants who “settled here seeking to build...
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland commissioners not to blame for lack of vaccines
I’ve read a lot of misleading letters recently trying to pin blame on Republicans for a lack of vaccines getting to Westmoreland County. It smells like an organized effort from Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s Harrisburg propaganda machine to deflect blame for his fumbling of the vaccine distribution in the commonwealth....
Letter to the editor: Solution for mail-in voting issues
Homebound, nursing home or military should be the only reason to vote by mail. If voting absentee, a request and reason should be necessary. If you can go to Walmart, Home Depot or the grocery store, or play the lottery, then you can vote in person. All absentee ballots are...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 29
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 29....
Editorial cartoons for the week of March 29
Editorial cartoons for the week of March 29....
S.E. Cupp: Politics aside, humane plan needed now for migrant children alone on the border
After facing weeks of pressure from Republicans and Democrats, the Biden administration finally released photos and videos from inside two Texas detention centers where unaccompanied children are being held. An ABC News report of the government-sanctioned video describes the conditions as “crowded but orderly,” and boasts of shelves “stocked with...
Letter to the editor: End of the virus or end of Trump letters?
Which happens first? The covid-19 pandemic ends and life returns to “normal,” or tear-stained letters from pouty President Trump fans disappear from the pages of this newspaper. My money is on the virus. Dan Skantar North Fayette...
Letter to the editor: Giving stimulus check back to government
In response to Cheryl Rossetti’s letter “Disagree with election results? Return stimulus checks”): This is a great idea to try to “pour money back into the Treasury.” I’m ready to lick the stamp to send it back. Before doing that, however, I propose the following caveats: In return for my...
Letter to the editor: Learn, take action on anti-Asian racism
Given the rise over the past year in anti-Asian racism and racial incidents, here are just a few resources for learning and action. If you experience bullying, intimidation or violence related to being Asian and/or Pacific Islander (API), go to stopaapihate.org and standagainsthatred.org/ report to report the incident so that there...
