Opinion category, Page 627
Letter to the editor: Trump is best leader in time of crisis
I grew up in New York not too far from a guy named Donald J. Trump. New Yorkers are different; a little crude, overly aggressive and extremely hungry to get ahead. Maybe it’s the cost of living or heavy traffic that makes us impatient. Only a New Yorker will truly...
Editorial cartoons for the week of June 1
Editorial cartoons for the week of June 1....
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s indecent attacks on the dead
“Punch up, not down.” Whether in comedy or politics, the consensus precept has provided helpful parameters in which to acceptably swing at rivals or targets. The idea is, pick on someone your own size. I can think of no better — meaning worse — example of punching down than one...
Chris Woods & Matt Yarnell: Badge bill would help protect health care workers
One change could help to keep health care workers safe Every day they risk their lives so that you and I can be safe. But are we doing enough to ensure nurses and other caregivers are safe and protected? Our health care workers have been holding Pennsylvania together during covid-19....
Josh Gray: Opposing PIAA’s wrestling weight class plan
We’re parents, coaches, former wrestlers, trainers, doctors and fans who oppose the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association’s (PIAA) weight class reduction proposal. We’ve come together to protect Pennsylvania wrestling from reducing its participants and putting student athletes’ health at risk. Pennsylvania high school wrestling stands at a tipping point. The PIAA...
Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting problems
I am opposed to the mail-in vote movement. It fails the smell test. Follow the money to see who is paying for it. It does not provide a signed receipt. You know you sent the mail-in vote, but you do not know if it got to where it will be...
Letter to the editor: Politicians use crisis to push agendas
“Never let a crisis go to waste”: As we remain under Gov. Tom Wolf’s yellow restrictions with no defined path even under green to return Pennsylvania to pre-covid-19 conditions, Wolf seems to have adopted this mantra from Obama’s former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Before this pandemic, our country was...
Letter to the editor: On masks, noncompliance is selfish
Even during Pennsylvania’s red phase, what I witnessed in stores such as Walmart was incomprehensible. People would wear masks just to gain admittance, and then take them down to their necks. Only when ready to check out would many bother to put it back on. They were playing a dangerous...
Letter to the editor: No planes, blue skies
No child since us boomers has seen such azure skies as we currently have. Cut the wings off all the parked jetliners and use the cabins for homeless shelters! Don Miller Mt. Pleasant Township...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s covid-19 ‘accomplishments’
Recently I had the misfortune to witness a president bask in his own self-indulgent praise of his courageous response to our ongoing plague. Later I observed the following statistics: • The United States has 4.25% of the world’s population. • The U.S. has approximately 33% of the total worldwide coronavirus...
Letter to the editor: Another coronavirus scenario
Consider this scenario: The CDC approaches Madam President Hillary Clinton with projections of 2 million deaths and 50 million infected. Knowing the stock market will tumble from its record high 34,000, the president makes the grave decision to shut down the country and close all borders for the next 30...
Letter to the editor: Legislation would curb elder abuse
As executive director for the Alzheimer’s Association’s Greater Pennsylvania Chapter, I understand personally and professionally the impact this disease has on families across Pennsylvania and our country. Alzheimer’s and all dementia are often emotionally and financially devastating. As the number of people living with dementia rises, so, too, will their...
Letter to the editor: Coronavirus power grab
As we continue our way back from this event, let’s all put aside emotions and politics for a minute. There have been far worse outbreaks in history and there will be more. Life can’t just shut down or stop. The majority of deaths are the elderly and some with other...
Letter to the editor: Local governments need federal funding
I am a licensed practical nurse providing care to individuals with intellectual disabilities. I am on the front lines of this battle against covid-19. I have not been able to stay home and isolate myself. I need to go to work. My workplace is a state-funded entity, and I fear...
Letter to the editor: Global partnership needed on coronavirus
I’m so excited that my favorite bakeries are finally opening up again (“Let them eat Torte: Prantl’s Bakery reopens in Greensburg, Shadyside,” May 21, TribLIVE). Life feels like we’re going back to normal again. However, I’m concerned that this will happen again. With the phase 4 roll-out of the covid-19...
Letter to the editor: Listen to scientists on climate change
The covid-19 pandemic has led to enormous changes in both our daily and our civic lives, most of which are unwelcome. But I have noticed one change that bodes well for our future. Ask most Americans whom they trust the most for information about the disease and its spread, and...
Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting safeguards
I have a question on where letter-writer Daniel C. Mahon Sr. (“Mail-in voting would damage election process,” May 24, TribLIVE) got his information. You see, Mr. Mahon, if you did participate in the mail-in ballot process, you would have learned two things from the beginning to the complete process. First,...
Letter to the editor: Science has made our lives better
Science has given us so many things to make our lives better, such as microwave ovens, televisions and computers, and amazing technologies such as medical imaging and genetic engineering. We gladly accept these conveniences, but whenever they tell us something inconvenient, too many of us would rather believe a scientifically...
Letter to the editor: Nazi comparisons disrespectful
I cannot believe people are equating our current situation to the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. It is an insult and not respectful of the millions who died at the hands of the Nazis. It is an insult to the survivors. We are not being herded into cattle cars, we are...
Editorial: Violence is a different kind of virus
A virus is something that starts small and commonplace, unseen, but is picked up and takes root and can make you sick to your soul before spreading to the next person and the next and the next. We are fighting an epidemic now. We have been fighting it for a...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Trump walking the high wire on coronavirus
Lately, Donald Trump has been missing the mark, one that he usually hits without fail. As a brilliant counter-punching tactician, he could take down his opponents with a cutting nickname. He could enflame his supporters’ passions by finding just the right distortion of his opponents’ records and dominate news cycles,...
Editorial: Don’t be a fair-weather voter
Election turnout can be swayed by interest and sentiment. Care deeply about the position? More people show up. Not excited by the candidates? More people stay home. The ballots cast rise and fall with our rage or our apathy, our engagement and our disdain. A 2007 study by researchers including...
Sounding off: We need both faith, masks
In response to letter-writer Cindy Wallace (“We need faith, not masks”): There is an old Irish saying, “God is good, but never dance in a small boat,” meaning God takes care of us when we do our part to take care of ourselves. Jesus’ message is to love our neighbor...
Andrew Smolar, M.D.: Technology binds us, separates us
In 2016, I was president of our psychoanalytic organization, when progressive colleagues aimed to train new psychoanalysts in China — which would mean providing intensive telehealth psychotherapy for them. The faculty was divided about the idea, as some favored treating patients in-person only. I was torn. I am traditional, but...
Letter to the editor: Missing the smiles during covid-19
Dear Monica Bensko (“Thoughts from a front-line cashier,” May 21, TribLIVE): Bless your heart for your concern and your letter. I understand what you are going through — and many are going though the same. I, too, miss the smiles more than anything. Hannelore Miller Hempfield...
