Letters to the Editor category, Page 148

To letter-writer Richard London (“We all benefit from ‘socialism,’ ” Feb. 13 TribLIVE): The following are corrections to some of the things I believe you’ve got wrong. The definition of socialism does not change relative to its practitioners. It still means government control over business and industry no matter who’s doing...

The recent collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park is a wake-up call to correct misguided government spending priorities. Pennsylvania’s 2021-22 budget is $39.8 billion. Allegheny County approved an operating budget of $942.5 million and $182.5 million in a capital improvement budget. The City of Pittsburgh is...

What is happening to our brains? I saw on TV where tennis player Novak Djokovic was barred from playing in the Australian Open because he refuses to get the covid-19 vaccine. He has been barred from playing in other tournaments as well. Then I change the channel and see a...

Many Pennsylvanians will be appalled to learn that wildlife killing contests — a bloodsport comparable to dogfighting — occur right here in our state. In fact, Pennsylvania has more contests than almost any other state, with January and February being peak season. In these detestable spectacles, participants kill native wild...

Recent letter-writers have said “the world is laughing at us.” If the world is laughing at us, here’s why. Sixty courts, including the Supreme Court, said there is no evidence of fraud, yet former President Trump continues to try to overturn the election. Many Republican lawmakers have said in private...

I worked at No. 19 rolling mill for the Jones and Laughlin Steel Co. in 1971. The United SteelWorkers contract specified the number of workers to cover each shift, and I remember some shifts I was assigned to sweeping floors. Sweeping a steel mill floor is like vacuuming a coal...

Jack Bologna’s letter “Facts on ‘global warming’ ” (Feb. 14, TribLIVE) quotes “facts” that are out of date. I also call attention to Bologna’s sick ad-hominum device, attacking right-wing boogeyman Al Gore as foil. Such tricks are signs of weakness. Gore is merely summing up what every science academy in...

Good news overall, but “Focus of Pittsburgh’s proposed Mon Oakland Connector project changes” (Feb. 11, TribLIVE) needs a few corrections. The Mon Oakland Connector drew opposition from a wider range of Pittsburghers than “public transit advocates” and “some Greenfield residents.” Neighbors from Hazelwood, Greenfield, Oakland, Panther Hollow, Four Mile Run...

Kenneth R. Nath’s letter “Government should start doing more with less” (Feb. 11, TribLIVE) is a valuable comment about local government. Hundreds of elderly patients died in nursing homes during the pandemic. A bridge collapsed after it was inspected and deemed safe to use. These failures were not due to...

Jonah Goldberg’s op-ed “RNC’s idea of ‘legitimate political discourse’ shows how far gone it is” was one of the most vicious, descriptively unpleasant and emotionally raw points of view I have ever read. However, Goldberg’s rage keeps him from seeing certain relevant facts. When the Jan. 6 committee was being...

Abortion is the killing of innocent human beings. Forty-nine years and over 62 million innocent children simply discarded. How can anyone be so heartless and cruel? How can anyone justify such a heinous act? If you do not want the child, please don’t kill it. Give it up for adoption...

I do not like when Ben Roethlisberger is portrayed as our greatest quarterback. Terry Bradshaw has been through more battles than Roethlisberger ever saw, and people keep forgetting he won four Super Bowls. Roethlisberger had great defenses the same as Bradshaw, but he survived before all of the rule changes....

How do you explain the many extreme, conflicting viewpoints in the pro-Biden and anti-Biden letters in this paper? Are both sides getting the same set of “facts” from their media? For example, I believe that MSNBC and CNN and much of the mainstream media are in the back pocket of...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s covid rule-maker, recently challenged Fox News as a source of covid misinformation. This time, Fauci’s ire was directed at Tucker Carlson and his frequent guest, Alex Berenson. Berenson is an investigative journalist who challenges the “vax everyone” mandates. He reports on vaccine effectiveness, questions the lack...

“Early on, state and federal subsidies were offered to hospitals throughout the nation for administering specific treatments and reimbursing hospitals for deaths classified with covid-19. These subsidies are poor incentives for achieving the mutual goal of minimizing suffering.” This is a quote from Garrett Ringler’s letter “End covid reimbursement policies”...

In the past, I thought the Republican Party wanted to return to an idealized version of the 1950s and 1960s. Men were the breadwinners. A much lower number of women were employed outside the home. However, recently I have begun to realize that what the GOP really wants is to...

Where is the coverage of the disclosure of the Durham investigation that the Clinton campaign was involved in the Trump-Russia collusion that dominated news for over three years, tearing this country apart? Is the media complicit in this serious crime? Richard Hohmann Mechanicsburg...

No legal registered citizen who votes is being denied their right to vote. No one. Each of the 50 states makes up election procedures, constitutionally. Every two years there are major elections, for president and Congress. That’s plenty of time for anyone who wants to vote to do so. Find...

Last year in a truly unremarkable way, I became a target of the Democratic Party. How did this happen? I bought my first firearm. I’m a middle-aged white guy who never grew up around guns and before last year, I knew nothing about them. My initial interest came about after...

It seems we have a hypocrite at the helm of our nation, saying one thing while hiding what’s really going on. He tells the American people there is no border problem, and focuses on people coming from just three countries; meanwhile, there are thousands coming from more than 100 countries,...

In January, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the urgent need to safeguard Americans’ right to vote. In Pennsylvania, and the rest of the country, voter suppression efforts include gerrymandering and voter ID requirements. Pennsylvanians are at risk of losing their right to vote. This disproportionately impacts...

The pro-life movement focuses on the unborn, which is a good cause. However, there seems to be an anti-life movement when it comes to gun control laws, vaccines and mask mandates and climate change. All of these issues also affect human life. Marilyn Dvorsky Elizabethtown...

Our family received our free covid tests in the mail. We considered it quite ironic (and disgusting) to see that they were made in China. I was tempted to “return to sender.” Instead I’m throwing them in the trash. Regis Brentin Scott...

Why is it that when you have selected an individual from one of the two major voting parties, they feel you are obligated to continue donating to them when they haven’t accomplished anything they originally promised to do when first running for office? If at any time a politician would...

The educators and support professionals of the Pennsylvania State Education Association are proud to celebrate Black History Month. Black history is American history, and we believe that it must be part of the curriculum all year long. That includes telling the stories of Black Americans that are too often left...