Opinion category, Page 575
Letter to the editor: Eliminate the Electoral College
Regarding Dorothy Shock’s letter “Why Electoral College works” (Oct. 11, TribLIVE): I firmly disagree! The U.S. is a country with individual states. The population in each state is different, and every person has the right to vote. It’s a free country. We should eliminate the Electoral College and let the...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Wolf must continue management of virus to protect us
Gov. Wolf, please, please be careful! Stop openings to satisfy people who want to drink, people who have to eat in restaurants. They have these views of restraint and inconvenience that translate to impinging on their American freedoms. Selfish is a better description. Your management of the virus conditions will...
Letter to the editor: Which candidate has all his wits?
I only have a few requests of Joe Biden supporters before this important election. 1. Please put your hate- consuming personal feelings aside and only look at the facts. 2. Know that riots, destroying statues, defunding and killing police solve nothing. You can rest assured these criminals are not MAGA voters....
Letter to the editor: Trump is easy to dislike
“I never met a man I didn’t like.” — Will Rogers Born in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), part Cherokee, the former cowpoke and humorist died in a plane crash in 1935; thus he never met Donald Trump. Trump is easy to dislike, and had the two met, I’m...
Editorial: Supreme Court shows importance of a single vote
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Sept. 17 ruling on mail-in ballots. The state high court ruled that ballots cast by mail could be counted if they were received as late as 5 p.m. Nov. 6, three days after the...
Letter to the editor: Petrarca best man for House seat
We sometimes forget the importance of our state and local elections, which affect our day-to-day lives. State Rep. Joe Petrarca, a Democrat from Washington Township, is running to retain his seat. He took office in the state House on Jan. 3, 1995. When we vote, we hire someone to work...
Letter to the editor: What Kamala Harris supports
What do we really know about Kamala Harris? She is on record to: • Repeal Trump’s tax cuts • Reduce military spending • Relax immigration rules • Institute tax increases, including a wealth tax and higher capital gains tax • Support reparations in some form for descendants of slaves in...
Pat Buchanan: Can America do it all?
In fiscal year 2020, which ended Sept. 30, the U.S. government set some impressive new records. The deficit came in at $3.1 trillion, twice the previous record of $1.4 trillion in 2009, which was set during the Great Recession, and three times the 2019 deficit of about $1 trillion. Federal...
Dr. Natalie Gentile: Pennsylvanians deserve affordable, accessible access to primary care physicians
Dozens of national health care leaders recently called upon Congress to expand patients’ options for personalized, high-quality health care. One of the most important measures included in the recommendations was greater support for direct primary care (DPC), a growing health care model that replaces the fee-for-service insurance model of care...
Aaron Carroll: Let kids have Halloween
Of course we want everyone, including children, to be safe during the pandemic. We canceled school in the spring, camps in the summer, vacations, sleepovers and more. My daughter turned 14 in June, and her friends drove by in cars, wishing her happy birthday while she waved from the lawn....
Letter to the editor: ‘Suckers and losers’ plot to divide followers?
I don’t believe the reports about President Trump calling service members “suckers” and “losers.” Granted, he has put his foot in his mouth many times, but he is not that stupid to say that about our members of the military, even if he might think it. He wouldn’t say things...
Letter to the editor: Bill Marx will represent all of us
I am a “no party affiliated” registered voter in Westmoreland County. While I do lean to the left of the aisle, I have voted for Republicans before — Tim Krieger, Bob Regola and even Justin Walsh once. But I cannot bring myself to vote for Guy Reschenthaler as representative for...
Letter to the editor: RGGI will help Pa. in post-coal world
Unfortunately, lawmakers and fossil-fuel interests can still somehow frame environmental progress as being anti-jobs. Consider the article “Union members join industry groups to rally against state caps on power plant emissions” (Aug. 26, TribLIVE), which aired a one-sided, flawed argument against the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a proven market-based...
Editorial: Pipeline protection needs common sense update
There is a difference between security and secrecy. Security is making sure that dangerous things are protected. Secrecy is making sure things — dangerous or otherwise — are hidden. Those might seem related, but they aren’t the same. A $5.1 billion pipeline that transmits millions of gallons of natural gas...
Letter to the editor: Daryl Metcalfe all that’s wrong with politics
With mail-in ballots being sent out to voters this month, it’s not too soon to suggest that Daryl Metcalfe, who has been “representing” District 12 in Harrisburg, is the best example I can think of someone who personifies what’s wrong with politics in the United States today. If you live...
Letter to the editor: Barrett is a great example of Christianity
I’ve watched the entire confirmation hearing that the article “Barrett tells doubtful Dems she’d keep open mind on court” discusses, and I am struck by one surprising realization. Judge Amy Coney Barrett appears to be a straightforward, kind, faithful, gracious, good, intelligent, hardworking person, a mother of seven who has...
Tom Purcell: You know politics stinks when stink bugs are an escape
I’d rather focus on stink bugs. The political season is at a fever pitch. Anger at those who disagree with others’ political views, the result of increasing polarization, is rampant. I don’t have the stomach for what our politics and public discourse have become. So, I focus on stink bugs....
John Sparks: Amy Coney Barrett and the Purdue sexual assault case
Liberal/progressive organizations like Public Justice are portraying President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, as soft on and complicit with campus sexual abusers. Public Justice has zeroed in on decision written by Barrett for a three-judge panel a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case, Doe v....
Walt Rowen: Small business to Washington — focus on us, not Supreme Court
The slow pace of bureaucracy is a running joke in America. It’s surprising, then, how quickly the Senate has advanced the confirmation hearings for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Less than a month after the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation...
Letter to the editor: Trump and coronavirus
President Trump’s new slogan could be “Keep America Dying.” Trump not only lied about covid-19, he knew in February how dangerous it was and intentionally kept it from the American people. More than 218,000 Americans have died. It seems to me Trump wanted this virus to spread. Why? Maybe he...
Letter to the editor: Trump never called heroes ‘suckers,’ ‘losers’
Longtime Democratic politician Don Walko wrote a letter bad-mouthing President Trump (“Backing Biden for president,” Sept. 24, TribLIVE). Kenneth Powell wrote a letter about several true American heroes (“Military heroes not losers, suckers,” Sept. 28, TribLIVE). The letters said “according to reports” and Trump “supposedly said” deceased veterans are “suckers”...
Letter to the editor: Plant-based diet can help with covid-19
As we enter cold and flu season on top of continued covid-19 risks, Plant-Based Pittsburgh reminds everyone about the importance of nutrition in strengthening our immune systems and supporting overall health. Mortality data shows that over 90% of the people who have died from covid-19 suffered from preexisting medical conditions,...
Letter to the editor: Lessons in ‘classless’ from Trump
Such a shame that the leader of our country (not the free world — I say that’s Angela Merkel; among our allies Xi and Putin are more trusted!) got booed at Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral. Seems that the Dems aren’t very good at classless. For the best classless, the greatest...
Letter to the editor: Christians have no choice but to vote Republican
I was raised as a “blue collar” Democrat. My parents were both children of immigrants. They have both gone to Christ’s kingdom, but if they were alive today, they would both be staunch Republicans, as it would be the only political party they would even still recognize. The Democratic Party...
Letter to the editor: Our changing planet
Many scientists from many countries have many ideas as to the present-day climate change. As I was recently reading the papers and listening to the TV news, I was bewildered as to why the California wildfires did not penetrate into Canada or Mexico. Looking at the maps, there are no...
