Opinion category, Page 650
Letter to the editor: Wolf’s closure of state homes shameful
Since everybody is so quick to put the president’s head on the chopping block, first try taking a look at your own pitiful governor. If anyone deserves to be impeached, it’s him. How can someone who holds such an office care so little about the people in his own commonwealth?...
Letter to the editor: Support travel agents
Covid-19 has turned our world upside down. After isolation ends, people will want to start re-exploring their community and world. When this time comes, I implore you to support small businesses. The livelihoods of boutiques, local restaurants and travel agents have been devastated, and we need your support. Yes, travel...
Letter to the editor: China and coronavirus
Engaging in a game of Chinese checkers as a kid was fun. But as senior citizens, engaging in warfare with a deadly virus that started in China is life-threatening and disruptive. It’s no surprise that China spies and lies, cheats and steals and wishes for our economy, the dollar and...
Letter to the editor: Joe Biden knows how to be president
In a pandemic, facts and competency are important. If elected president, Joe Biden will instruct government agencies to award government contracts for life-saving equipment to the most reputable businesses with a history of reliability, not to his campaign donors and friends. Biden will ensure that front-line workers have all the...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Tom Wolf’s limits on liberty endanger lives
Gov. Tom Wolf’s response to the coronavirus seems arbitrary and mysterious. He prohibits work he deems “nonessential” even though it could be performed while social distancing. He allows commerce that is clearly nonessential such as beer and liquor sales. A mere two months ago, Americans were encouraged to not wear...
Lori Falce: Truth, math and politics
Do the math. It’s a pithy, sarcastic little phrase that says if you take all of your numbers, line them up and funnel them into the right columns, you will get the answer that you want. There is just one problem. Sometimes that is exactly what happens. The thing about...
Jonah Goldberg: A modest proposal to counter Chinese pressure on Hollywood
During the filming of the 1939 movie “Jesse James,” a stuntman and his horse went over a cliff and fell 70 feet into a river. The stuntman was fine; the horse died. This incident is what gave rise to that line at the end of many movies: “No animals were...
Letter to the editor: Great time to be a bankruptcy lawyer
Just a thought: The small business lending fund burned through most of its allocated $349 billion in under two weeks. It ain’t enough money. So they had to get another $310 billion. This may be a great time to be a bankruptcy lawyer. Just sayin’. Joe Marmo Cheswick...
Letter to the editor: U.S. shouldn’t pick up any more checks
Look, I realize that anything bad that ever happened, going back to Noah and all that rain, is Donald Trump’s fault, I get that. “If only he weren’t a climate change denier,” lamented Yahweh. I stubbed my toe last night on the coffee table … Trump obviously sneaked in and...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s covid-19 rallies
Mixed emotions are the feelings parents experience the morning after the high school prom when their 16-year-old daughter arrives home carrying a Gideon Bible. For me, it is wanting to learn all I can about the coronavirus while suffering from information overload. President Trump has turned the virus pandemic briefings...
Letter to the editor: Shutdown is decimating Pa.
Bankrupting individuals and businesses will be more detrimental and deadly to our state than covid-19 or any other cause of death. There is a significant gap between those whose wealth and power insulates them from experiencing hardship as a result of Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown mandates, and those with little...
Letter to the editor: Stay home & stay safe
People are complaining about the stay-at-home restrictions, and I certainly understand. I’m not enjoying it either. But we must look at the larger picture. People complain about churches being closed, and I understand that, too. It is difficult to be absent from our Christian community, but it would be worse...
Editorial: Port Authority needs to find answer
If you get a flat tire, you can put on the emergency doughnut to get to the garage for a real repair. You can’t just accept that the little round rim of rubber is going to do the job of a full-fledged tire. A half-solution can end up being no...
Andrea Richardson and Tamara Dubowitz: Feeding needy and protecting front-line workers
Workers in food retail, donation or meal delivery are on the front lines of the covid-19 pandemic. Until now, food retailers, food banks and school food services operated under food safety regulations to prevent food-borne disease. But with the deadly outbreak of covid-19, they are developing new standards and guidance...
Letter to the editor: Kudos to grandparents who step in
As we live cautiously in these uncertain times, I would like to say thank you to all the grandparents who are taking the time to educate their grandchildren. I know I’m not the only person in a position to “care for” and “see to it” that my grandchildren continue their...
Letter to the editor: Coronavirus & abortion
In 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Health recorded 30,364 abortions. Of those, 87% were in the six counties of Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Dauphin, Northampton and Allegheny. As of April 28, Pennsylvania has confirmed 42,000 cases of covid-19 and 1,600 deaths. Much of the virus has occurred in those same counties....
Letter to the editor: Choosing freedom over fear
We need to return to work. This shutdown is more harmful to the American people than the virus itself. People are losing businesses and jobs. We do not want to be dependent on the government and have our children and children’s children pay for it. Every business is essential if...
Letter to the editor: Warm weather & plagues
It was warmer than this during the Black Plague (mortality of 30% to 75%), smallpox outbreaks (about 30%, CDC estimate), Spanish flu (675,000 deaths in the U.S. alone, CDC) and yellow fever plagues (about 3%, about the same as covid-19, WHO estimate). This must mean that the cloaks and hats...
Letter to the editor: A pandemic history lesson
History should provide insight for directing resources toward activities that would alleviate repeating events, such as war and pandemics, that cause unbelievable physical and economic harm. One could argue the well- documented 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed millions and contributed to the economic disaster of 1929, should have been one...
Editorial: Hospitals need elective surgery to survive
There are some things we want back after weeks in a pandemic lockdown. We want happy hour and Sunday brunch and a shopping trip that doesn’t feel like deploying on a military maneuver. But there are other things we need. New hips. Gallbladder removal. Coronary angioplasty to see if an...
Pat Buchanan: The one certain victor in pandemic war
“War is the health of the state,” wrote the progressive Randolph Bourne during World War I, after which he succumbed to the Spanish flu. America’s war on the coronavirus pandemic promises to be no exception to the axiom. However long this war requires, the gargantuan state will almost surely emerge...
Joel Pfeffer: Now is not the time for Trump’s immigration order
Joel Pfeffer is a Pittsburgh-based attorney with the law firm Meyer, Unkovic & Scott. He works primarily in the areas of immigration, nationality and corporate law. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and former chairman of the organization’s Pittsburgh chapter. President Trump caused a stir when...
Letter to the editor: Too many non-experts
If it is relevant to preface your words with the phrase “I’m not a (insert profession here) but,” then please stop right there. Any statement after that only serves to prove your preface to be 100% accurate. Gary Russak North Huntingdon...
Letter to the editor: Disappointed in Wolf’s veto
It is rather difficult for me to understand the outrage from the left about bringing Pennsylvania into line with the CDC and federal guidelines just like New York, which is the hardest hit state of them all, which is what Senate Bill 613 aimed to do. This would allow industries...
Letter to the editor: Healthy citizens, healthy economy
Regarding Dave Majernik’s letter “Hysteria shouldn’t kill our economy”: I realize you are a Republican operative, but don’t you understand that you can’t have a healthy economy without a healthy citizenry? You say it is “not uncaring to put coronavirus in perspective and consider the millions of lives lost annually...
