Letters to the Editor category, Page 209

When communism collapsed in the country where I was born, food disappeared from store shelves. We waited in line for rations of bread and sugar. Many evenings we had mandatory power outages. I know communism and its consequences. When I hear talk of communism from the radical right, it mostly...

Concerning the letter “Election investigation needed” and to others who have expressed similar views, I respond: Why? You would not believe the investigation results anyway, unless they come to the conclusions you want them to. This is why some of you watch only Fox News or similar media that only...

“We the people” elect candidates to represent the best interest of our country. We do not elect them to run the country into the ground with their hate against each other, fighting between parties, misuse of our tax dollars and immoral ideas and actions to silence those of us who...

At the recent Allegheny County Health Department hearing on new regulations for the Clairton Coke Works, I was touched and shocked by the testimony from the people of Clairton and Glassport. What these folks have had to put up with is unbelievable. The Clairton Coke Works produces more air pollution...

The hotly disputed 2020 presidential election, resulting in the ascendancy of Joe Biden into the Oval Office, has proven to be a Rorschach test of various optimisms to many outside observers. At least, that is what seems to be the theme of the many quoted in Deb Erdley’s Page 1...

As a health care provider and daughter to a Pennsylvania senior, I believe we both have met the criteria for Phase 1A of the covid-19 vaccine rollout in the state. It has been frustrating and time consuming as well as disturbing that the flow of vaccine administration has been less...

Saw on TV that Dr. Anthony Fauci indicated by April anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Obvious concern: If there is not an unlimited supply of vaccine by then, then opening up to everyone would be beyond chaotic for registering using the wild system Westmoreland has now. Example:...

The Trib reported that the Pennsylvania Legislature is attempting to strip the no-excuse absentee ballot and the permanent early voting lists from the laws (“Race on to alter voting rules,” Jan. 30). We live in the 21st century and have the advantage of modern technology, and should continue to use...

I believe in honesty, the rule of law and our democracy. The Republican senators and representatives who continue to downplay the January riot, in which five people died and 140 were injured, are ignoring the most important principle of our democracy. Fair elections and a peaceful transfer of power are...

I am in the proper age grouping to receive the covid-19 vaccination, but like so many seniors, I am being told there are no shots available, not at my drug store, hospital, doctor’s office or pharmacy. But yet I hear that Heinz Field may be the site of a mass...

Just a quick fact-check to Raymond Smith’s letter “Missing Trump already” (Feb. 2, TribLIVE): Smith stated that “the stock market decline during Biden’s first week cost me more than three times the price of my first house.” On Jan. 20, the day President Biden took office, the Dow Jones Industrial...

“Once your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. In days gone by, there were people who said to us: ‘You believe in incomprehensible, contradictory and impossible things because we have...

Extremists from the right attacked our Capitol. Extremists from the left burned our cities and attacked our police. Over 60 million voters believe our election was fraudulent, and only 10% trust Congress. The majority of voters do not trust mainstream or social media. Just where is our land of the...

As the pandemic keeps getting worse, so does the shame. Shame on the Pennsylvania Health Department for its vaccine rollout plans. Nobody giving the coronavirus vaccine has any vaccine to give. Web pages have been swamped with folks trying to register for a vaccination. Phone calls are going unanswered. My...

As a lifelong resident of Westmoreland County, I am appalled at the cruelty and ignorance on display in this county. Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in American history with the storming of the Capitol during what should have been the routine certification of the Electoral College votes....

I believe that the leftist, progressive, socialist movement has shown itself to be the polar opposite and enemy of our country’s founding principles and a cancer in our society. The Democratic Party is its face with President Obama’s promise to “fundamentally transform” our country. The overwhelming majority of news media,...

It’s hard to know where to begin to refute such nonsense as the letter “When everything is free, we’re not free” (Feb. 1, TribLIVE). The Dems will tell us where to work and live? How much we earn? I sure hadn’t heard that. No constitutional rights? It’s the Republicans who...

The Pennsylvania covid-19 vaccine rollout plan laid bare deep inequalities. People in the high-risk group who qualify today and need the vaccine the most are unable to navigate the technology-driven process. Seniors who don’t have a deep understanding of technology are expected to fast-finger-race to register when the announcement is...

There were two very different headlines on stories on the same topic, Pittsburgh Brewing Co. moving its Iron City Beer production from Latrobe to East Deer, in the Feb. 5 Tribune-Review Westmoreland (“City Brewing in Latrobe to lose Iron City account”) and Valley News Dispatch (“Something big on tap: Pittsburgh...

As covid-19 paranoia runs rampant, so does a virus that truly threatens our very existence: stupidity and selfishness. As a 62-year-old lifelong independent, I’ve studied politics for 50 years, and I sit in the middle of a left-leaning agenda of those who hate America. They foolishly think the world is...

As we heard in the news: Hillary Clinton called Republicans “deplorables.” Katie Couric and others said Trump supporters in Congress should be “deprogrammed.” Maybe the type of people making these comments should listen instead of breathing in all that swamp gas. I have been a Republican for about 50 years....

Hey Joe … c’mon man! President Trump got the vaccine developed in a historic time frame. All you have to do is deliver it. This is just a logistics problem; no science involved. Use your “plan,” call your five-star generals and get our military involved, or better better yet, call...

Why stop at Washington and Lincoln: What about those pesky Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock? We are all specks in time. We are all riding on the backs of those who came before, and I would say we owe them a huge debt. As I lay in my warm bed, I...

For all the people who get their news from television, it is time to make the big switch, since the occupant of the White House is now the other party. If you want to hear that everything that comes out of the White House is the best thing for the...

Here is an environmental initiative that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York should endorse: Remove all internal combustion engines from luxury yachts, pleasure craft and private planes and make the owners replace the power source with wind and solar only. And those misplaced workers in the Kerry/Heinz world can learn...