Letters to the Editor category, Page 69

State Sen. Gene Yaw’s recent commentary claiming the retirement of Homer City’s coal-fired power plant will be a “crippling blow” to the regional energy grid is misleading at best (“In Homer City, another step in killing the grid,” June 14, TribLIVE). PJM Interconnection — our grid operator — found no...

According to the article “Greensburg eyes expansion of business zoning to include self-storage units” (June 15, TribLIVE), the City of Greensburg and its mayor are considering allowing storage facilities in dilapidated buildings on Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. This challenge for the city is to change over the old, empty,...

It’s a shame when people visiting Pittsburgh for a reunion, wedding, graduation or some other event have to pay three times the cost of a hotel room because greedy owners are gouging patrons because of a concert at the stadium, which the visitors were not in town for to begin...

In response to the letter “Ramifications of DEP name change” (June 16, TribLIVE): This is a case of classic leftism. Accuse the other side of what you’re actually doing. In my opinion, Democrats have run the state Department of Environmental Protection and feel a name change is somehow a threat...

For years I thought that rich people ran our country. They would pick the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate, so they didn’t care which one won. They were all for the rich. The Clintons were no different than the Bushes and Mitt Romney no different than President Obama. Then...

It’s me again, old and “whys.” Why do the taxpayers have to provide more for prisoners than warm, dry and fed? Prison is supposed to be punishment, not vacation. Why do taxpayers have to support illegal immigrants who obviously are lawbreakers? That’s the illegal part, for those who can’t figure...

I recently visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History with a friend who was visiting from Michigan. She was fascinated with the extensive, preserved displays. However, when we reached the Egyptian area, we were confronted with a sign letting us know the bones, mummies and sarcophagus displays were going to...

I’m very disappointed to hear that the WPIAL has given high school streaming rights to the NFHS Network. I have tried to use this streaming service the past two years for my sister, so she could stream her grandson’s basketball games from Ohio. She was lucky if she got one...

It’s blasphemy to have a modern retelling of the Good Samaritan parable (Matthew 7:22-23) replacing the Samaritan with a transgender person (“Parable of the Good Samaritan for 2023,” June 11, TribLIVE). Jesus Christ taught us to love all people, even our enemies. So what are you really trying to say?...

According to the National Commission on Correctional Health Care’s Mortality Report regarding the many deaths at the Allegheny County Jail, “Allegheny County does not do mortality reviews,” which is a violation of National Commission on Correctional Health Care standard, “Procedure in the Event of an Inmate Death.” How is the...

If we were to believe the media, et al., we would think that inclusiveness is a fundamental moral imperative. On the contrary, every just society depends for its existence on the willingness of its members to judge and exclude those who seek to erode and destroy that society. This is...

Regarding the letter “John Kerry’s climate hypocrisy” (June 17, TribLIVE): I, too, want our leaders, such as Kerry, President Biden and Donald Trump, to be responsible and create a green economy; words are not enough. No one is above the law, even the laws of common sense. But, to be...

Thanks to the writer of the letter “Ramifications of DEP name change” (June 16, TribLIVE) for pointing out that, on June 10, the Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill changing the name of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to the Department of Environmental Services. One question: What sort of environmental...

Thank you for publishing the well-written letter “Ramifications of DEP name change” (June 12, TribLIVE) about the Pennsylvania Senate’s attempt to change the name (and role!) of the Department of Environmental Protection. Pennsylvanians do need protection from pollution produced by big industries. We have a right under the Pennsylvania Constitution...

Is Trump above the law? The responses of congressional Republicans to President Trump’s indictment, as described in the article, “Trump’s GOP defenders in Congress leap into action on charges after months of preparation” (June 10, TribLIVE) show, that these supporters are more concerned about Donald Trump than about the safety...

I am in utter disbelief that people not only continue to defend Donald Trump on this latest indictment but also try to draw comparisons to others who had classified documents. Mike Pence and President Biden immediately turned everything over and allowed full investigations to be conducted. Trump was given well...

Thank God for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He called his ouster “political theater” and not a “witch hunt.” Here’s an idea to end that saying for good: A political cartoon with Elmer Fudd in his hunting outfit telling readers to “be very, very quiet, I’m on the hunt,” and...

The Democratic Party in large cities and now state legislatures and the U.S. Congress continue to pander to Black Americans with false promises. Their latest and most troubling promise is that of large cash payments as reparations for slavery. This is dangerous because many Black citizens believe it will actually...

Dear Norwin School District, The Norwin School Board prefers to eliminate positions through attrition to maintain a “balanced budget.” Now we are praising them for being “good financial stewards” (“Good financial stewards in Norwin,” June 13, TribLIVE). The letter-writer focused on school board member Bob Wayman’s comment of the district...

In regards to the letter “Biden and Kennedy are the best Democrats have?” (June 7, TribLIVE): Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a rare condition called spasmodic dysphonia that affects his voice. Spasmodic dysphonia, also known as laryngeal dystonia, is a lifelong neurologic disorder that causes the muscles that generate a...

Democrats frequently whine that, “No one is above the law.” The Fourth Amendment of our Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,...

The article “Some Western Pennsylvania United Methodist churches make split official at conference” (June 15, TribLIVE) needs some context. Wesleyan theology would have that those who believe in a new life in Christ are first called to be holy in conduct. Traditionalists of the UMC are saying all people are...

Radical environmentalists and the Democratic Party are killing the planet, despite their claims to be saving it. They started about 50 years ago with their campaign to eliminate the use of heavy paper sacks for groceries. Greenpeace radicals resorted to violence like spiking trees to get their way. They got...

Animal rights activists pick and choose what they are outraged about. In 1975 they delayed by three years the building of a dam in Tennessee because of a 3-inch-long fish called the snail darter. Today windmills kill over 500,000 birds, including the American eagle, and solar panel farms fry over...

People today, particularly the younger generations, think it’s OK to bastardize and modernize the documents that created this great nation. They think a modern rendition of the homage to our flag or a modernized version of the national anthem is OK, cute, creative, whatever you want to call it. Taking...