Opinion category, Page 603
David Zatezalo: Serving America’s miners Labor Day and every day
As assistant secretary for mine safety and health, I know firsthand how miners across the country — more than 300,000 individuals — provide an essential service to our country. Miners work to extract, process and deliver the minerals, metal and coal that keep America working. President Trump has been a...
Editorial: Celebrating jobs on Labor Day
Labor Day. You know what it is. It’s a lazy day. A picnic day. The line in the sand beyond which no white shoes used to pass. The first Monday in September is a day off for most. Since 1894, the federal government has set it aside as a day...
Letter to the editor: Positive outcomes of coronavirus
Covid-19 has taught us some notable lessons. The virus has brought families closer. The lockdowns forced people to stay home and take a break, giving them time to spend with their loved ones. Coronavirus has also taught us to differentiate between wants and needs. Many businesses shut down for the...
Letter to the editor: What has happened to our blessed nation?
How can the most blessed nation in history find itself in such chaos and despair? How can so many be deceived so easily and led down the path of destruction? The standardized testing and corrupted curriculum of primary education and the subversive groupthink and indoctrination by universities have conditioned most...
Letter to the editor: Garbage problems in New Kensington
Regarding the article “New Kensington considering dumping garbage hauler as residents’ complaints pile up” (July 21, TribLIVE): Complaints are coming in about the new garbage hauler. Councilman Todd Mentecki said no one has told him they wouldn’t be willing to pay more, $3, $4 or $5 a month, to get...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Sept. 7
Editorial cartoons for the week of Sept. 7....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 7
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 7....
Tom Melcher and Morgan O’Brien: A different Labor Day, a real opportunity
Labor Day 2020 certainly is a far cry from this day one year ago. While much has changed, we want to focus on the positive, and the great opportunity now at hand. Perhaps more than any Labor Day ever, we should all have a far greater appreciation for our region’s...
S.E. Cupp: Vote Biden, and make the presidency boring again
I heard a strange rumor recently that there are people out there, far, far away, who don’t spend the majority of their time thinking about politics. Instead of obsessing over tweets, binging on cable news 24/7, and pulling their hair out over the all-caps STATE OF OUR NATION, they’re —...
Letter to the editor: Questions about mail-in voting
Can someone please explain how these mail-in votes will be counted? And will they be counted before Election Day? And who’s going to sneak out results before Election Day? How long will it take to get results? I’m worried my vote may not be counted. Diane Miller Hempfield...
Letter to the editor: Waking up to craziness
Have I been in a coma for the last four years? Before I went out: If a person bankrupted two casinos, he was a nitwit, not a shrewd businessman. If a person didn’t pay his employees or taxes, he was despised by the working man, not revered. If a person...
Letter to the editor: Hypocrisy in what’s allowed, not allowed
There was a photo of families enjoying a musical performance at Townsend Park in Murrysville in the Aug. 6 edition of the Tribune-Review. The caption indicated the event was part of a series of live performances in the park. That would seem to indicate the event is sanctioned by community...
Letter to the editor: What Biden’s plans really mean
Revisiting Joe Biden’s campaign website and explaining how I see a few of his stances: 1. Clean energy — means hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the gas and oil industries. Scratch off Pennsylvania, Joe. 2. Road map to schools reopening — means wait until Nov. 4 to appease...
Letter to the editor: Veterans proud to support Trump
Regarding Leonard Mucci’s letter “How can veterans support Trump?” (Aug. 26, TribLIVE): President Bill Clinton was a draft dodger. President George W. Bush was in the reserves. Joe Biden received five student draft deferments and was disqualified from service because of asthma, although in his memoir he talks about playing...
Editorial: Consistency counts for crowd sizes permitted under covid restrictions
President Trump’s airport rally in Unity on Thursday drew an enthusiastic crowd. Some people focused on the enthusiasm. Others just saw the crowd. The event, held at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, drew thousands. Pennsylvania’s green-phase coronavirus pandemic restrictions cap outdoor gatherings at 250. The Republican campaign appearance might not have...
Letter to the editor: Athletes disrespecting our flag, country
I am disappointed more coaches and owners of major sports teams have vowed to support their players who “take a knee“ during the national anthem. How dare you disrespect the flag of the country that gave you the opportunity to make millions of dollars to play a game? That’s right,...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: On Labor Day, recalling march for social justice
On Labor Day, I think of the valley where I grew up. It was best seen from the middle of the Westinghouse Bridge. As far as the eye could see and the ear could hear, furnaces flared and trains slogged on and machinery clanked and whistles and bells sounded around...
Jonah Goldberg: Democrats can’t afford to let far left hijack the party
Last month, a mob of white protesters swarmed a white woman eating dinner in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Video of the bullies demanding that patrons raise their fists in solidarity with the movement went viral. Many pro-Trump and right-wing media personalities were quick to insist this verbal...
Sounding off: What I’ve learned from covid-19
Since March 2020 when this pandemic started, I have learned that this virus is very intelligent. I had expected people to be dropping dead in the streets based on the media hype, but the virus seems to have evolved so much in the past five months that it: • Understands...
Letter to the editor: We have plenty to lose under Trump
The letter “Democratic Party hijacked” (Aug. 8, TribLIVE) typifies President Trump’s supporters and Republicans in general, people able to ignore facts. I believe when Trump’s lips move, he lies. In my opinion, he is corrupt, incapable and dangerous and has crippled our country. The letter had no mention of the...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Wolf’s pot plot to control guns
Gov. Tom Wolf wants to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes to help small business make up for covid-19 losses (“Gov. Tom Wolf wants Pa. to legalize marijuana, provide more covid-19 relief this fall”).Nice, but no cigar. In my opinion, this is just a backdoor plot to control gun possession in...
Letter to the editor: Truth about radical socialists
The occupation and shutdown of part of Seattle and the lawless defacement of public statues is just another example that there is nothing radical socialists won’t do, given their ideology based on a not-so-subtle determinism: “If it’s inevitable, then whatever we do is OK.” All of the left’s ideological heroes...
Editorial: Pa. must answer for incomplete nursing home data
There is no excuse for not having correct numbers for covid-19 cases in nursing homes. Diane Menio, executive director at the Philadelphia-based advocacy group CARIE, said that to Tribune-Review and Spotlight PA reporter Jamie Martines this week. She is right. When the coronavirus pandemic hit Pennsylvania in March, there was...
Walter Williams: Diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense
Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are Black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the diversity and inclusion sought by the nation’s social justice warriors. Both professional and college coaches...
John Stossel: A better president
The media obsess about Trump/Biden, but another candidate will be on every state ballot: Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen. Jorgensen, a psychology lecturer at Clemson University, is different from Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Instead of promising government solutions, she tells people, “You can spend your money better than the...
