Opinion category, Page 535
Editorial: Opening schools safely means everyone pitching in
When can schools open up? That has been the question on everyone’s minds for months. The coronavirus pandemic shut all Pennsylvania schools in March 2020. Some reopened in the fall, but it was a very different experience than kids — or educators — usually handle while studying math or learning...
Letter to the editor: Stock market doing fine under Biden
Just a quick fact-check to Raymond Smith’s letter “Missing Trump already” (Feb. 2, TribLIVE): Smith stated that “the stock market decline during Biden’s first week cost me more than three times the price of my first house.” On Jan. 20, the day President Biden took office, the Dow Jones Industrial...
Letter to the editor: The law and order president
“Once your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. In days gone by, there were people who said to us: ‘You believe in incomprehensible, contradictory and impossible things because we have...
Letter to the editor: Tyranny can result when one party has all the power
Extremists from the right attacked our Capitol. Extremists from the left burned our cities and attacked our police. Over 60 million voters believe our election was fraudulent, and only 10% trust Congress. The majority of voters do not trust mainstream or social media. Just where is our land of the...
Letter to the editor: Vaccine distribution plan shameful
As the pandemic keeps getting worse, so does the shame. Shame on the Pennsylvania Health Department for its vaccine rollout plans. Nobody giving the coronavirus vaccine has any vaccine to give. Web pages have been swamped with folks trying to register for a vaccination. Phone calls are going unanswered. My...
Tom Purcell: Biden, Social Security, my retirement and the wealthy
It’s February. It’s cold. To fend off the winter blahs, I dream of one day retiring to a warm beach, where I’ll stand in the surf, sipping beverages from glasses with little umbrellas in them. I spend hours using the Social Security Benefits Calculator to determine how much Social Security...
Pitt Med students: Give vaccine priority to smaller practices, pharmacies
We are a group of University of Pittsburgh medical students who are extremely concerned about vaccine distribution in the Pittsburgh community. It has come to our attention that vaccines are being sent only to large institutions such as health systems and retail pharmacies rather than the smaller, independent health practices...
Gene Barr: Pro-growth policies will move Pa.’s economy forward
Pennsylvania is at a crossroads. For nearly a year, the pandemic has forced job creators to adapt to ever-changing situations and tackle numerous challenges related to shutdowns, closure orders, less economic activity and making sure they’re complying with state- and CDC-issued guidelines. While the development of a covid-19 vaccine has...
Letter to the editor: Local leaders have blood on their hands
As a lifelong resident of Westmoreland County, I am appalled at the cruelty and ignorance on display in this county. Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in American history with the storming of the Capitol during what should have been the routine certification of the Electoral College votes....
Editorial: Like Washington, may all presidents transcend party to serve all citizens
On April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn into office as the first president of the United States. His birthday of Feb. 22 became a federal holiday that gave way to the modern Presidents Day. He had many things in common with the other 44 men whose roles we observe...
Letter to the editor: Trump voters have plenty of education
Letter-writer Tom Tarosky seems to make the assumption that anyone who voted for Donald Trump is a lesser person than he (“Maybe Trump supporters don’t know the facts,” Jan. 24, TribLIVE). He says that studies “reveal that a large segment of President Trump’s supporters have a high school education at...
Letter to the editor: Jan. 20, 2021, dark day for America
I believe that the leftist, progressive, socialist movement has shown itself to be the polar opposite and enemy of our country’s founding principles and a cancer in our society. The Democratic Party is its face with President Obama’s promise to “fundamentally transform” our country. The overwhelming majority of news media,...
Letter to the editor: Making up nonsense further divides us
It’s hard to know where to begin to refute such nonsense as the letter “When everything is free, we’re not free” (Feb. 1, TribLIVE). The Dems will tell us where to work and live? How much we earn? I sure hadn’t heard that. No constitutional rights? It’s the Republicans who...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 15
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 15....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 15
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S.E. Cupp: Impeachment matters, even without conviction
The fact that President Trump wasn’t convicted doesn’t mean the impeachment trial in the Senate was unimportant. In fact, it was absolutely crucial. Here are five reasons why. Accountability. What happened in the wake of the November elections was likely a crime. The president of the United States and his...
Editorial: How do minimum wages rise? The market leads, the government nudges
Minimum wage is a complicated issue. On one side, you have people who want to raise it. It will put more money in people’s pockets, they say. It will give the economy a jump start. It will help someone get by on one job instead of two or three. It...
Letter to the editor: On vaccines, we must do better for seniors
The Pennsylvania covid-19 vaccine rollout plan laid bare deep inequalities. People in the high-risk group who qualify today and need the vaccine the most are unable to navigate the technology-driven process. Seniors who don’t have a deep understanding of technology are expected to fast-finger-race to register when the announcement is...
Letter to the editor: Beer coverage shows lack of bond between Westmoreland cities
There were two very different headlines on stories on the same topic, Pittsburgh Brewing Co. moving its Iron City Beer production from Latrobe to East Deer, in the Feb. 5 Tribune-Review Westmoreland (“City Brewing in Latrobe to lose Iron City account”) and Valley News Dispatch (“Something big on tap: Pittsburgh...
Letter to the editor: Rampant stupidity, selfishness
As covid-19 paranoia runs rampant, so does a virus that truly threatens our very existence: stupidity and selfishness. As a 62-year-old lifelong independent, I’ve studied politics for 50 years, and I sit in the middle of a left-leaning agenda of those who hate America. They foolishly think the world is...
Letter to the editor: Trump worked to protect us
As we heard in the news: Hillary Clinton called Republicans “deplorables.” Katie Couric and others said Trump supporters in Congress should be “deprogrammed.” Maybe the type of people making these comments should listen instead of breathing in all that swamp gas. I have been a Republican for about 50 years....
Letter to the editor: C’mon, man — get your covid plan moving
Hey Joe … c’mon man! President Trump got the vaccine developed in a historic time frame. All you have to do is deliver it. This is just a logistics problem; no science involved. Use your “plan,” call your five-star generals and get our military involved, or better better yet, call...
Letter to the editor: Why don’t we cancel the pilgrims, too?
Why stop at Washington and Lincoln: What about those pesky Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock? We are all specks in time. We are all riding on the backs of those who came before, and I would say we owe them a huge debt. As I lay in my warm bed, I...
Letter to the editor: With new party in power, time to change channels
For all the people who get their news from television, it is time to make the big switch, since the occupant of the White House is now the other party. If you want to hear that everything that comes out of the White House is the best thing for the...
Letter to the editor: The power of middle America
Here is an environmental initiative that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York should endorse: Remove all internal combustion engines from luxury yachts, pleasure craft and private planes and make the owners replace the power source with wind and solar only. And those misplaced workers in the Kerry/Heinz world can learn...
