Opinion category, Page 712
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 30
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 30....
Letter to the editor: Praise for Kaley Bastine’s efforts
Hats off to Kaley Bastine, a 7-year-old who has raised a large sum of money to support our local police departments (“Harrison’s Kaley Bastine spreading police fundraising efforts to New Kensington,” Aug. 28,TribLIVE). What a terrific young lady. During my 35 years as a teacher in the Highlands School District,...
Peter Morici: Britain should bolt & join NAFTA
Divorces are messy — Brexit is no exception. All the squabbling in Parliament denies what most British voters have concluded. The European Union, spread over 28 countries and 24 official languages, may make sense as a free trade area similar to NAFTA but virtually none as a broader economic community...
Mark Kudlawiec, Daniel Webb, John Zesiger & Arnold Nadonley: Level playing field for public, charter schools
As school superintendents with decades of experience as educators, we continue to look forward to the start of school each and every fall. While our enthusiasm has not waned, some things have changed. One is the intensifying struggle each year to finalize a budget that can deliver what our students...
Editorial: No politics at homecoming
We all need a break from politics. It’s everywhere. It’s on television. It’s on social media. It’s at work and at restaurants and it shows up at dinner with family when that one relative — we all have one — just won’t stop bringing it up no matter what. Politics...
Letter to the editor: Children vaping & voting
Lori Falce pulls no punches in “Vaping defense is up in smoke.” The mother of all truth-bombs was “These aren’t grown-up decisions.” This blows up any progressive argument in favor of lowering the voting age to 16; children should not vote. Child-like citizens of voting age get addicted to the...
Letter to the editor: Rebuilding the Pirates
I’d like to add my opinion to the suggestions on how to rebuild the Pirates. The GM and all the coaching staff should go! Josh Bell should bring interest from an American League team as a DH. He is too clumsy and slow as a position player. The following players...
George Will: Best antidote for a bad election is a better election
WASHINGTON If Donald Trump were to tweet that 9 is a prime number, that Minneapolis is in Idaho, and that the sun revolves around the Earth, — “Make Earth Great Again!” — would even five Republican senators publicly disagree with even one of the tweets? This matters in assessing the...
Wayne Jones: Entrepreneurial education essential for Pittsburgh youth
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s Gender Equity Commission recently presented findings on the city’s inequity across gender and race. Those findings revealed that although Pittsburgh’s white residents are on par with white residents in other cities, the same does not apply to black residents. Black people living in Pittsburgh face higher...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Trump wields power to get his way
Traditionally, there is a fine art to going after political opponents, but Donald Trump is not that kind of an artist. Last June, when Trump was asked if he would accept political dirt about his opponents from a foreign government, he said, “I think you might want to listen, there...
Robert Torres & Randy Padfield: In emergencies, be prepared, not scared
In the past year, Pennsylvanians have experienced an unprecedented amount of rain and flooding in areas that have never flooded before, causing increased concern over the preparedness of Pennsylvanians. A study conducted by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Association revealed that only 26% of Pennsylvanians age 65 and older have a...
Jonah Goldberg: Does Team Trump think we’re idiots?
What offends me most about the whistleblower-Ukraine-Biden story isn’t the obvious corruption of it all. It’s the way members of Team Trump assume we’re all idiots who won’t notice they’ve abruptly shifted their narrative. At first, it seemed like a familiar scenario of allegations met with denials. The Washington Post...
Editorial: Law shouldn’t bend to outrage
Outrage is a good catalyst but a poor navigator. A physical assault on two women at an Exxon station in Pittsburgh’s Marshall- Shadeland neighborhood has prompted huge response. Viral video of the incident shows the black women leave their car to go into the gas station, ostensibly to ask for a...
Sounding off: Property tax thwarts homeowners’ plans
My wife and I have reached the point in our lives where the kids are gone and our older home and land require more work than we’re able/willing to do, so we are attempting to downsize to a smaller property. Unfortunately, a prohibiting factor is the high property tax on...
Letter to the editor: Think about morals, ethics when you vote
We are desperately in need of action in a moral and ethical way. Vote! Always be aware of who you vote for, and then act in a moral and ethical way. Joyce C. Morgan Greensburg...
Letter to the editor: Our environmental debt
We are leaving coming generations a very heavy burden of debt. At some point in the near future this debt will come due and they will be forced to pay. I am not talking about dollar debt. I am talking about carbon debt. I am talking about the way we...
Letter to the editor: Who wants self-driving cars?
Some folks, somewhere within our consumer-driven economy, have decided to spend a major effort to develop self-driving vehicles. The idea of being able to sit back in your own automobile and head out onto the open road and have the driving taken care of by some automated system and not...
Letter to the editor: America needs God’s grace
The anger and rage are palpable. The divisiveness is nearing civil unrest. Our moral depravity is of biblical proportions. America the beautiful is turning very ugly. Vitriol spews from television, radio, newsprint and social media as if from the mouth of a serpent. We vainly attempt to change the meaning...
Walter Williams: Camille Paglia, intelligent radical feminist
Camille Paglia is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has been a faculty member since 1984. Paglia describes herself as transgender, but unlike so many other transgender people, she is pro-capitalism and hostile to those who’d restrict free speech....
John Stossel: Oceans new frontier for seasteaders
When political arguments aren’t getting you anywhere, what can you do? Start your own country! Unfortunately, most of the world’s land is controlled by rapacious governments unwilling to let others experiment. But fortunately, that still leaves oceans. If people move 12 miles offshore (or 24 miles in the case of...
Editorial: Take it slow on marijuana legalization
“Legalize marijuana” is not a new refrain in Pennsylvania. You could hear it on college campuses. You could hear it from libertarian groups. It came more and more as other states made lighting up permissible. The old song has been sampled often as medical marijuana has been OK’d and the...
Letter to the editor: Legalize Sunday hunting
Regarding the article “Sunday hunting push faces obstacles in Pennsylvania,” Sept. 14, TribLIVE): It is time to take the Pennsylvania Farm bureau out of the mix altogether. Legalize Sunday hunting in state forests and on state gamelands and be done with it. The bureau claims written permission from landowners is...
Letter to the editor: Reasons to be Pittsburgh proud
There are many reasons why I am proud to be from Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs. Inventions from Pittsburgh include the polio vaccine, the first radio broadcast from KDKA in 1920, the first Ferris wheel, the first movie theater, the first baseball stadium (Forbes Field), the Big Mac (on McKnight...
Paul Kengor: Divine plan of John Paul II — and Reagan
Fifty years ago, Sept. 20, 1969, a Polish cardinal unknown to Americans and people in our region quietly slipped into historic St. Stanislaw Kostka Church in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. The kneeler where Cardinal Karol Wojtyla paused to pray is now marked at that church. It commemorates not just a Polish...
Laurels & lances: Habeas corpus, handshakes, hard topics
Laurel: To pursuing the law despite the obstacles. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. has charged Douglas Berry with homicide in the case of Elizabeth Wiesenfeld despite the fact that the 67-year-old Baldwin woman’s body has not been found. The law may be built on a premise of...
