Opinion category, Page 531
Letter to the editor: Hope for Alzheimer’s
Today more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and more than 16 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with this disease. Approximately 5% of those Americans have younger onset. Sara, the co-author of this letter, has younger onset and is just 56. She has just started...
Editorial: Westmoreland County Transit steps up with free rides to vaccinations
When it comes to problem-solving, you can’t just look for the obvious answer and stop there. You can’t jack up the car without a spare tire to fix the flat. You can’t go to the moon without a way to get back. You can’t put a cast on a broken...
Letter to the editor: Think of others — wear a mask, get the vaccine
I want to applaud Lori Falce’s column “Why did I get the vaccine?”. I think it could be used by President Biden to head his “unity” mantra for all Americans. Well done, Lori! It reminded me of a recent conversation I had with my BFF. I was telling her that...
Letter to the editor: 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...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Nation’s grief not Democrat or Republican
If you had any doubts that words matter, Joe Biden’s speech last week should put that to rest. Marking the deaths of over 500,000 of our fellow Americans from the coronavirus, Biden bared his heart and spoke of the tragic losses of his first wife and his daughter and later...
Editorial: Real progress at nursing homes is a welcome covid success story
There are more than 700 nursing homes in Pennsylvania. More than 88,000 people, mostly older individuals, live there — whether for the long term or a short stay. For the last year, those facilities have been under nervous pressure as seniors and those with preexisting medical conditions like diabetes and...
Sounding off: No more money for public schools
Here we go again with Gov. Tom Wolf’s rhetoric on more funding for public schools. Test scores prove that throwing more money at schools does nothing to improve our children’s education. Teachers unions are the problem. They strike often and mostly for the same two reasons: more money and more...
Letter to the editor: Trump signs a reminder of loss
I quite enjoyed the letter from Carol Deverse telling us, “hell no,” she was not taking down her Trump sign (“Trump signs are here to stay,” Feb. 13, TribLIVE). And I can understand her attitude. After all, the Democrats do have the presidency, the House of Representatives and the Senate....
Letter to the editor: Don’t Republicans believe in democracy?
We are living in precarious times. It appears that one political party, the Republicans, no longer believe in democracy. They are trying to restrict our voting rights (11 bills in Pennsylvania), plus expand gerrymandering to include judges. A select group of men suggested nullifying the last election. They support people...
Letter to the editor: Both Peduto, Tomlin need to go
Pittsburgh needs Mayor Bill Peduto for a third term as mayor like we need Mike Tomlin as head coach for the Steelers. It’s time for both to take a hike down Retirement Road. The best thing for Pittsburgh is to get a person who cares for the city and the...
Letter to the editor: Why are people still afraid of Trump?
With a smile I read the long essays in the Tribune-Review. Did someone forget to tell you that Donald Trump is no longer president? He can’t do anything, but you keep writing about him and how awful he is. What are you afraid of? The Republicans no longer control Congress,...
Letter to the editor: Love letter to new gun owners
The past few years have been quite a roller coaster for all of us. We’ve had a pandemic, tumultuous elections, riots of all shapes and sizes, and in the cases of some of us, an assault on our very livelihoods. I’m sure you new gun owners have various views and...
John Stossel: Environmental groups not helping the rhinos
Today’s environmental activists are so hostile to capitalism that they end up killing animals they want to protect. Like the African rhinoceros. Poachers kill them to get their horns, which can sell for as much as $300,000. Poachers mostly sell in China and Vietnam, to people who carve them into...
Mona Charen: Both sides need to cancel cancel culture
The term “cancel culture” is rapidly losing its meaning. Just as Donald Trump adopted the term “fake news,” which originally referred to the misinformation flow that was a crucial part of his 2016 campaign, and was used to disparage his opponents and critics (or even just factual reporters) in the...
Chris Baxter: Why Spotlight PA is spending a year investigating Pennsylvania’s redistricting process
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and WITF Public Media. In 2021, a handful of politicians will wield power over one of the most consequential and overlooked aspects of our democracy: redrawing Pennsylvania’s political districts. They can...
Letter to the editor: We’ll need $15/hour to buy Big Macs
Gov. Tom Wolf and President Biden want to raise the miniumum wage to $15 an hour. Heads-up: Get ready for the $10 Big Mac, served to you by a robot. Just sayin’. Joseph F. Marmo Cheswick...
Letter to the editor: Thanks to GOP senators who did right thing
To the Republican senators, We all watched and listened during the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump. I believe the evidence was quite clear that Trump incited the riot that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6. You Republican senators who voted to acquit have failed to live...
Letter to the editor: We need a president with a ‘Robin Hood’ agenda
I am looking for a 2024 candidate for U.S. president who will run on a “Robin Hood” agenda that is similar to Huey Long’s “Share the Wealth” agenda. The platform/agenda would include a one-time “national wealth tax” of 20% on all individuals who have a net wealth and net worth...
Letter to the editor: Let’s not forget beautiful AK memories
The changing of the times in the Alle-Kiski area has been surreal, with many memories that are golden but not forgotten. Shopping has changed from the hustle and bustle of the small-town “downtown days.” As a child, making our family trip to the Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney stores in...
Lori Falce: Weather or not, here it comes
Unpredictable as the weather. It’s a phrase used often, a kind of mild indictment of meteorologists everywhere. It tells us that nothing is really predictable. Just like the clouds and the rain, anything on the horizon can be blown off course by a little wind or melted away by a...
Letter to the editor: Maybe less is more when salting roads
It seems as though every winter if there is more than a few inches of snow, we run into a salt shortage in North Huntingdon (“North Huntingdon running low on road salt; back order never filled,” Feb. 17, TribLIVE). At a cost of $15,000 per layer and most likely overtime...
Letter to the editor: Democrats no longer for working class
I feel that today’s Democratic Party is no longer the party of the working class like it used to be. Now it seems to be the party of the rich, which includes big tech, Wall Street and celebrities. It also includes government employees, mainstream media and certain “identity” groups. I...
Laurels & lances: Parades, pranks and play
Laurel: To the pluck of the Irish. Doesn’t it seem like forever since there has been any kind of real community celebration? For a year, those simple gatherings that bring people together have fallen like dominoes in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. But lockdowns aren’t going to stop Lower...
S.E. Cupp: GOP knows exactly where it’s headed
It’s that time of year again. This week, CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Conference founded in 1974 — will lay siege to Orlando instead of Washington, D.C., amid a global pandemic that has, as of this week, taken a staggering 500,000 American lives. Hopes of mask-wearing and social distancing...
Editorial: Standardized tests in a pandemic school year are folly
Every year, Pennsylvania kids face a battery of tests meant to determine just how well they have been educated in a variety of topics. All of the students from third grade through eighth grade take annual exams in math. They are tested on their reading comprehension and their writing skills....
