Opinion category, Page 585
Letter to the editor: Happy memories of Maz and Pirates
I commend you for featuring the famous Bill Mazeroski photo on the 60th anniversary of the Pirates’ fabulous win over the Yankees (“60 years later, 1960 Pirates legends recall ‘amazing’ home run that won World Series,” Oct. 10, TribLIVE). I grew up in the small Clearfield County town of Curwensville....
Letter to the editor: We can put an end to Trump virus Nov. 3
Talk about being fed Kool-Aid. President Trump has been feeding it to the American citizens about the coronavirus. His downplaying of the pandemic, revealed through Bob Woodward’s interviews, says it all. Trump misled the country and failed to protect American citizens, and I hold him responsible for many thousands of...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s opponents media, big tech
Negative press coverage of President Trump, a Christian, began before he took the oath of office and has only worsened. According to analysts at the Media Research Center, coverage of Trump on major broadcast networks is 95% negative. I can only say that God has to be on his side....
Lori Falce: Polls, elections and fantasy football
Polls seem like the worst measure of politics. Randomly questioning people to see how they feel about issues and how they feel about candidates, how they would vote and if they are likely to do so. They are a hodgepodge of numbers that puff themselves up and try hard to...
Laurels & lances: Talk, ticks, signs and sweets
Laurel: To expanding reach. KDKA Radio has been one of the voices of Pittsburgh longer than most people can remember — even if they were alive back when the Harding/Cox presidential election returns were broadcast in 1920. But after 100 years on the AM dial, KDKA is finally making the...
Jonah Goldberg: Liberals panicking over possibility of a 2016 repeat
The 2016 election lives loudly in everybody right now. On the Trumpian right, “the polls were wrong before” isn’t merely an observation, it’s a catechism. And on the anti-Trumpian left, it’s a constant source of anxiety bordering on panic. It’s making a lot of folks a little crazy. My friend...
Letter to the editor: 2 ways to see Trump’s town hall performance
During the NBC Town Hall on Oct. 15, I saw President Trump do a great job answering questions from a combative Savannah Guthrie. She constantly interrupted him, argued with him and questioned him as if she were a Democratic rival. He was polite and engaging. After reading the Trib’s front-page...
Letter to the editor: We the people must stop Trump
Donald Trump continues to undermine the democratic process by labeling the press as “the enemy of the people,” encouraging self-appointed militia to “liberate” Democratic states and now what I see as plotting with Republican legislatures to hand him our electoral votes. His condoning of white supremacists and gun-toting militia and...
Letter to the editor: Early tallying of ballots essential
It is common sense that in a crucial presidential election in which an unprecedented number of Pennsylvanians will vote by mail that the General Assembly would enact legislation allowing county elections offices to begin tallying ballots before Nov. 3. (Only Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Alabama prohibit this.) Why is such...
Editorial: Is Purdue Pharma settlement enough?
Every court case that comes to a plea deal is a game of poker. Who has the better hand? Who has the better bluff? Who has the most to lose or everything to win? In the case of Purdue Pharma and the part its massively successful pain medication OxyContin played...
Letter to the editor: Go Wendy Bell, go Trump
Wendy Bell, I’m in your corner all the way. Go Trump! Linda Spiering West Leechburg...
Letter to the editor: Pick your president, pick your system
For the first time in memory, I believe Americans will select the form of government we will be living under for generations. Will it be America’s system of freedom, with its opportunities for all to grow and enjoy the fruits of that freedom? Or will it be socialism, with its...
Letter to the editor: Thanks for postal workers
A big shout-out to the men and women of our U.S. Post Office for helping us to vote safely and securely from our homes. My husband and I received our ballots Oct. 14, mailed them back Oct. 15 and had confirmation of their arrival at our county Election Bureau on...
Graham Godwin: 2020’s polls aren’t 2016’s polls
The 2016 presidential contest made some people skeptical of polling. But this is perhaps more of the situation where one remembers the emotion more than the facts. Yes, there were a lot of entities doing a lot of polling that year, and some of it was just bad. That’s what...
Jeanne Allen: Parents should have power on education
For years, measures like the Nation’s Report Card have assessed educational opportunity in America. Long story short: Our scores are abysmal, and our children are falling further and further behind both national and international norms. Now enter covid-19. The pandemic has put this ugly truth on display for all to...
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....
