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Isaac Brown: Curbing emissions benefits all Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvanians realize that natural gas plays a significant role in the state’s economy. However, the state’s energy resources should be developed responsibly by minimizing natural gas waste and air pollution from new and existing oil and gas infrastructure. To that end, we applaud the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf as...
Kevin Walters: Pros & cons of civilian review boards
Last month’s reintroduction of a proposed ordinance by the Allegheny County Council to create a civilian police review panel is sharply dividing the community between those who believe it necessary to prevent or detect misconduct on the part of county law enforcement officers and those who believe such a civilian...
Editorial: Coronavirus is not alone
Every sniffle is starting to make people wonder about the latest looming monster. Coronavirus. Specifically, it is Wuhan coronavirus, a novel variety of a large family of viruses that include the hundreds of microscopic bugs that cause what we affectionately call “the common cold.” But nobody is afraid of a...
Letter to the editor: Abortion beginning of many evils
Science tells us human life begins at conception, so that makes abortion the beginning of many evils. It is the beginning of child abuse and the beginning of attacks on our environment (nature) as far as human beings are concerned. In addition, Judeo-Christian teaching states that God has a relationship...
Sounding off: Stop hating on the wealthy, cheers to Trump and other top letters of the week
Progressives believe it is unjust for some people to amass huge fortunes because concentrated wealth causes more poverty in others. But such an idea is absolutely false, and here’s why. The potential to become wealthy motivates people to work harder, take risks, invent things and innovate — and that benefits...
Letter to the editor: Love without limits can destroy
Regarding the letter “A more compassionate Republican Party” (Jan. 11, TribLIVE): Being humane, compassionate and caring are admirable qualities. They embody the definition of love. As a country that began by asking God’s blessing, we have been the “city on a hill” for the world through which every continent has...
Letter to the editor: Supreme Court in peril
Some people who voted for President Trump didn’t admire his character. However, they knew the next president would appoint judges to the Supreme Court, and it was important that they were conservatives and followed the Constitution. In the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was having trouble getting key parts of his...
Walter Williams: Founders viewed democracy as tyranny
During President Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact,...
John Stossel: Freebies for everyone
The Iowa Caucus, the real start of the 2020 presidential primaries, is next week. Who’s favored to win? Sadly, the smart money says it’s the candidate who’s promised Americans the most “free” stuff. Six months ago, my staff and I tallied the candidates’ promises. All wanted to give away trillions...
Editorial: Open records, not open identity info
Newspapers are big fans of open records. We want to be able to find out what our government and public entities are doing. What did they buy? What did they spend? Where did the money come from? Who did something wrong? How was it punished? How was it corrected? What...
Letter to the editor: Helping children around world
I am writing to thank area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Because of the generosity of donors across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected more than 8.9 million shoebox gifts in 2019. Combined...
Letter to the editor: Dems, media won’t fool us again
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. How did the Democrats and deep state take the House in 2018? Simply stated, they fooled a lot of voters. First, they pushed for the Russia investigation hoax to make President Trump look bad. Second, the Democratic candidates...
Letter to the editor: Impeach & remove Trump
Thank you for covering this year’s women’s march (“Women’s March rallies for 4th year in Downtown Pittsburgh, with anti-war, anti- Trump focus,” Jan. 18, TribLIVE), albeit on the back page. The guy you photographed had the sign correct: “Impeach & Remove.” I was there along with 1,000 other people, at least...
Colin McNickle: Allegheny County’s real economic performance
Elected and appointed government officials have a troubling habit of engaging in what we’ll call “sound bite promotion.” They go on a radio or television program making wondrous claims of economic progress yet offer only vague support of those claims and seldom are challenged by their interviewers. Thus, for the...
Lori Falce: Groundhog Day all over again
Groundhog Day isn’t here until Sunday but I feel like I’ve been living it for months. Remember the Bill Murray movie where Groundhog Day never ended? Where no matter what happened when he got up in the morning, no matter how he screwed things up or fixed what went wrong,...
Laurels & lances: Out of the box and in the pool
Laurel: To wacky new ideas. Hey, maybe Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s thoughts about gondolas connecting the Strip, the Hill District and Oakland is a little out there. Or maybe it’s up there? But give credit where credit is due. It’s definitely something new and different. The idea isn’t about the...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment rumors can’t be true
Well, impeachment is upon us. I was worried about what Sen. Mitch McConnell and some of the Republicans would come up with. I heard an awful rumor that they were going to have 12-hour days so a lot of the testimony would be heard after most people were asleep. That...
Letter to the editor: Democratic circus
Watching the Democratic Party leadership is a lot like watching a movie titled “The Three Stooges Meet the Keystone Cops.” The Russia hoax blew up in the Dems’ faces. The Steele dossier was paid for by the Democratic National Committee on behalf of the Clinton campaign and was never verified....
Jonah Goldberg: Discrediting Bolton won’t be easy for Team Trump
“I’m with the Bush-Cheney team, and I’m here to stop the count.” Those words were bellowed by John Bolton in a Tallahassee library in December 2000, when he was part of a team of Republican lawyers trying to stop the Florida recount of votes cast in the presidential race between...
Editorial: Who should pick the Lt. Gov.?
Elect a president and you get his running mate, too. It’s like a buy-one-get-one-free offer. You don’t get to split the deck. You don’t get to take George H.W. Bush but swap Dan Quayle for Newt Gingrich. You don’t get Jimmy Carter without Walter Mondale. It’s all or nothing. With...
Letter to the editor: Media shouldn’t print names of arrested
Regarding the article “Police: Pittsburgh woman accused of arson in Greenfield apartment fire case” (Jan. 16, TribLIVE): The American criminal justice system is founded on the principle that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Yet news outlets print the names of arrested adults, regardless of acquittal or conviction. A...
Letter to the editor: Pelosi, Democrats fear Trump
I disagree with everyone who says the Democrats hate President Trump. Nancy Pelosi said she hates no one. Hate can be changed with love or doing good to those who hate you. Pelosi does not hate; she and her friends in the House who voted to impeach Trump have a...
Letter to the editor: Trump has brought out worst in us
Don’t you know that the world will stop rotating if Donald Trump isn’t reelected president? Don’t you know money is America’s god? Does it matter how many sins Trump has committed in the past or will commit in the future? We have become a nation of sins. When the church...
Pat Buchanan: Hillary puts Bernie in her basket of deplorables
“Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician.” So says Hillary Clinton of her former Senate colleague and 2016 rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders. Her assessment of Sanders’ populist-socialist agenda? “It’s all just baloney and I feel so...
Dr. Lawrence John: On mental health, physicians should lead by example
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf launched a campaign earlier this month aimed at expanding access to mental health services for all Pennsylvanians. As president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, I applaud Wolf’s commitment to combating this growing issue. While strengthening insurance parity and network adequacy serve as essential solutions, an equally...
