Opinion category, Page 561
Editorial: A good first step to serve counties without health departments
Pennsylvania is going to give a helping hand to the areas of the state that don’t have a county health department. By state law, only six counties have those offices: Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Erie, Montgomery and Philadelphia. Allegheny updates residents and the media regularly about what is happening with the...
Letter to the editor: Republicans don’t need to ‘get over it’
I find Carl Mochak’s letter “Biden won; Trump needs to get over it” (Nov. 25, TribLIVE) beyond belief. Where has he been for the last four years? It was the Democrats who didn’t “get over it” when President Trump won. The Dems put the president and our country through what...
Kathleen Parker: Biden press team honeymoon won’t last
The breathlessness surrounding President-elect Joe Biden’s communications and press offices — all women! — should be considered a honeymoon that will end at 1 a.m. Jan. 21, the day after Biden’s inauguration. It’s all in the stars. Constellations, that is, of media superstars, many of whom have become household names...
Letter to the editor: Far-left subversion
Tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or set of beliefs. The above is Webster’s definition of a subversive. The actions of the far left running up to the recent election fit this definition. Remember the radicals...
Letter to the editor: No apology for voting against Trump
Republican president Abraham Lincoln implored Americans to act “with malice toward none, but charity for all.” Now along comes Eric Kocian and his inflammatory letter “Trump, supporters energized” (Nov. 13, TribLIVE). Mr. Kocian, “true Americans” shouldn’t be such spoil-sports, sore losers and partisan crybabies. Kocian writes that “Democrats hijacked Americans’...
Letter to the editor: Wolf, Levine are inconsistent on decisions
Once again Gov. Tom Wolf and state Secretary of Health Rachel Levine have taken steps to curb the spread of covid-19. But once again they are so inconsistent in their decisions that it boggles the imagination. With the new, tighter gathering limits, capacity at the 15,600-seat Hersheypark Stadium, which hosted...
Letter to the editor: Stimulus bail-outs don’t save lives
Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently said people will die if the stimulus bill is not passed. I would like her to explain how many lives were saved by including $25 million in aid to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the last stimulus bill. The...
Letter to the editor: Trump and Biden, love and hate
President Trump’s supporters love him, his many accomplishments and his devotion to our country. President-elect Biden’s voters do not seem to love him. I’m guessing they just hate Trump. I spoke to over 20 Biden voters the past few months. Every one voted against Trump, not for Biden. Hate has...
Editorial: Keeping hospitals from being swamped is a collective responsibility
The great fear with any disease is always death. We worry about how many people it will steal. But with a pandemic — a rising tide of illness that isn’t confined to one school district, one town or even one country — there is another concern that can be a...
Letter to the editor: The people have spoken on Trump
President Trump lied to the American people about a deadly pandemic, and now 268,000 Americans are dead and the number of cases is rising alarmingly. He held MAGA rallies throughout the country, along with a Rose Garden ceremony, with many people not wearing masks, and coronavirus spread. He continually has...
Letter to the editor: We must oppose Pa. electric car fee bill
Beware: House Bill 1392, imposing annual fees on electric vehicles of $275 or $175, depending on size, and $75 on gasoline hybrid cars, is headed for the lame-duck session of the Pennsylvania state Senate (“Pa. House votes to impose fees on electric cars,” Nov. 21, TribLIVE) after passing the Pennsylvania...
Letter to the editor: Government’s restaurant restrictions are absurd
Our restaurants and bars are suffering financial hardships, and many will not recover. They have been suffering since March, when Gov. Tom Wolf declared them nonessential and hotbeds for coronavirus. And he’s at it again, with random checks of said establishments to make sure they are complying with the latest...
Letter to the editor: Schools making life-critical decisions
The Norwin School Board has decided to go from in-person to remote learning. This is not an educational, social developmental, convenience or economical decision, but a life-critical decision. All life-critical decisions have four things in common: They are time sensitive, requiring immediate action; they come with limited information and multiple...
Pat Buchanan: Trump’s historic presidency
In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of State supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from...
Letter to the editor: Mark Madden and sports viewership
Poor Mark Madden. He can’t figure out why sports viewership is down (“Sports consumers dwindling during pandemic,” Nov. 18, TribLIVE). Blames it on the pandemic. Actually, viewership should be up, but decent Americans were pushed away by lectures from people extolling the character of felons. Poor MM. He’s no Mickey...
Letter to the editor: Psychological terrorism
The degree to which psychological terrorism is being perpetrated upon the world has never been seen before. The depth and breadth of this plan is a feat that could not have been devised by man alone. For those with eyes to see, it’s a prophetic warning. It’s always been that...
Editorial: Why weren’t poll workers better prepared?
Everyone knew there could be issues with the 2020 election. Aside from the obvious political ramifications of a presidential battle that was four years in the brewing, there was a very technical situation at hand. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced in 2017 that Pennsylvania was one of 21...
Letter to the editor: Republicans’ legacy of debt
In his column “Will Georgia halt the radicals revolution?” (Nov. 11, TribLIVE), Pat Buchanan wrote, “LBJ’s Great Society is manifest today in our staggering national debt.” So let’s look at some debt data. Lyndon Johnson did increase government spending by 13%. Since Johnson, every president has increased the debt by...
Erik Paulsen: Executive order for price controls will harm innovation and patients
President Trump recently signed a new executive order to reform our health care system. While his desire to lower costs for patients is appropriate, the proposed changes would do more harm than good. The new “most-favored- nation” executive order would tie Medicare payments for certain medicines to the lowest price...
Tom Purcell: Finding the good in our grief with Charlie Brown
Good grief. It surprised me how sad I was that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” no longer would air on broadcast television. I felt like I’d lost a chunk of my childhood. In October, Apple TV+ acquired the rights to all “Peanuts” holiday specials including “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” A great...
Letter to the editor: Trump making mockery of democracy
In his letter “What’s acceptable to the left” (Nov. 21, TribLIVE), John Ventre wrote that “President Trump made winning look so easy that voters focused on his personality instead of his policies.” Well, now you can see that his personality is that of a little child who didn’t get his...
Letter to the editor: What we’ve learned about masks
Before covid-19, most people didn’t wear masks, not even in 2009 during the swine flu pandemic. I was in fourth grade then. How did I get the flu? Somebody sneezed. Another coughed. Like covid-19, influenza spreads by airborne droplets. Unknown to me, I came home from school infected. Days later,...
Editorial: Hunting changes could feed families
The Monday after Thanksgiving has long been an additional holiday in Pennsylvania. A day off work. A day with special observations and rituals. And one with a lot of prayers said as hunters call upon a higher power for a little divine assistance in bagging the biggest deer possible. But...
Letter to the editor: Timid state legislators
It should be clear to most that this election seems fitting for a banana republic, not a real one. To add insult to injury, Pennsylvania has been singled out as one of the states whose voting regulations, or lack thereof, has reinforced this situation. I believe Gov. Tom Wolf and...
Letter to the editor: Trump should focus on country, not his loss
It is amazing to me that people still refuse to see the truth about our so-called president. In my opinion, President Trump spreads racism and hate and has been a disgrace to this country. He seems to fire anyone who does not agree with him or won’t go along with...
