Opinion category, Page 709
Letter to the editor: Giant Eagle’s gun request hypocritical
Giant Eagle’s weigh-in on gun control (“Giant Eagle urges against open carry on store properties,” Sept. 14, TribLIVE) gives me another reason to buy my eggs at Aldi. If Giant Eagle was seriously concerned about the health and welfare of its customers, it wouldn’t profit by selling tobacco and alcohol...
Letter to the editor: Politics & parades
Kudos to the Tribune-Review editorial staff for standing against politics oozing into public events that are organized and funded by local government entities (“No politics at homecoming,” Sept. 29, TribLIVE). This also should apply to organizations advocating for or against any political issue, including those in favor or opposed to...
Laurels and Lances: Bleeding, carrying, healing
Laurel: To teaching students a vital part of first aid. Burrell High School became the first district in Westmoreland County to have students complete a “Stop the Bleed” class. This was provided by Excela Health Frick Hospital and Dr. William Jenkins. Teachers have been trained in most public and private...
Teresa Miller: Trump’s SNAP plan will hurt Pa. families
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously known as food stamps, is the most important anti-hunger program in the country. It helps more than 1.8 million of our fellow Pennsylvanians — our friends, neighbors and family members — put food on their tables. Those who rely on SNAP in Pennsylvania...
Paul Kengor: Dignity of children with Down syndrome
My family just visited Chocolate World at Hershey Park — the “sweetest place on earth.” We hit it every two or three years when traveling through. For those unfamiliar, Chocolate World is the heart of the Hershey experience. It’s a giant candyland, a chocolate paradise. The primary attraction is a...
Letter to the editor: Seeing reality of Trump
I am continually amazed by those who either cannot or will not think for themselves, or who refuse to see reality. Letter-writer George Biskup (“Collateral damage from anti-Trump actions,” Sept. 9, Trib LIVE) asked whether President Trump will ever get cooperation. Has he forgotten, or doesn’t realize, that the same was...
Letter to the editor: Our ‘Twilight Zone’ politics
Vice President Joe Biden is assigned to stop corruption in the Ukraine. His son, Hunter, and a friend of former Secretary of State John Kerry’s stepson are appointed to the board of a gas company in the Ukraine (under investigation for widespread corruption) which paid them $5,000 and up every...
Letter to the editor: Let’s counter hatred with love
Take away the guns, knives and bombs, and the hatred is still there. Why? It’s called the trickle-down effect. When you watch the news, you see profanity like never before from politicians talking about the other party. You see people asked to leave restaurants because of their party affiliation. Mayors...
George Will: Tangled web of college diversity
The judge took 130 pages to explain that Harvard’s “holistic review” admissions policies — which include ascribing particular attributes to certain ethnicities, such as Asian Americans, and assessing the value to Harvard of those attributes — are, considering 41 years of Supreme Court precedents, permissibly race-conscious. She said the policies...
Dr. David Macpherson: Illness from vaping highly predictable
The explosion of “vaping” myriads of flavors and substances has quickly led to life-threatening disease and death in young people. A brief description of how our body staves off toxins shows why this recent outbreak was predictable. All life forms live in a world of toxins — mostly invisible stuff...
Editorial: Bald eagles unify fractured America
Someone shot a bald eagle. It happened on the West Penn Trail in Derry Township on Friday. Someone took a gun and shot our national symbol in the face. Its famous white cap of feathers was soaked in blood and a piece of its beak was just gone. On Monday,...
Letter to the editor: Trump is a true patriot
President Donald J. Trump was elected by the citizens of this country to do a job. He promised to “Make America Great Again” by creating jobs, cutting job-crushing regulations, making other nations in this world pull their own weight, stop illegal immigration and fix the unfair trade practices that have...
Letter to the editor: America’s mental problem is Trump
Finally, President Trump has said something I agree with: America has a mental problem. It is Trump himself and those who continue to support him despite all his lies and possibly treasonous activities. No president has slept with the enemy and said the hell with our allies more than Trump....
Letter to the editor: Don’t raise taxes for park in Hempfield
A public forum was held Sept. 19 at Hempfield Area High School regarding a new community park on Route 136 next to the high school. Attendees were asked whether they felt the community would support development of the park if it meant an increase in property taxes. My husband, a...
Pat Buchanan: Is China the country of the future?
“Who lost China?” With the fall of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, the defeat of his armies and the flight to Formosa, that was the question of the hour in 1949. And no one demanded to know more insistently than the anti-Communist Congressman John F. Kennedy: Tragic indeed was...
Carol Ferguson: Parents need to know that vaccines work
Before its eradication in the U.S., polio affected millions. I should know; I am one of them. After founding the Pennsylvania Polio Survivors Network (PPSN), I have been reminded every day of the fear that existed before this terrible virus met its match in Jonas Salk’s famous vaccine. It came...
Editorial: During Yom Kippur, a message for all to hear
May you be sealed in the Book of Life. G’mar Chatima Tova. That is the traditional greeting for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, the holiest of the faith’s Holy Days. It is a time of fasting and reflection, dedication and prayer. It is a time the observant strive...
Letter to the editor: Trump must be impeached, removed from office
The United States Congress has finally received a “smoking gun” as the result of President Donald Trump’s request to the Ukrainian president to find damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden. The Ukrainian president did not provide this information, and Trump held up a United States’ military appropriation of...
Letter to the editor: Anti-Trump ‘cabal’ must be defeated
We have a four-party system here in America. We are all familiar with the Republican and Democratic parties, less familiar with the Washington establishment party and the federal government deep state party, including the intel community. The Democrats, the establishment (both Democrat and Republican) and the deep state are the...
Letter to the editor: Dissecting Mon Valley’s Catholic community
The Diocese of Pittsburgh’s “On Mission for The Church Alive!” campaign is DOA in the Mon Valley. It has proved to be a strategic, systematic and painful dissection of our Catholic community. Corpus Christi Parish in McKeesport is composed of the former St. Mary Czestochowa and six closed McKeesport parishes....
Tom Purcell: No escape from trade wars’ effects
The trade wars are hitting me where it hurts. One of my few respites from these rough-and-tumble times is to sit by an autumn bonfire with good friends, a Leaf and Bean cigar and some fine Scotch whisky. But, reports a Forbes columnist, the U.S. government announced last week a...
Jonah Goldberg: Trump’s effort to damage Biden could backfire
Is President Trump going to get Joe Biden elected? Opinions vary widely on how to characterize Trump’s now-infamous conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The president believes it was “perfect” and “beautiful.” In the middle are those who think it was bad and improper or perhaps impeachable but not necessarily...
Editorial: Esports self-sufficiency impressive
Sports isn’t necessarily what it used to be. That’s not a knock at the Pirates. A losing season is nothing new there. It’s not a crack about the Steelers’ struggles or the Penguins’ pains. It’s a reality of a major change in the sports world — whether you pay attention...
Letter to the editor: Praise for Hempfield superintendent, board over homecoming tiff
Regarding the homecoming parade tiff between Hempfield Township Supervisor Doug Weimer and the Hempfield School Board (“Hempfield supervisor ‘upset’ at changes to school homecoming parade,” Sept. 26, TribLIVE): The board and Superintendent Tammy Wolicki are to be commended for their proactive approach to a highly volatile issue — exercising legitimate...
Letter to the editor: Public schools ‘cook books’
When I read letters such as Richard Patton’s (“Tom Wolf right to act on charter schools,” Sept. 25, TribLIVE), bragging about the graduation rates of charter versus public schools, I give out a sad sigh. The public schools have to “push through” students who cannot perform simple math. I have...
