Letters to the Editor category, Page 252

How the President Trump-named “Chinese virus” became the “Trump Virus,” bringing the most powerful country in the world to its knees: After a single case of coronavirus in China became a pandemic and reached our shores in January, we had a federal response I believe was incompetent. Trump and his...

Amazing, the stupidity of the general population. Even though words of caution were presented when states eased restrictions and allowed some businesses to reopen, too many threw caution to the wind. Personal desires for a drink or dining out have contributed to the resurgence of covid-19 on a nationwide level....

Simply put, any vote for Joe Biden is a vote against unborn children and a vote for your pocketbook. The rest doesn’t matter. Susan Keyser East Huntingdon...

Mark Madden is, in my opinion, 100% incorrect about playing college sports (“College sports need to tap out for fall season,” July 10, TribLIVE). I believe there is zero reason for colleges to be canceling seasons, or to be holding classes online. (The same argument applies to K-12 even more...

So many Westmoreland County residents are more than ready to return to work. While we need to continue observing public health guidelines, we also need to make sure our leaders are putting smart policies in place. These policies need to ensure that businesses will have access to reliable, affordable energy...

To put this upcoming election in perspective, one only need go back to 2016 when President Obama dismissed Joe Biden, his vice president, as the Democrats’ endorsed candidate for president, and instead christened Hillary Clinton. So this is what we have as the left’s best to offer in 2020, an...

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler’s op-ed “Trump built greatest American economy before. He’ll do it again” (June 22, TribLIVE), intended as a kumbaya moment for unity, was actually a commercial for Donald Trump, as noted by letter-writers Leonard Mucci (“Reschenthaler drank the Kool-Aid,” July 6, TribLIVE) and Joanne Garing (“Reschenthaler’s Trump view...

Never in my almost 65 years have I seen our nation in such an absurd and perilous state. We are nothing less than an empire in the final stages of collapse. We have replaced common sense with nonsense. Politics and news media are discredited beyond redemption. I believe we have...

Regarding the article “Veterans left out of census count” (July 12, TribLIVE): Yes, veterans should be considered, included and counted in every aspect of our country. One problem is there are veterans and there are others who are not really veterans. A veteran who was drafted (years back) was asked...

Many businesses follow the state rules, although not easy, and Pennsylvania has shown a decrease in covid-19 positives and deaths. Responsible businesses have even gone beyond state requirements. Unfortunately, a few businesses choose to disregard guidelines. As the saying goes, a bad apple spoils the whole bunch. Recently I stopped...

I’m writing to find out where the talk about the essential workers’ hazard pay went. I have worked through this whole pandemic and put my family at risk every time I walk into my home after work. There are people who don’t have jobs who got a stimulus check, and...

If you are wondering what is wrong with America lately, just look at “education.” Annually we pay over $600 billion to educate more than 50 million students. So what do we get for our money? Half of our students are not proficient in either mathematics or science and 40% are...

As a sign of solidarity and an exercise in empathy and understanding, I propose our elected officials take a 100% pay cut until the current heath and economic crisis is brought under control. The money could be redirected to patients with mounting bills, small businesses and essential workers. Perhaps our...

Do Black lives matter? Such a question/concern should never even have to be raised. Can hope exist for real social justice and achievable joyful life, unencumbered by divisions innumerable when people have to declare that their lives matter? Yet, there may be hope if we accept that race is a...

Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s report on natural gas, as described in the editorial “Grand jury report on fracking indicts the state” (July 7, TribLIVE), is “factually and legally inaccurate.” Those aren’t my words; those are the words from the dedicated Department of Environmental Protection professionals who also described the report...

A Joe Biden victory is the best hope Republicans have. Because if Biden loses, President Trump will continue to drag down the party for four more years. Republicans are already in serious danger of losing more seats than anyone ever imagined because they have protected and enabled Trump. If the...

What does it say about the character of a man who would willingly and knowingly put thousands of people’s health and lives at risk seemingly for the sake of flattering his ego and feeding his lust for power? Surely if President Trump’s record was as sterling as he would have...

I can’t understand why we keep changing from one thing to another. The coronavirus has cost us many lives, and many more if we keep fooling ourselves that it is not serious or deadly. Everything was being dealt with until May 30; then our nation turned itself into a riot...

Our country and our culture are being undermined and destroyed by terrorists. What we are doing about it is not working. We treasure our federal system of government. If President Trump is forced to call in the Army, it sets a dangerous precedent for him and for the country and...

Some people are complaining about their civil rights and freedoms being taken away by Gov. Tom Wolf’s mask mandate. Some realize the danger we are facing from this killer virus and are happily following the advice of scientists and medical experts. Others are saying “No one is going to tell...

Once again, Joseph Sabino Mistick shows he is just another political hack (“Medicine and science, not politicians, will keep us safe,” July 11, TribLIVE). While his comments are true about the politicians cited, all Republican, he ignores the most egregious examples of failure, all Democrats. I believe the governors of...

Recently, the Hempfield Area School Board sent a letter discouraging families from choosing public cybercharter schools, which are often the best educational opportunities for their children. I have worked within a public cybercharter school for 15 years. As public school educators, it is our responsibility to both ensure all students...

In 1942 U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace gave a speech about the “Century of the Common Man.” He stated that the American Common Man (people) would be willing to die and go abroad to defend the “Four Freedoms” articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: freedom of speech, freedom of religion...

Although I have no case in point, I absolutely refuse to believe that no white person has ever been killed by a Black officer in the commission of a crime or as a suspect of a crime. Why is that? It’s not on the news, there are no protests or...

I am disappointed in Colin Powell, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Democrats for playing politics by calling the Confederate military “traitors.” They are playing insult politics with the dead who were faithfully defending their seceded independent country and its principles. I remember in the 1950s...