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Letter to the editor: Skepticism is healthy when it comes to politicians
Joseph Sabino Mistick’s column “Public ‘referees’ there to protect us” characterizing the recent pronouncements of political leaders on the covid-19 crisis or 2020 election results as statements of “moral conscience,” made in the spirit of referees officiating a boxing match, requires a true leap of faith. While acknowledging in passing...
The Stroller, Jan. 3, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s fundraiser or community event in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. HOPE Center requesting gas card donations The Alle-Kiski Area HOPE Center is seeking donations of gift cards in $10 increments from Sheetz or Get...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 3
Baldwin Borough Stanley Mezyk sold property at 3808 Cynthia Drive to Kenneth Martinez for $135,000. George Lion sold property at 460 Jenne Drive to Brooke Smith for $195,000. Carl Chiocca sold property at 492 Macassar Drive to Pietro Anthony Nuovo for $193,500. Terence Boland sold property at 2602 Michael Drive...
Bridgeville, Carnegie area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 3
Bridgeville Lori Koteles sold property at 917 Edna St. to Michael Hemman for $189,900. Judith Capurso sold property at 1001 Grandview Ave. Unit 604 to Kathleen Capilongo for $62,000. Carnegie KAAR Services sold property at 321 Second Ave. to Scott and Lori Ritter for $27,861. KAAR Services sold property at...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 3
Pine Pine Develop CO sold property at 722 Mulkerrin Ct to NVR Inc. for $180,000. Lars Eric Rickard Petersson sold property at 9010 Peregrine Drive to Robert and Nicole Dolan for $780,000. Pine Development Co. sold property at 635 Tullamore Trl to NVR Inc. for $180,000. Richland Douglas Beyerl sold...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 3
Franklin Park Rory Seifert sold property at 2542 Brandt School Road to Andrew and Brittany Prischak Runstedler for $190,000. FP Rochester LLC sold property at Windsor Ct to Maronda Homes LLC for $135,000. FP Rochester LLC sold property at Windsor Ct to Maronda Homes LLC for $270,000. Marshall Rand Group...
Editorial: Why is vaccine distribution slowed?
The federal government planned for 20 million coronavirus vaccinations by the end of 2020. That has proved to be a bit of an overestimation. The actual totals of about 3 million “certainly are not at the numbers we wanted to be at the end of December,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said...
Peter Morici: Biden can bring nation together with bold infrastructure program
President-elect Joe Biden needs a large-scale project that will summon the political class and national imagination to rescue the country from another four years of partisan distrust. A bold infrastructure program to reshape the American economy for a more prosperous and greener future could be just the ticket. Congestion alone...
Dr. G. Richard Olds: Physicians educated abroad can fill covid-induced doctor shortage
The United States will be short nearly 140,000 doctors by 2033, according to the latest estimates from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Covid-19 may drive the number of doctor shortages up further. Large numbers of physicians are leaving the profession. Consequently, we must begin preparing now to rebuild the...
A Florida-bound boat with 20 aboard went missing. The Coast Guard’s search has ended
MIAMI — The first sign something was wrong came Tuesday when Bahamian authorities reached out to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Southeast Division to alert them that 20 people aboard a blue and white 29-foot Mako Cuddy Cabin vessel had gone missing. The passengers were in the oft-cited Bermuda Triangle. The...
There’s good and bad news for immigrants waiting to take steps toward naturalization
MIAMI — More than a million immigrants in the United States who have applied for U.S. citizenship through naturalization, adjustment of status and other benefits have been waiting for their biometric services appointment at a local Application Support Center (ASC) to provide their fingerprints, photograph and/or signature. Due to the...
Sounding off: What’s the thinking on ‘living our lives’?
Headlines in the Dec. 13 Trib included “Calls flood ambulance services” and “Hospitals plead for public’s help.” Excela Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carol Fox describes staff holding the phone for a dying covid patient to hear a hymn sung by a pastor, and others holding the hands of patients...
Letter to the editor: Silent acquiescence to evil
In his letter “Why aren’t we autonomous?” (Dec. 17, TribLIVE), Don Carrera asks the whereabouts of all the free people who previously opposed despotic abuse of political authority. The tragedy he observes is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty...
Judge tosses out Gohmert suit against Pence over electoral votes
A federal judge in Texas threw out a Hail Mary lawsuit filed against Vice President Mike Pence by a Republican congressman who argued the vice president has the authority to unilaterally reverse Donald Trump’s election loss during a joint session of Congress Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle on Friday...
Letter to the editor: Red-light grant money should be refused
Regarding the article “Busy Frankstown Road intersection in Penn Hills to get facelift using more than $300K grant” (Dec. 10, TribLIVE): While Automated Red Light Enforcement (ARLE ) grant projects can be worthwhile, no municipality should accept the money, since it came from red-light cameras — which should be banned...
Letter to the editor: Can’t forgive reps’ approval of Act 77
Remember, remember the third of November. Although he may not have actually said it, P.T. Barnum is credited with saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” I believe with high confidence we can apply this saying to Gov. Tom Wolf’s manipulation of the Republican Pennsylvania Legislature in September 2019. Act...
The Stroller, Jan. 2, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s fundraiser or community event in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Children’s charity conducting calendar fundraiser Superheroes Believe in Miracles, a charity that serves children facing illness, disability or limitations is selling 2021 calendars that...
Laurels & lances of 2020
Laurel: To a life lived in service to others. On the last day of 2020, Pennsylvania lost a bedrock political figure. Dick Thornburgh, a two-term governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, died at the age of 88. He left behind a legacy of work...
It’s a boy! First New Year’s baby born to Greensburg woman
Siearra Pantojas of Greensburg received an early New Year’s Day surprise. A healthy baby boy. Pantojas, 21, was out shopping when she went into labor early on New Year’s Eve. After about five hours of hard labor, she welcomed son Bentlee Cole, the first 2021 baby born at Forbes Hospital...
From BLM to rallying teammates, how McKeesport grad Johnasia Cash found her voice with Penn State women’s basketball
Johnasia Cash realized in July that she wanted more out of her experience as a college basketball player. She wanted to freely express herself. She wanted her voice to be heard. She wanted to continue to grow as a player. So, the 6-foot-2 forward — a three-year starter for Dallas’...
Letter to the editor: Why are legislators first in line for vaccines?
Move over hospital workers, step aside first responders, get out of the way old people, forget the nursing homes, because we have “very important” legislators who really need to get ahead of all of you. The politicians — including Sens. Bob Casey and Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Speaker...
Letter to the editor: Nursing home tales
Anne is an orphan. She lies between 60 and 70 years of age. Her pure white hair cascades down her back like a waterfall. Cut short at the ear level with bangs in the front, the rest of Anne’s hair slips over the back of her head, not to be...
Editorial: Prioritizing problems for 2021
It’s 2021! Everything is going to change, right? Well, let’s not put too much pressure on the healing power of flipping a page on a calendar. The New Year is definitely a time of hope and optimism. Even when things are good, there’s something about New Year’s Day that just...
Letter to the editor: Closing schools is not containing spread
Regarding the recent letters to the editor from the Pennsylvania Pediatric Health Network (“Mitigate to end pandemic”) and Dave Bonazelli (“Schools should be online”), and the article describing the Greensburg-Salem school district’s decision to shut down in-person schooling and athletics until Jan. 26 (“Greensburg Salem shuts down athletics until Jan....
The Stroller, Jan. 1, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s fundraiser or community event in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Happy New Year! May the year ahead be a healthy and prosperous one for all our readers and their families! Animal Protectors seeking newspaper...
