Opinion category, Page 526
Letter to the editor: Government shouldn’t pay our bills
In response to the op-ed from five mayors in Pennsylvania, “Our cities need the American Rescue Plan and we cannot wait” (Feb. 16, TribLIVE): If each of our districts can’t find a way to balance our books, how do you expect our neighbors in another municipality, city or state are...
Letter to the editor: Republican Party needs to return to roots
I have been a member of the Republican Party for many years and I have been glad to support the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. and George W. Bush, and locally William R. Davis and Dick Thornburgh. But the party has been taken over by a...
Letter to the editor: Another good vaccine experience
I would like to add comments to Sharon Campomizzi’s letter “Vaccination process positive” (Feb. 28, TribLIVE). My husband and I also had a good experience at St. Barbara Catholic Church in Harrison City. This clinic was sponsored by Bushy Run Pharmacy, and its employees were there volunteering. Not only was...
Letter to the editor: Smoking marijuana detrimental to health
I am very concerned with the national and state governments’ trend to legalize marijuana for recreational use for the purpose of the governments’ insatiable need for tax revenue. Our governor and lieutenant governor, along with some legislators from both parties, are proposing to do just that. My concerns are scientific,...
Letter to the editor: Silent majority must speak up
As we enter a new political era, I have a few thoughts as to what brought it about and what the results of it may be. Early last summer we began to see our cities in flames and violence across our country. Our history was being erased as everyone from...
Letter to the editor: Kudos to Chew, Kertes for holding Wolf accountable
After reading the article “Westmoreland County gets fewer covid vaccine doses than smaller counties; talks begin about regional health department” (Feb. 26, TribLIVE), I’d like to give a big thank-you to Republican commissioners Doug Chew and Sean Kertes for calling out the Wolf administration on its failure to get vaccines...
Letter to the editor: Our politically correct dinner tables
Liberalism always achieves the opposite of its stated intent. Proof is ever more government spending that yields less in return to taxpayers. This also is true for their politically correct, racial sensitivity ruse in terms of the “fairness and diversity” they claim to seek. Consider your pantry and grocery store...
Letter to the editor: We’ll pay price for turning away from God
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton need to be silenced. Oh boy, now someone (Democrats) will say I encourage doing them physical harm. No: To be clear, they need to move on, away from their hate-fueled pursuit of President Donald Trump, allowing him to live his life like any...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Puzzling politics surround Biden’s American Rescue Plan
Now we know what “quid pro quo” looks like. After the $1.9 trillion tax cut that favored Americans in the top 20 percent income bracket during the Trump administration, the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan spends most of its money on middle-class and lower-income American families and local...
Sounding off: Retail workers, not teachers, should get vaccines
How disgusting, but not surprising, that teachers are jumping the line to get covid vaccinations. The deceptive rationale that our kiss-up governor is using is that the teachers will only be given the newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Why isn’t this vaccine being given to those who are more...
Letter to the editor: More signs for Trump supporters
All the President Trump supporters who won’t take down their signs should put Pirates, Penguins and Steelers signs in their yards, too. They all lost, including Trump. Get over it! Kirk G. Blum Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Maybe Reschenthaler should move
Is anyone really surprised that President Trump’s administration had no plan for distributing the covid-19 vaccine? After all, he had Jared Kushner in charge of the covid-19 task force. A person with an MBA knows more than a doctor that specializes in infectious diseases, doesn’t he? Dr. Anthony Fauci only...
Editorial: The day the schools closed down
It was supposed to be just 10 days. That was where it all started March 13, 2020. School superintendents across Pennsylvania had met in a teleconference with then-state Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera that morning about how to move forward as the coronavirus pandemic was going from something happening in...
Letter to the editor: Wolf should reduce spending, not hike taxes
Gov. Tom Wolf’s term will end in January 2023. Last month, Wolf proposed the largest income tax increase in Pennsylvania history, from 3.07% to 4.49%, along with billions in new government spending programs. If you live in the city of Pittsburgh, your local earned income tax rate is already 3%;...
Letter to the editor: Biden failing at unifying, battling covid
After his inauguration, President Biden told us we were a nation at war, and in order to win, we must unify the country and implement his strategic plan to defeat the enemy, covid-19. He then proceeded to (partial listing): stop the Keystone XL pipeline; weaken our border security; stop deporting...
John Stossel: Government getting in way of vaccine distribution
The vaccine rollout crawls forward. Most of us will spend weeks, or months, waiting. Great Britain did better. As of today, one-third of the English already are vaccinated, twice as many as in America. Why? A big reason is that our government decided to rigidly follow its regimen for the...
Mona Charen: Covid-19’s large non-surprise
“A Covid Mystery,” proclaimed a New York Times newsletter. “Why has the death toll been relatively low across much of Africa and Asia?” Like a know-it-all kid in seventh grade, I thought: “Call on me! I know this!” and clicked on the item. But to my surprise, the account that...
Jonah Goldberg: How long will President Biden remain immune to satire?
There’s a difference between saying something can’t be done and recognizing that you can’t do it. For instance, I can’t run a marathon — at least not without some profound lifestyle changes. But that doesn’t mean marathons can’t be run. Happens all the time, just not by me. Likewise, when...
Letter to the editor: Caring pharmacist steps up to plate
I thought your front-page article “Westmoreland pharmacist ‘absolutely’ wants to play bigger role in doling out covid vaccine” (Feb. 22, TribLIVE) was well written. Ed Christofano, owner of Hayden’s Pharmacy, is a gentleman that has stepped up to the plate and hit a home run for Southwestern Pennsylvania, which has...
Letter to the editor: Biden must take blame for everything, just as Trump did
The left adopted a policy of blaming President Trump for every bad thing that happened when he was in office. The same standard should apply to President Biden, especially his disastrous covid-19 vaccine distribution. Bad weather caused delays in the distribution of the vaccine. The manufacturers didn’t increase production. The...
Letter to the editor: Accusations against military dangerous
On Feb. 17 on CNN, President Biden spoke about “the impact of former military, former police officers, on the growth of white supremacy.” In his position as commander in chief, this is an attack on the people who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms. It began earlier with the...
Lori Falce: Read all about zombie vacuums
“A Dyson Sphere Could Bring Humans Back from the Dead, Researchers Say.” OK, that might be the most startling headline I have ever read. It popped up on my smartphone. I did a double take and obviously I clicked, curious about how my vacuum is going to create zombies. News...
Letter to the editor: Environmental concerns in South Huntingdon
Robindale Energy is developing a Government Financed Construction Contract (GFCC) in South Huntingdon (“Air, water concerns voiced over proposed South Huntingdon coal refuse reclamation,” Feb. 5, TribLIVE). I live downstream of the site. At first, it sounded like a good idea: industry taking advantage of a government program to remove...
Letter to the editor: Toomey should be thrown out of Republican Party
The recent decision by the Pennsylvania GOP to simply rebuke Sen. Pat Toomey (“Censure of Sen. Toomey for Trump impeachment vote falls short,” March 2, TribLIVE) for betraying his constituents by voting to impeach former President Trump was appalling. What the hell are they thinking? More than half of the...
Laurels & lances: Dancing, learning, connecting
Laurel: To ending the week on a high note. Everyone is excited when the school week comes to an end. But at Kiski Area Upper Elementary, one kid is spreading his enthusiasm to others. Cash “Big Sauce” Malobicky is a sixth grader who loves to dance. He might have been...
