Editorials category, Page 93

Editorial: Body cameras protect everyone

Let’s go to the video. We believe our eyes, but sometimes our eyes might stretch the truth. They might say what we want to hear. They might pick a side. And that is why body cameras on police are important. Today everybody has a television studio in their pocket. Every...
Editorial: Wideman pardon part of painful justice reform

Forty-four years would have seemed like a lifetime to a 24-year-old man in 1975. Robert Wideman, now 68, was just 24 when charged with second-degree murder. He was convicted the next year and sent to prison for life. Nicola Morena was 24 back in 1975, too. Morena was the man...
Laurels & lances: Russians, crime, radar and story time

Laurel: To colluding with Russians — musically. It was the sounds of Chicago. Except it wasn’t Chicago. It was cover band Leonid & Friends. And they aren’t even from Chicago. They’re from Moscow. Yes, Russia. The 11-member band was a big hit in Greensburg last week, packing St. Clair Park...
Editorial: Regional police show real small government

While other municipalities in Pennsylvania are trying to find ways to work together on a DUI task force, two municipalities are joining forces. That’s not a metaphor. Springdale Township and Cheswick created the Allegheny Valley Regional Police Department. The eight-member force started patrolling Monday. There is a lot about this...
Editorial: Penn Hills can’t depend on state money

Good for the taxpayers of Penn Hills. The highly troubled school district is getting a $3.3 million cash injection from the state on top of the regular annual contribution all districts receive. State Sen. Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, helped Penn Hills get the extra money from the Department of Education....
Editorial: Gerrymandering doesn’t represent us

Whether you are in a casino or a courtroom or state house, stacking the deck is wrong. You don’t get to load up your hand with aces. You don’t get to put your best friends on your jury. And you aren’t supposed to carefully, surgically carve out a constituency that...
Editorial: Budget behavior, childish tantrums

We don’t have time for leaders to act like children. The people we have elected are there to do a job. We might not like the job they do, but that’s why we get to shuffle the deck periodically. What we didn’t do was send grown men and women to...
Editorial: Buttigieg’s Pittsburgh summit is a good idea

Let’s get on this Pittsburgh summit. Not the top of Mt. Washington. The one tossed out by Pete Buttigieg at Thursday’s debate for Democratic presidential candidates. In a question about climate change, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., spoke as a leader of a not-coastal city that is still dealing...
Laurels & lances: Movies, memes, stealing and stress

Laurel: To summer fun with serious bite. As part of its new summer programming, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art hosted its first Summer Saturday on June 22. The Greensburg museum’s parking lot turned into a drive-in — or sit-in — of sorts, for an outdoor viewing of “Jaws,” marking...
Editorial: Is Sestak more primary background noise?

If there’s one thing the Democrats didn’t need going into the first presidential primary debates, it was one more candidate. Even one from Pennsylvania. Yes, the state’s got everything: rural, urban, left, right, industrial, agricultural, basic education, higher education, rich, poor. If you’re going to speak to any state, speak...
Editorial: Treat record-high drug addiction in jail

Addiction threatens our safety and our wallets. We know that people have drug problems. If it isn’t in your family, it’s an other-people problem. If you don’t take pills, or heroin, or cocaine, why is it something that you have to think about? It’s because more of the people around...
Editorial: UPMC, Highmark still need permanent solution

Break out the champagne. The crisis has been averted. No, not the tensions surrounding U.S. and Iranian relations. No, not North Korea. It’s not the war on drugs or the war on terror or even the war on Christmas. The peace treaty on the table is between Highmark and UPMC....
Editorial: Pennsylvania gave women voice with vote

Women get to have a say. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. It should seem obvious. Of course a woman gets a seat at the table, a voice in a discussion. Of course all women should have that opportunity. But it was just 100 years ago that Pennsylvania said that, yes, every...
Editorial: Another Clairton fire, another shutdown

We barely finished talking about Clairton. The Tribune-Review spent months visiting the city and talking to the people in the wake of the Christmas Eve fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works that shuttered pollution control systems for 2½ weeks. It came together in a Sunday feature with the stories...
Editorial: Don’t let fear slam door on refuge

Refuge. It is a place of solace and sanctuary. Shelter from the wind and weather. Protection from wolves and want. Refuge is safety. So what do we do when it becomes less safe? Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, a refugee from Syria who has been here for three years, was charged...
Lori Falce: We need real-life superheroes

My friends are evenly split on a critical topic of our times. It’s not Trump or Mueller. It’s not Bernie or Biden. It’s not paper or plastic. It’s superheroes. In short, why is so much of our entertainment today wrapped up in masks and capes and “up, up and away”...

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