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Christine Toretti: Blue-collar workers stepped up for us; let’s step up for them
Pennsylvania manufacturers helped save countless American lives during the coronavirus pandemic — the least we can do in return is to help protect their jobs in the upcoming presidential election. As the coronavirus outbreak spread throughout the world, many health care experts and journalists speculated that the U.S. would not...
Ray Werner: The Depression shaped my generation. But what legacy will we leave?
Like many of us out there, I’m worried about a new Great Depression. And like fewer of us, I was born in the last one — in 1938. My parents, Chuck and Pauline, met and married in 1926. They started their family a year later in Freedom, Beaver County, in...
Letter to the editor: Time to get back to life
Churches, schools, many stores and restaurants, car dealers, liquor stores,barber and beauty shops, and casinos were all closed for two months; there were no weddings or funerals with more than 10 people allowed. As of May 15, some but not all places are allowed to reopen. But life as we...
Letter to the editor: God’s not just in our churches
I was raised to believe God is everywhere. My mother always told me to say my prayers before I went to bed. My father was on his knees before he went to bed. Our home was not a church. You can thank God for your healthy parents or children and...
Letter to the editor: Owning, confronting our racism
Before we offer up our “thoughts and prayers” for Ahmaud Arbery and his family (“Law enforcement ties, long delay complicate Ahmaud Arbery case”), perhaps we should think and pray about the fact that we live in a country where heavily armed white men storm state capitol buildings and are hailed...
Letter to the editor: Preparation key to success of online learning
The current school closures have created many challenges. Fortunately, with proper planning and a willingness to try new things, both students and teachers can succeed. I have been teaching online for almost 18 years. Teaching within the virtual environment has many benefits. Mostly, I enjoy teaching students from all across...
Letter to the editor: Questions about nursing homes
There are a number of extremely pertinent omissions in the article “Long-term care residents, employees to be tested weekly for covid-19, Gov. Wolf says” (May 12, TribLIVE). 1. Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine’s mother moved out of a personal care facility in January. This move should raise red...
Matthew Fleischer: Georgia’s coronavirus data made reopening look safe. The numbers were a lie
Nothing about the spread of the coronavirus or the nature of the disease suggests that it’s safe to get back to business as usual. And yet “reopen” is the word on almost every American’s lips, despite apocalyptic warnings from public heath experts suggesting that, without an aggressive national public health...
Tom Purcell: Drive-in theaters poised to profit from pandemic
Here’s one covid-19 silver lining: The drive-in theater, a uniquely American creation, is doing booming business again. I’ve long been nostalgic for this wonderful piece of Americana. When I was growing up in the ’70s, my mother and father often packed my five sisters and me into our massive station...
Editorial: Improving essential infrastructure boosts the economy
The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority has gotten the green light for its $2 billion Clean Water Plan — a series of moves including expanding wastewater treatment volume and disinfection capacity as well as repairing and replacing sewer lines, diverting streams and adding pipes, diversion structures and tunnels. The move comes...
Dennis Davin and Russell Redding: Staying in, carrying out in Pa.
Dennis Davin is the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Russell Redding is the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Since the beginning of time, food has been something that brings people together. Pennsylvania is home to more than 26,500 restaurants — from the classics...
Dr. Rachel Levine: Medical workers must care for themselves, too
Dr. Rachel Levine is Pennsylvania Secretary of Health. The 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic is taking an emotional toll on everyone. But one group of Pennsylvanians is facing unique challenges during this pandemic: our front-line workers in health care. As a physician, I understand how emotionally exhausting it is to care...
Letter to the editor: Trash China instead of Trump
China has a Great Wall but it is unfinished. The wall needs to continue until China is enclosed. Nothing in, nothing out. Let this communist country wither and die. Make no mistake: China is our No. 1 enemy, just as Germany and Japan were during World War II. If the...
Letter to the editor: Courageous leaders make hard decisions
The criticism of Gov. Tom Wolf by legislators, district attorneys and state representatives exposes the hypocrisy behind their “live free or die” recommendations that counties open businesses earlier than considered safe. We need to support leaders of courage who risk threats when they make unpopular, necessarily restrictive decisions. This virus...
Letter to the editor: Senior care facilities need emergency funding
Redstone Presbyterian SeniorCare has made great effort to prevent the coronavirus from entering our facility. We are fortunate. Other nursing homes have worked just as hard but do have positive cases. Nursing homes have become the epicenter of the pandemic. Now, more than ever, long-term care providers need Gov. Tom...
Letter to the editor: Virus is not political
Viruses are apolitical. They are only looking for a warm host. For those who insist on playing the red team/blue team card, claiming that Gov. Tom Wolf’s responses to the virus are part of a “vast left-wing conspiracy,” let’s look at how neighboring states led by Republican governors responded to...
Letter to the editor: Our radical ‘new normal’
Once this crazy time in our history stabilizes, the word “normal” will take on a radical, and sometimes alarming, new meaning. Consider this: The real estate industry will take a huge hit. Companies, realizing how efficient their operations run by everybody working from home, will reconsider why they lease so...
Editorial cartoons for the week of May 18
Editorial cartoons for the week of May 18....
S.E. Cupp: ‘Stephen Miller should die’ a gift to Trump
The so-called “newsy” bit read: “And while I am generally loathe (sic) to wish physical harm on those I disagree with, and while I do wish Katie a speedy recovery, I’m comfortable shedding whatever objectivity I have here to say I desperately hope Stephen Miller contracts covid-19.” It was a...
Editorial: Local leaders should be better than Congress
Vandergrift Council’s recent Zoom meeting might be the perfect example of the relationship between some government officials amid the coronavirus pandemic response. It had everything. Important things that needed to be done. Action to be taken to stay in compliance with a higher authority. A dictate that was really pointless...
Letter to the editor: How about a Pelosi-Cuomo ticket?
If the sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden has any truth to it, then maybe the right thing to do would be to nominate Nancy Pelosi for president and Andrew Cuomo for vice president. She is not at all intimidated by President Trump and would not let him get away...
Letter to the editor: Wasting money on the lottery
Gov. Wolf arbitrarily shut down businesses and hence cut income to many Pennsylvanians, but true to the complete and ridiculous hypocrisy of the management of the crisis, the state never stopped running Pennsylvania Lottery TV ads. The new tag could be, “We know you don’t have a job or much...
Letter to the editor: US has been unprepared for years
For years Congress has taken its responsibility of being prepared for a pandemic like a game of hot potato. They have been kicking the can down the road to the next administration without any second thought of the consequences. This president found himself in the unenviable position of having to...
Letter to the editor: Varying gas prices in Pa.
Regarding the editorial “Falling oil price shows high Pennsylvania gas tax” (April 21, TribLIVE): We all know gas tax and turnpike fees are outrageous in Pennsylvania. That’s not even in the equation. I filled up in Westmoreland County Easter Sunday for $1.59 on Interstate 70, then came back to Latrobe...
Letter to the editor: Wolf has overstepped role
It is time for we the people of Pennsylvania to speak up. Tom Wolf has overstepped his role as governor. Our legislators, who write the laws of this state, have not written any laws for the closing of “non-essential” businesses. Our governor seems to have decided that he is the...
