Opinion category, Page 640
Letter to the editor: Opening up Pa. is good for everyone
Our practice has had to negotiate our way through the pandemic and mandated quarantine/shutdown. On March 24, we laid off 75% of our employees and saw only emergency patients. Last week our employees returned, and we are working at about 50% capacity. Our practice will survive, but smaller businesses and...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s legacy
What legacy is the Trump administration leaving for our grandchildren? It appears Trump and his cronies place today’s profits above concerns for our future. It began in 2017 with tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%, continued with dismantling the Clean Water Act, abolishing workers rights and withdrawal from the Paris...
Letter to the editor: Can they hate Trump any more?
The latest hate is over President Trump using hydroxychloroquine as a preventative medicine for the coronavirus. The Democrats say this is so wrong. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he should not take it because of his age, and he is morbidly obese. Nice talk there, Nancy. I thought you Democrats...
Letter to the editor: Lazy Americans let politicians have free rein
The answer to letter-writer Lisa Messineo’s “whys” (“Disjointed efforts to fight covid-19,” May 14, TribLIVE) is simple: The American people have been lazy. We have let politicians have free rein. When is the last time you voted? When is the last time you attended a commissioners, supervisors or school board...
Tom Purcell: Pandemic restrictions highlight blessings we take for granted
What The Bogota Post got right about America before covid-19 rings just as true during the pandemic — maybe even more true. In a May 2019 article, “The List of Things Americans Take for Granted,” the newspaper examined some of the freedoms and blessings too many Americans forget they have....
Editorial: Pilot program makes groceries a SNAP
Buying groceries online has been one of the things that has made many people’s lives easier during the coronavirus pandemic. While staying home has been frustrating since Gov. Tom Wolf closed schools in March and then issued an order closing non-life-sustaining businesses, modern technology has meant if you have a...
Letter to the editor: Dickinson has vision for Mon Valley
My husband and I found it quite refreshing that Jerry Dickinson, candidate for Congress in the 18th District, found time to stop at our home to discuss his candidacy and to hear concerns about our community. Over the years, Mon Valley communities have been left behind, the borough of Rankin...
Letter to the editor: Thank veterans for sacrifices
My father was a Marine in World War II. He fought in four campaigns in the Pacific theater, Guadalcanal, Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Guam. He was an artilleryman manning a 75mm howitzer. He was awarded a Bronze Star. On Guam, his gun and four others blasted over 300 Japanese soldiers in...
Letter to the editor: Vote for candidates who rebuke hate, embrace diversity
As we pay attention to the impact of covid-19 during Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, we must renew our commitment to supporting this community beyond May 31. Racism and xenophobia run deep in American culture, and President Trump’s suggestion that China is to blame for the pandemic may embolden people to...
Letter to the editor: Thank the heroes
As an Army veteran, I would like to thank our doctors, nurses and all who continue to serve on the front lines as we fight to defeat this cruel virus. All veterans know the horror of war, fighting the enemy who wants to destroy. Today our brave military are fighting...
Letter to the editor: We need to unite in covid-19 fight
Life during World War II was difficult, as government imposed many regulations. Food and gas were rationed, and everything from nylon stockings to cars and tires were difficult to find. Manufacturing was government mandated, geared to the war effort. But these things did not divide us. There was a feeling of...
Editorial cartoons for the week of May 25
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Editorial: We remember the fallen
For Memorial Day, a classic Trib editorial: On this Memorial Day, be grateful that Americans’ willingness to sacrifice for freedom’s sake, instilled by each generation in the next, remains as strong as ever. Today, Americans honor those most worthy of such gratitude — those who gave their lives in our...
Letter to the editor: Government not intended to protect us from microorganism
After two months of observing the situation with the coronavirus and government’s response to it, I have come to the conclusion that we created government to protect us from force and fraud, not a microorganism. Nick Kyriazi Deutschtown...
Letter to the editor: We need faith, not masks
In the past month I have become a rebel and an outcast because I can’t obey the mandate to wear a mask in public. I feel this is a violation of my constitutional rights as a citizen of a free democracy, not a dictatorship. The government can give advice. Advice...
Letter to the editor: We already have religious freedom
I just read the article “Religious freedom bill proposed in Pennsylvania as churches navigate reopening” (May 19, TribLIVE). Really? Don’t we already have a law covering that freedom? We do. It’s called the First Amendment to the Constitution. Wake up, people, and take our lives and country back, today! Al...
Letter to the editor: Weigh the risks, make your choices
Common sense is now an uncommon virtue. In statistics it is important to understand that figures can lie and liars can figure. Statisticians can have a bias, and the numbers may be unreliable and not relevant. Political polls predicted Thomas Dewey would win the 1948 presidential election. Most polls were...
Letter to the editor: Drug store’s nice gesture makes her day
Recently, when opening the bag with my refilled prescription from The Medicine Shoppe in Latrobe, I was pleasantly surprised. Inside was a packet of honeybee-friendly wildflower seeds. Such a nice gesture. It’s the little things. Evelynne M. Majernik Latrobe...
S.E. Cupp: Trumpites dish out abuse, but they can’t take it
With the president’s stunning admission last week he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug most medical experts say should not be used to treat or prevent coronavirus, the questions tumbled out. Was Trump lying about taking the drug he’s long been touting to combat covid-19, just to own the...
Letter to the editor: Politicians foster division during pandemic
On May 11, Reps. Valerie Gaydos, R-Allegheny, and Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, joined in signing a GOP letter calling for district attorneys across Pennsylvania to not enforce the governor’s covid-19 business closure orders. Since when did our politicians get so brazen to put their expertise in disease infections above health care...
Letter to the editor: Trump deflects and lies
Once again Donald Trump has tried to deflect responsibility for his slow response to the pandemic to someone else. In this case, China. Why would he praise President Xi for the good job he was doing and then try to blame him? Why would he believe a communist regime in...
Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting would damage election process
In Patrick Varine’s article “Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald calls for primary election to be conducted by mail” (April 13, TribLIVE), Fitzgerald asserts “Holding an in-person election in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic would be, in and of itself, a disaster.” The real disaster would be holding any election...
Letter to the editor: Child care critical, in need of funding
I have been an early child care educator and advocate for 28 years. I have owned and operated Helping Hands Childcare & Learning Center in Imperial for 21 years. On March 16 my doors closed to the 65 families the center serves and the 14 educators I employ. The abrupt...
Letter to the editor: Baseball and coronavirus
Tampa Bay Rays’ player Blake Snell reacted to a plan whereby Major League Baseball owners proposed a 50-50 split of revenues if only half of the games are played by announcing that he wasn’t about to give up anything in his five-year, $50-million contract. He flatly stated, “I’m not playing...
Letter to the editor: Penguins should pay damages to taxpayers
The editorial “Penguins miss shot with arena development project in Lower Hill District” (May 15, TribLIVE) missed the mark. This is not about the Penguins or Stanley Cups, rather a broken agreement. The saga began with owner Mario Lemieux’s threat to move the team to Kansas City if he didn’t...
