Letters to the Editor category, Page 188

I am 66 years old and grew up in Pittsburgh watching the Pirates at Forbes Field and Three Rivers Stadium and then PNC Park. Some of the best sporting events in Pittsburgh happened at those venues. The best one I experienced was the 2013 National League wild card game. Since...

The Republicans saying they are going to put people back to work will hurt their chances. We now have seen people want a check from the government instead of a job, as many people will not come back to work even when there is a job waiting for them. Clem...

Based on all of the newspaper articles as well as the local and national news, I congratulate President Biden for a job well done. He must be doing a great job since all we read and see is either congratulatory or at least neutral. Unlike his predecessor, by this time,...

I read Patrick Varine’s article “Protect PT appeals fracking well-pad approvals to Pa. Supreme Court” (May 21, TribLIVE). I was at the Penn Township zoning hearings as a witness for Protect PT for the Metis and Gaia pads. I have a few comments about the case. First, much has been...

Are your sources of news making you a political fool? I hate liars, and news sites are the biggest liars of today. I read 10 or so different websites of news per week, some that I know are opposite of my politics. If I read “anonymous sources say,” I disregard...

I am a resident of West Newton, home of the Great Allegheny Passage and the Lower Youghiogheny River, which was placed on the American Rivers advocacy group’s most endangered rivers list in 2020. The permitting of the Invenergy power plant in Elizabeth Township is a three-layered threat to the Great...

Regarding Sharon McKnight’s letter “Why no tributes to Officer Brian Shaw?” (May 27, TribLIVE): I suppose you have missed, or passed on going to, the motorcycle memorial rides for Shaw? Hundreds of bikers attend, and they are covered by this newspaper. He is not forgotten. Ken Murdy Buffalo Township...

While he is “reading” the teleprompter, does President Biden have any idea that numerous crimes, such as the gang rape of a little girl that was so violent that her screams destroyed her vocal cords, occur regularly at “his” border? Also, while his apparent irresponsibility somehow gets impunity, does he...

On May 24, the Franklin Regional School District held a public hearing on the future of the empty Heritage and Newlonsburg elementary schools. It was a public hearing, but the public wasn’t allowed to attend. Residents could submit a 500-word comment to the board secretary, which was placed in the...

Three separate but related thoughts came to mind as I read the article “IRS records: UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff made $9.5M in 2019; pay tops $1M for 32 employees” (May 14, TribLIVE). The first was our growing income inequality and the damage it does to our society. Executive compensation of...

As a community, we are all trying to recover from the covid-19 pandemic. We’ve seen the profound effect of this virus, especially among those in the long-term care continuum. Covid-19 is still present. Its impact has not subsided. And no matter the preventive measures prescribed by our state and federal...

As a senior citizen who has become “invisible” to most political people who are under the age of 50, I believe our country needs to have more political “moderates” and “centrists” than we do now. I think we were better off in the 1960s when about 20% to 30% of...

With the U.S. economy struck hard by covid-19, you may think an easy budget cut would be the international affairs budget, but I urge you to reconsider. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said, “By building new markets overseas for American products, the international affairs budget creates jobs and...

The lies, deception and corruption occurring in America today are of biblical proportions. The assault on our psychological, intellectual, physical and spiritual existence is vicious and relentless. We are in the fight of our lives against the powers of darkness. History proves that in this fiercely competitive and corrupt world,...

Every time I open the newspaper, I see two comments: First, I am not paying my “fair share” of my money to the government, and the government is going to make greedy corporations pay more taxes, not the average citizen. To the first point, what gives the government the right...

Equal time — that’s all I want. For the past four years, I listened to President Trump being called vicious names by Democrats, i.e., racist, Russian spy, many swear words, neanderthal, one who will lead us to war. Democrats made fun of him because he nearly slipped while walking down...

For the Allegheny Valley prodigal son, whose visit was marred by exposure to Trump signs (“Loyalty to Trump has gotten Allegheny Valley nowhere,” April 8, TribLIVE), might I suggest a different route? How about traversing the Democratic Grand Canyon of money pits along the East Coast, where nary a Trump...

Donald Trump is being blamed for the Jan. 6 “riots” at the U.S. Capitol. Let’s do a fact-check on Joe Biden. Since taking office, the U.S. has seen a huge spike in homicides and mass shootings, as well as police officers struck by gunfire. I believe this is because of...

It’s the end of the school year, and the various musical, choral and stage productions at Highlands High School have been wrapping up. The results have been stunning, especially given the constraints of the pandemic. The school’s concert band, stage band and jazz ensemble delivered jaw-dropping performances akin to college-level...

With the presidential election finally over, I had hoped we were past the lies, name-calling, spreading of hate and other anti- and un-American activities that have been used to attack each other, our Constitution, our justice system and our very lives, as the country has been thrust toward a civil...

We observe Memorial Day in remembrance of the lives laid down to secure our freedom. Religion and speech are the first two freedoms enshrined in our Bill of Rights. It is proper to emphasize then, that they are not from the hand of government but from the God who makes...

Letter-writer Bob McBride (“Useful idiots of Democratic Party”) argues that those of us who are Democrats apparently have some kind of hive mind where we glean our information from such “socialist” sources as CNN, thus making us incapable of independent thought and action. He also makes disturbing accusations that we...

We urge the Commonwealth Court to reject the misguided request by the Murrysville Watch Committee to overturn the municipality’s 4-year-old ordinance allowing unconventional drilling such as hydraulic fracturing in rural- residential overlay districts (“Citizen group appeals to Commonwealth Court to overturn Murrysville fracking ordinance,” May 11, TribLIVE). As the May 10...

I am 66 years old and grew up in Pittsburgh watching the Pirates at Forbes Field and Three Rivers Stadium and then PNC Park. Some of the best sporting events in Pittsburgh happened at those venues. The best one I experienced was the 2013 National League wild card game. Since...

Borrowing from the sentiments of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., I have a dream that one day our children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by their sexual identity, orientation or gender, but rather by the content of their character. Keith Kondrich Swisshelm Park...