Opinion category, Page 585
Letter to the editor: Don’t minimize covid-19 deaths with creative math
In reference to Ralph Ignasky’s letter “Do the math and open up Pa.”: There is a difference between math and statistics. The Centers for Disease Control and health departments across the nation provide data that correlates with the morbidity rate and the mortality rates. Ignasky’s math was correct, but how...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 28
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 28....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Sept. 28
Editorial cartoons for the week of Sept. 28....
S.E. Cupp: Anti-Catholic attacks on Amy Coney Barrett will help get Trump re-elected
“Trump’s likely RBG replacement, Amy Coney Barrett, is a Catholic extremist with seven children who does not believe employers should be required to provide healthcare coverage for birth control. She wants the rest of American women to be stuck with her extreme lifestyle.” That’s a now-deleted tweet from a documentary...
Letter to the editor: Communist Party leader’s thoughts pertinent today
I saw Gus Hall hand out communist literature at West Virginia University in 1972. He was general secretary of the Communist Party USA for many years and ran for president four times. He died in 2000, but he made a statement that is pertinent to what is happening in America...
Letter to the editor: Traffic dangers in Oakland must be addressed
The news of Mary Jeanne Flaherty being struck and killed by a shuttle bus in Oakland Sept. 17 was sad but not entirely shocking. I recall grimly how a Pitt student was struck and killed by a Port Authority bus in January. After living in Oakland for four years, I...
Letter to the editor: Columbus statue should stay
As a retired history professor and Pittsburgh resident, I oppose the effort to remove the Columbus statue in Schenley Park. No statue that has had a prominent public place for more than 60 years should be removed without careful and lengthy consideration. Years of vandalism against the statue should certainly...
Letter to the editor: Demonizing others for different opinions
On Aug. 5, 6, 8 and 11 and Sept. 1 and 2, the Tribune-Review published letters to the editor that said or implied Democrats are all thieves, liars, heathens who want anarchy, hatred, Marxism, socialism and communism and want to destroy America and destroy freedom of speech. I cannot believe...
Letter to the editor: Nursing homes need state help
Nursing homes and other senior care providers remain at the epicenter of this pandemic and desperately need funding. For these facilities, covid-19 remains a 24-hour challenge, but they’re running out of resources and need help from Harrisburg. Pennsylvania’s state government must provide immediate financial support so nursing home facilities can...
Editorial: No naked ballots allowed
Nakedness is a problem. Not at home, of course. Just when out in public. So please, make sure your ballot is properly dressed when it leaves the house. There is a lot of concern with how this year’s general election will go, and much of it is valid. We are...
Making clean air a priority in Pittsburgh
Each Pennsylvanian has a constitutional right to breathe clean air, even if that right isn’t always protected by our local and state leaders. Locally, communities in the Mon Valley and across Allegheny County have suffered far too much, for far too long, from air pollution with little and inadequate response...
Norman Reimer: AG candidates must discuss fixing ‘trial penalty’
As Pennsylvanians contend with ongoing devastation wrought by coronavirus, and simultaneously reckon with systemic inequality as police violence toward Black people continues across the country, the failures of our criminal justice system have been laid bare. We imprison too many people for too long — a disproportionate number of whom...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Seeking serenity in hard times
You might think that Reinhold Niebuhr’s “Serenity Prayer” has no place in the crude arena that national politics has become, but Niebuhr would not have hesitated to invoke his prayer now. The public theologian believed that there is a core relationship between religion and politics. He immersed himself in all...
Sounding off: Steelers management should not allow political statements
The vast majority believe all lives matter. The vast majority believe in peaceful protests. The vast majority view a football game as a three- to four-hour escape from the harsh reality of dealing with life in these difficult time. By and large, they don’t see the game as a place...
Letter to the editor: Steelers management should not allow political statements
The vast majority believe all lives matter. The vast majority believe in peaceful protests. The vast majority view a football game as a three- to four-hour escape from the harsh reality of dealing with life in these difficult time. By and large, they don’t see the game as a place...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Wolf should let districts decide on fans at games
Gov. Tom Wolf’s comments about the state legislators Sept. 21 when he vetoed House Bill 2787 were some of the most pompous, arrogant and condescending I have heard in a long time (“Gov. Wolf vetoes House Bill 2787, leaving high school sports spectators in limbo,” Sept. 21, TribLIVE). His utter...
Letter to the editor: Republicans’ supreme hypocrisy
The editorial “Ruth Bader Ginsburg and necessary dissent” (Sept. 19, TribLIVE) was an appropriate response to the loss of one of the most revered Supreme Court justices in history. The nearly immediate statement by Sen. Mitch McConnell that her position should be filled quickly was not. It was highly disrespectful...
Letter to the editor: Why veterans support Trump
The question of why veterans would vote for President Trump is a no-brainer (“How can veterans support Trump?” Aug. 26, TribLIVE). I spent my service years to support things I learned in my adolescent years. 1. We must protect our Constitution written by our great founders. 2. We must protect...
Editorial: Stopping animal abuse could head off domestic violence
Abuse is abuse. Violence is violence. And it should be treated that way. It needs to be taken seriously when it is noticed in small ways because abuse escalates, and it often starts with the victims that can’t report it. Animal abuse is frequently seen to be a predictor of...
Walter Williams: Clean up our language, and we’ll challenge the nonsense
Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation.” Gore Vidal, his 20th-century intellectual successor, elaborated by saying: “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise,...
John Stossel: Bad policies, not climate change, fuel fires
“Mother Earth is angry!” says Nancy Pelosi. “The debate is over around climate change!” says California Gov. Gavin Newsom, smirking, strangely. They’re eager to blame climate change for the wildfires in their state. I’m surprised they didn’t say it causes covid-19, too. Newsom, ridiculously, says wildfires are a reason to...
Lorence Devon King: We’re fighting for justice in Pa.
No matter what we look like, where we live or how much we make, the public health and economic crisis we’re in reminds us that we’re all just human. For years, people like me — young people, people of color, working-class people of all races — have been left behind...
Letter to the editor: What has Biden done for us?
I have only one question for Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chair Nancy Patton Mills (“We need Joe Biden in the White House,” Sept. 21, TribLIVE): What did Vice President Joe Biden do for Monessen and Greensburg from 2009 to 2017? David Scandrol Lower Burrell...
Letter to the editor: Why don’t Republicans stand up to Trump?
To all the Republicans in Congress, especially Sen. Pat Toomey: Joseph Welch, as chief counsel for the U.S. Army, in 1954 famously stood up to Joe McCarthy during his Senate hearings, saying, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” This was a watershed moment in U.S. history and showed that...
Letter to the editor: Trump has done much good for U.S.
Regarding Timothy L. O’Brien’s screed “Of course Trump couldn’t resist Bob Woodward” (Sept. 10, TribLIVE): I suppose President Trump was “a con man and carny act” when he recognized and honored Americans killed by illegals, spoke to their families and welcomed them to the White House. These were people who...
