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In the past month I have become a rebel and an outcast because I can’t obey the mandate to wear a mask in public. I feel this is a violation of my constitutional rights as a citizen of a free democracy, not a dictatorship. The government can give advice. Advice...

I just read the article “Religious freedom bill proposed in Pennsylvania as churches navigate reopening” (May 19, TribLIVE). Really? Don’t we already have a law covering that freedom? We do. It’s called the First Amendment to the Constitution. Wake up, people, and take our lives and country back, today! Al...

Common sense is now an uncommon virtue. In statistics it is important to understand that figures can lie and liars can figure. Statisticians can have a bias, and the numbers may be unreliable and not relevant. Political polls predicted Thomas Dewey would win the 1948 presidential election. Most polls were...

Recently, when opening the bag with my refilled prescription from The Medicine Shoppe in Latrobe, I was pleasantly surprised. Inside was a packet of honeybee-friendly wildflower seeds. Such a nice gesture. It’s the little things. Evelynne M. Majernik Latrobe...

On May 11, Reps. Valerie Gaydos, R-Allegheny, and Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, joined in signing a GOP letter calling for district attorneys across Pennsylvania to not enforce the governor’s covid-19 business closure orders. Since when did our politicians get so brazen to put their expertise in disease infections above health care...

Once again Donald Trump has tried to deflect responsibility for his slow response to the pandemic to someone else. In this case, China. Why would he praise President Xi for the good job he was doing and then try to blame him? Why would he believe a communist regime in...

In Patrick Varine’s article “Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald calls for primary election to be conducted by mail” (April 13, TribLIVE), Fitzgerald asserts “Holding an in-person election in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic would be, in and of itself, a disaster.” The real disaster would be holding any election...

I have been an early child care educator and advocate for 28 years. I have owned and operated Helping Hands Childcare & Learning Center in Imperial for 21 years. On March 16 my doors closed to the 65 families the center serves and the 14 educators I employ. The abrupt...

Tampa Bay Rays’ player Blake Snell reacted to a plan whereby Major League Baseball owners proposed a 50-50 split of revenues if only half of the games are played by announcing that he wasn’t about to give up anything in his five-year, $50-million contract. He flatly stated, “I’m not playing...

The editorial “Penguins miss shot with arena development project in Lower Hill District” (May 15, TribLIVE) missed the mark. This is not about the Penguins or Stanley Cups, rather a broken agreement. The saga began with owner Mario Lemieux’s threat to move the team to Kansas City if he didn’t...

The slugs, the nonconformist, wasted potheads of the ’60s, appear to have won. Now in 2020 thanks mostly to the liberal states, it is OK to smoke pot but against the law to get a haircut. Was this the objective all along? One has to wonder. Oh and by the...

As the late President Ronald Reagan might have said, “There you go again, Mr. Trump!” The president began touting the benefits he believes would ensue to fight the coronavirus from the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. We have since learned from doctors, including the esteemed...

Gov. Wolf: On March 16, you ordered us to close our businesses and schools and to stay at home. You told us that this was necessary to “flatten the curve” so our hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Not only have Pittsburgh’s covid-19 ICUs never been overwhelmed, they’ve never even been full....

The U.S. House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi passed a $3 trillion package to help save the economy during the covid-19 pandemic. It is titled the Heroes Act. Certainly there are many still suffering, and we can acknowledge there have been heroes all around us. But in a bill to help...

Allegheny County has announced that polling locations are being consolidated due to coronavirus (“Allegheny County votes to consolidate primary polling locations”). Monroeville’s one polling location will be at the Monroeville Convention Center. I believe the proposed consolidation plan is counterproductive from the perspective of both public health and voters’ rights....

Reunions The 1965 Hurst High School class reunion scheduled Aug. 8 in Mammoth Park in Mt. Pleasant Township has been canceled. Organizers of the 55th reunion said the event will be rescheduled sometime in 2021....

Read The Stroller daily for announcements of how everyone can ease the pressure and stress of others, even while maintaining social distancing. Information for The Stroller should be emailed to vndnews@tribweb.com. Donations welcome for the Friendship Garden Food Pantry Donations for the food pantry in the Tarentum Friendship Garden can...

Monroeville Estate of Laverne Stewart sold property at 3958 Rear Logans Ferry Road to Joseph Zinchini for $126,400. Christine Kuntz sold property at 115 Old Suffolk Drive to Gary Alan and Kimberly Rader for $263,000. Equity Trust Co. Cust FBO Z139646 IRA sold property at 212 Poplar St. to Cameron...

Bridgeville Kathleen Lento sold property at 237 Missouri Ave. to UCG Thirty Three LLC for $100,000. Carnegie Matthew Blair sold property at 102 Cathedral Ct to MS Blair Investments LLC for $145,487. Phillip Thornburg sold property at 418 Center Ave. to Jasmine Baldwin for $140,000. Karen Jancel sold property at...

Aspinwall Jeffrey Berman sold property at 328 Second St. to Eric and Francoise Lagasse for $210,000. Blawnox Michael Voit sold property at 128 Third St. to J & D Campbell Holdings LLC for $298,000. Harmar Robert White sold property at 608 Poplar Ct to Norbert Garbisch III and Sandra Garbisch...

Baldwin Borough Thomas Higgins III sold property at 715 Baldwin Drive to Blake Campbell for $155,000. Estate of Lois Karos sold property at 623 Blossom Drive to Rupindra Regmi for $210,100. Estate of Joanne Sujannsky sold property at 5035 Debra Drive to Bhola and Laxima Dhungana for $182,000. Danielle Brendel...

Penn Hills Daniel Babuscio sold property at 11412 Azalea Drive to UCG Forty LLC for $44,500. Robert Adams sold property at 2604 Blackridge Ave. to Sarah L Tafel for $103,000. Joy Bowser sold property at 243 Bramble St. to Bank New York Mellon trustee for $15,000. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency...

Bellevue Sarah Mendak sold property at 195 Dakota Ave. to Krypton LLC for $17,500. Jason Harrell sold property at 49 Kendall Ave. to Paul Jeffrey Hubert for $180,000. Franklin Park Paul Fleiner sold property at 2509 Adele Ct to Matthew Maloney for $475,000. Todd Harbaugh sold property at 2640 Big...

Oakmont Anthony Spinola sold property at 312 Second St. to Molly Culleiton for $199,000. Vincent Siciliano sold property at 97 Delaware Ave. to Terence Lee and Patricia Churilla for $535,000. Plum Christopher Terry sold property at 127 Beech Road to Phillip Barnett and Rachel Paiano for $198,000. Dana Cupples sold...

Bell Acres Alfredo Escudero Hernandez sold property at 216 Dilworth Road to Cartus Financial Corp. for $657,500. Maronda Homes LLC sold property at 193 Witherow Road Ext. to Jared and Alexa Bovalino for $720,000. Sewickley RLS Asset Holding LLC sold property at 321 Centennial Ave. to Jeffrey and Deborah King...