Opinion category, Page 740
Editorial: School tax credits are taxes too
What are you OK paying more for every year? Automatically. Without question. What would you sign up for today knowing that it could — and would — escalate annually every Jan. 1? Is there anything? Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a bill to that effect. The topic of the bill is...
Letter to the editor: Support action on lymphedema treatment
I am a cancer survivor who also has lymphedema, which is painful, debilitating and incurable but is treatable with compression garments and a systemic massage/pumping system that assists in removing the excess fluids from affected tissue. Medicare and many insurances currently do not cover these treatments, and many lymphedema patients...
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh’s air must be improved
Pittsburgh’s air As someone who just moved to Pittsburgh, I was shocked to discover the gruesome facts surrounding air quality. One out of every three days has unhealthy air quality. The area has become unhealthy to live in. You, your family and your neighbors can play a role in paving...
Letter to the editor: The meaning of ‘free’
free adjective 1. not under the control or power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes. 2. not or no longer confined or in prison. free adverb 1. without cost or payment. free verb 1. release from captivity, confinement or slavery. Seventy-five years have passed since...
Erin Wall: Through the thorns, remembering Antwon Rose II
The Woodland Hills School District is not unique in the problems we face. Yet, we are uniquely forged from the steel-making roots of our past. Like all districts, we strive to provide a top-notch educational institution for our student body. We also seek to lay the foundation of a brick-and-mortar...
Pat Buchanan: Russiagate is no Watergate
“History is repeating itself, and with a vengeance,” John Dean told the judiciary committee, drawing a parallel between Watergate, which brought down Richard Nixon, and “Russiagate” which has bedeviled Donald Trump. But what strikes this veteran of Nixon’s White House is not the similarities but the stark differences. Watergate began...
Editorial: Antwon Rose case has no black-white answers
If there is anything we know a year after the death of Antwon Rose II, it is that nothing is black and white. Even when it seems that everything is black and white. Rose was black. He was 17. He was a kid running from a cop. Michael Rosfeld was...
Letter to the editor: Nothing to admire about media
Letter-writer Richard Davis states that the Mueller investigation vindicates journalists (“Mueller report vindicates journalists,” May 28, TribLIVE). How so? Where’s the evidence of Russian collusion we’ve been promised for the last two years? Turns out it was all wishful thinking. He also states that the media’s “constant vigilance protects our...
Letter to the editor: Shout-outs to Greenburg merchants
I want to give a shout-out to Bob at Lapels in downtown Greensburg. Our grandson came into town for a job interview. At the last minute he realized he had forgotten his tie. As we only have bow ties in the house, I went to Lapels in a panic. Bob...
Letter to the editor: GOP started obstructionism
I would like to enlighten letter-writer Ron Raymond (“Obama vs. Trump”) and refresh his memory. President Obama wasn’t ineffective by choice. He was obstructed from passing laws by Republicans, namely Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham. They even refused to let Obama follow his presidential duties to nominate a Supreme...
Tom Purcell: Our national debt is out of control, but nobody seems to care
Breaking news: Federal spending is out of control. I’m kidding, of course. Spending, deficits and debt have been out of control for years. It’s just that last week we broke yet another record. For the first time in our nation’s history, federal spending topped $3 trillion in a fiscal year’s...
Editorial: Defusing hate with healing
There’s nothing like a big ball of flame to show that there is more to stopping mass murder than gun control. While some people are pulling back and forth on the tug-of-war rope that is trying to tie up guns and bullets in fingerprint-locked safes, can someone please find a...
Letter to the editor: Tariff walls to trade
In his column “Danger of dabbling in protectionism” (May 11, TribLIVE), George Will writes that “U.S. industrial capacity has never been larger … .” Capacity is one thing; the utilization rate of that capacity is another thing. Take Allegheny Ludlum’s new plant. I don’t believe it has ever run at...
Letter to the editor: Trump should thank Michael Avenatti
In a presidential race that began partially as a publicity stunt, Trump quickly learned that bare-knuckles political hucksterism would work. He understood that the people running much of the national press, and their dimwitted clients, the modern leftist Democratic Party, were more dysfunctional than he could ever be, and would...
Letter to the editor: Men 18-26 must register for Selective Service
Registration in the United States Selective Service System is a critical element of our national security and defense, it’s important to communities and it is critical to all young men living in the country. Simply put, registration is a law, a civic duty, and assures that men can apply for...
Editorial cartoons for the week of June 17
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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of June 17
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Robert Torres: Older Pennsylvanians need more than minimum wage
It’s personal to us at the Department of Aging that more than 18% of workers earning less than $15 per hour are age 55 or older. That means 374,000 older adults are not making a living wage as they try to afford food and housing, on top of those facing...
Editorial: Communities rally for lightning victims’ families
When lightning strikes. So often, that means something powerful. Something awesome. Something that comes out of the blue and dazzles with something you never realized before. When lightning strikes, it can mean good fortune. It can mean a great idea. It can mean a stunning opportunity. And lightning striking twice?...
Letter to the editor: Killers & the unborn
A recent Sunday edition of the Trib had a headline stating, “Push to repeal death penalty emerges in Pa.” For a split second I thought there might be an effort to outlaw abortion and save the unborn children from the death penalty. However, when I returned to reality, I saw...
Letter to the editor: Woman’s right to choose ends when life begins
Regarding Jim Harger’s (“Women’s health choices should be their own,” June 5, TribLIVE) and Robin Hammonds’ (“With abortion outlawed, who will take care of the babies?” May 18, TribLIVE) letters on abortion: Religion aside, I would say that if you agree that my right to swing my arm ends where...
Letter to the editor: PAT buses not safe for school children
The decision of Pittsburgh Public Schools to eliminate school buses for many Environmental Charter Middle School students is unacceptable. Allowing children as young as 12 to ride a PAT bus with the general public is extremely unsafe. During the year, children will be getting on and off the bus in...
S.E. Cupp: Spying, traitors & Donald Trump
Just put it on the towering pile of scripts even the writers of “Veep” would have rejected as too absurd. But it’s shockingly, appallingly, real. See if you can follow this. On Tuesday morning, the president’s national security adviser, John Bolton, announces North Korea is one of five countries he...
Antony Davies & James R. Harrigan: View political promises with healthy skepticism
Fewer than 18 months stand between us and the next presidential election, and politicians are tripping over each other to offer voters more “free” things, including everything from health care to college to a guaranteed basic income. But voters should be fostering a healthy sense of skepticism. If there is...
George Will: To beat Trump, Democrats must practice a politics of modesty
WASHINGTON “It is a great advantage to a president,” said the 30th of them, “and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.” Or, Calvin Coolidge would say today, a great woman. While today’s incumbent advertises himself as an “extremely...
