Opinion category, Page 528
Letter to the editor: Urge reps to support gun background check bill
Please encourage your federal representative to support House Resolution 8 this week in the U.S. House. HR 8 will close the background check loophole that allows gun buyers to bypass FBI background checks on firearm purchases not completed through a licensed dealer — including many transactions completed at gun shows....
Tom Purcell: Nuance better than canceling in these Looney times
Is the world finally coming to grips with the wrongs I endured as a child growing up in the 1970s? I came of age before 24-hour cable news channels sensationalized childhood abductions and made every parent in America terrified their kid was likely to become the next victim. We ’70s...
Samir Lakhani: Hygiene is a human right, not a luxury
A lot of my friends have joked: “It feels like all I did in 2020 was wash my hands!” All humor aside, it’s my hope that hand hygiene and washing has been reinvigorated and widely adopted as a primary defense against illness in this country. As I noted in my...
Letter to the editor: Why aren’t mask guidelines being enforced?
So I must be missing something. While school districts are struggling to get students back into schools, I’m seeing pictures in the Trib of athletes either with no masks or wearing them down around their necks. Have I missed a new state guideline? Jeanne Snyder Irwin...
Letter to the editor: Are we not in a free country any more?
All my life I thought we lived in the land of the free — not. How can you call this a free country when we’re told what flags we can fly, what language we can use, what statues we can let stand and what we can name our streets, parks,...
Letter to the editor: 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...
Editorial: Women military veterans have earned special recognition
March is Women’s History Month, which often means things that call attention to women and their contributions might be put in the spotlight for four short weeks — and then forgotten. A new Pennsylvania effort will keep women in the high beams for the whole year. The Pennsylvania Department of...
Letter to the editor: Nastiness and lies in politics
I am amazed at the amount of nastiness and vindictiveness in politics. The politicians are supposed to work together and compromise and come up with ideas to make America better for the people who elected them. Instead, they just fight with each other over power. The television media seems to...
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland leaders failing us
If you qualify under Phase 1A for getting a covid-19 vaccination and are not a health care worker, you likely have been trying frantically to find a vaccination appointment. This can be especially frustrating for those over 75 years of age or 65 with high-risk factors, having spent the last...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 8
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of March 8....
Editorial cartoons for the week of March 8
Editorial cartoons for the week of March 8....
S.E. Cupp: Elite pedigrees are normal for the right’s phony populists
If you were surprised to learn there are scores of secret diners dotting the American heartland, where teachers and construction workers sit down to have regular-Joe conversations over bacon and eggs about the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,...
Letter to the editor: Don’t forget other vaccinations for kids
The covid virus is terrible and everyone is concerned about getting the vaccination, but please don’t forget to get your children vaccinated for chicken pox, measles, polio, etc. Kids can suffer and die from some of these diseases. Betty N. Harp Penn Township, Westmoreland County...
Letter to the editor: We don’t need feel-good legislation
Regarding the article “State university program would offer free education in exchange for staying in Pennsylvania”: First, Sam Bohen, you make me sad! Are you expecting Pennsylvania taxpayers to feel sorry for you because you worked your poor little fingers to the bone over four years? Get real! The $40,000...
Letter to the editor: Where have all the facts gone?
Ahhh, facts, where have you gone? Remember those “weapons” you used to solve a disagreement with your buddies? Remember back in the day, when a disagreement would lead to friendly discussion, then (usually) lead to an acceptable resolution. Imagine, no shootings, stabbings, fistfights, persecution or social shaming of anyone. Imagine...
Letter to the editor: Real causes of problems in Texas
I am so grateful that Pennsylvania has a governor like Tom Wolf rather than someone in Texas like Gov. Greg Abbott or past governor Rick Perry. First Abbott refused to follow CDC guidelines, and more Texans than needed died. Now more Texans died unnecessarily due to a lack of electricity...
Letter to the editor: Generosity enables Bethlehem Project to keep helping
We would like to recognize the residents of Greensburg and the surrounding area, especially the readers of the Tribune-Review. When readers learned through a story in the Trib that the need for help from the Bethlehem Project, a nonprofit that provides rental and emergency housing assistance to renters in our...
Letter to the editor: Religion, politics should bind, not divide, us
I recently read an interesting article that said there are so many things that divide us, such as religion, politics, history and nationalism. I had to ponder this for a moment because something didn’t feel or sound right. I should be able to be proud of my religion, my political...
Editorial: Keep on rolling up sleeves for the vaccines to beat down covid
The coronavirus pandemic has been a yearlong war. There have been front lines and battle plans, equipment deployed and troops activated. There have been far too many casualties. It has been approached as a national security issue because that is exactly what it is — a catastrophic event that threatens...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Leaders should be leading
Texans like to say “Everything is bigger in Texas,” and lately it looks like mistakes are bigger there, too. Many people love Texans’ boisterous exceptionalism, but there is nothing to love about the way their leaders have been letting them down. Gov. Greg Abbott caught the whole country by surprise...
Editorial: Total testing for covid at Allegheny County Jail is worthy goal
Jails check for a lot of things when processing someone who has been arrested. Suspects are checked for weapons or other potentially dangerous items. They are checked for contraband such as drugs. They are photographed, fingerprinted, patted down and looked over. During the course of a stay in jail, there...
Sounding off: Too much pork in American Rescue Plan
The 591-page American Rescue Plan is full of “pork.” Supposedly it is to fight and provide covid relief, but the bill instead is designed to cure social inequities. Keep in mind that these amounts are in addition to what is already budgeted for in these areas. Even programs directly addressing...
Paul Petrick: Let’s celebrate vice presidents, too
As another February fades into history, the month’s historical significance to the American presidency remains incandescent. The birth month to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, February exhibits the least number of days and greatest number of great presidents. This correlation of presidential preeminence and birth date makes one...
Letter to the editor: Abortion in a civilized country
In the USA, we are civilized. Leave your dog outside in inclement weather, and you could have it taken away, be fined and possibly face jail time. Animal cruelty is against the law. It is uncivilized. Physically or mentally abuse your child, and you could have your child taken away,...
Letter to the editor: Trump must face consequences
It is imperative that President Trump suffer the criminal charges he may face. The proof of him inciting the crowd to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and telling them he’ll meet them there, is on tape. The travesty is that aside from the radical fringe groups, most of...
