Opinion category, Page 703
Letter to the editor: More gun laws won’t stop killings
I don’t know if Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto has been reading the news lately about the shootings in other countries or not. Yes, we Americans can carry weapons such as handguns. We do have the right to buy military-style rifles. This is our right. I agree that any weapon in...
Letter to the editor: Democrat votes for family values
The Democratic/socialist debates were the same old soup just warmed over. All basically promise the same thing: give-aways, higher taxes and gun confiscation. I don’t need free college, loan forgiveness, Medicare for all or a $15 minimum wage. I was born in a Democrat family and grew up in a...
Tom Purcell: Make this a beautiful day in your neighborhood
Tom Hanks is right: We should be allowed to start off our days feeling good. Hanks stars as Fred “Mister” Rogers in the movie “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” opening Nov. 22. At a press conference after its world premiere at a film festival in Toronto, reports Deadline, Hanks...
Jonah Goldberg: Candidates & constitutional boundaries
It’s exhausting being both a conservative and a critic of President Trump. When I aim my pen at the White House, many of my comrades on the right go nuts. And readers who love it when I go after Trump turn into a cage full of poo- flinging monkeys when I...
Editorial: Where have all the birds gone?
Pennsylvania may be dotted by cities and towns, but at its heart, the state is a forest. It’s right there in the name. Pennsylvania. Penn’s Woods. The state has always embraced that nature. The Department of Environmental Protection was established in 1995 but traces its roots all the way back...
Letter to the editor: Bernie Sanders’ communist policies
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama recently made an offer on a nearly $15 million house and property in Martha’s Vineyard. Since Bernie Sanders is such a good communist, he can seize through taxation Obama’s property to help the downtrodden in America. Obama would no doubt protest Sanders’ communist policy....
Letter to the editor: Further grouping the deplorables
Hillary Clinton was wrong to call then-candidate Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables.” Had she sub-grouped the Trumpites, as follows below, voters might have understood her point. The enablers comprise one segment of Trump’s followers. They cringe at his lies and behavior and hate his tweets, but their GOP roots keep them...
Letter to the editor: Radicals then & now
The shouting down of anyone who doesn’t agree with the left wing’s liberal agenda is nothing new. The radicals have always tried to drown out any reasonable discourse over the decades. In the midst of the sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, people who tried to warn the public...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 23
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Sept. 23....
Editorial cartoons for the week Sept. 23
Editorial cartoons for the week of Sept. 23....
S.E. Cupp: Andrew Yang isn’t angry, & that’s great
Two upstarts in the 2020 presidential election — Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson — are both polling well below the front of the pack. The three front-runners — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — currently enjoy a full 60% of Democratic support nationwide. But despite their lack of...
Dr. Rachel Levine: Naloxone key to saving lives
We know there isn’t a city, town or borough in the commonwealth, or in the nation, left untouched by the opioid epidemic. We know that this epidemic is an equal opportunity disease — there is no gender, race, ethnicity, income bracket or education level that has not felt the effects....
Editorial: Keep politicians off pedestals
It is hard to believe that someone who makes the laws could break them flagrantly. But it happens. It happens more than we would like to admit. Elected officials are arrested. They plead guilty. They are convicted. They can serve prison sentences and sometimes they come back from political death...
Letter to the editor: Wolf’s charter fee-for-service model robs students
Imagine your house was robbed, and you called the police to report the incident. Yet, before the police step in to solve the case, you must pay a substantial fee for their help in recovering your stolen property. Sounds backwards, right? Well, that’s the same logic at play in Gov....
Letter to the editor: Crawford Run Road
Well, taxpayers of Frazer, East Deer and Indiana, here we go again. Thanks to the Allegheny County executive’s infinite wisdom, the county is half-patching Crawford Run Road again. The saying goes, why is there always time to do it over but never time to do it right the first time?...
Letter to the editor: Fix bricks on Elm Street instead of paving
Regarding the article “Plan to pave brick street in South Greensburg sparks debate” (Sept. 3, TribLIVE): Old-timers who knew how to work to keep our community in good shape are gone. There are people out there who can fix bricks, no doubt at a lower price than the cost of...
Letter to the editor: NYT failures proof media out of control
The New York Times has admitted that it failed to include certain facts in its Sept. 15 article claiming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh committed sexual misconduct during his college years at Yale 30 years ago. The article said a classmate, Max Stier, claimed Kavanaugh exposed himself to a female...
Editorial: Narcan isn’t addiction antidote
People are alive today because of Narcan. That is absolutely indisputable. Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, is like a pharmacological blindfold. If someone has overdosed on a narcotic, a dose of Narcan can make the body and brain ignore the drugs. Pay no attention to that heroin. What heroin?...
George Will: Hong Kong’s resistance offers lessons for Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan What happens on Hong Kong does not stay there. The ongoing tsunami of discontent washes over this island, which, like Hong Kong, is navigating the choppy waters of relations with the same large and menacing mainland neighbor. This nation — which is such psychologically, if not in diplomatic...
Robert Daley: Sam Davis’ death shows reform needed in long-term care
Steelers Nation has been rattled by the death of Sam Davis, a former offensive lineman for the team and four-time Super Bowl champion. After a 13-season career in the National Football League, Davis, who had been suffering from dementia and was legally blind, was recently in the care of a...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Judge candidates by what’s in their hearts
When Ronald Reagan was nearing the end of his second term in the White House, he wandered into the medical office one day, approached his physician and said, ”I have three things that I want to tell you today. The first is that I seem to be having a little...
Antony Davies & James Harrigan: Wolf should reform schools parents don’t choose
Last month, Gov. Tom Wolf announced that he would be undertaking “comprehensive charter school reform … (to) level the playing field for all taxpayer-funded public schools, (and) strengthen the accountability and transparency of charter and cybercharter schools.” At the heart of his announcement lie two assertions: first, that charter schools...
Colin McNickle: Pittsburgh’s anemic labor market
Job growth has slowed significantly in Greater Pittsburgh over the last few months. And while there typically are myriad factors in the job-creation equation, the proverbial “usual suspects” can continue to be tagged for the region’s anemic employment performance, an analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy finds. “(T)he...
Letter to the editor: Independent won’t vote Democrat
As a registered independent, I am often asked with which party do I most associate. This is a very simple answer. I may vote for some Republicans. But because I describe myself as a “pro-American conservative,” I can never vote for a Democrat at any level. Also as a registered...
Letter to the editor: Property tax thwarts homeowners’ plans
My wife and I have reached the point in our lives where the kids are gone and our older home and land require more work than we’re able/willing to do, so we are attempting to downsize to a smaller property. Unfortunately, a prohibiting factor is the high property tax on...
