Letters to the Editor category, Page 103
Letter to the editor: Pharmacy closures a disgrace
The closure of pharmacies in Leechburg and Lower Burrell Jan. 31 was a gross travesty (“Pharmacies in Lower Burrell, Leechburg abruptly close,” Jan. 31, TribLive). Decades of loyal customers and employees only found out that day. No notice of any kind was given. One co-owner blamed Giant Eagle for wanting...
Letter to the editor: Who is destroying our country?
I wonder if the writer of the letter “Trump only cares about himself” (Feb. 8, TribLive) has jumped the gun on Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposed legalization of marijuana. Maybe he could coin the phrase “Get woke, just toke!” You know, cannabis-addled brains distort perception. How else to explain the author’s...
Letter to the editor: Think about tax policy when voting
It appears that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a massive con game. Eighty percent of the gain from tax cuts flow to the top 10% of wage earners and only 20% flow to the bottom 90%. Because of tax cuts, 34% of large profitable corporations like Amazon,...
Letter to the editor: Industrial safety born in Western Pa.
The field of industrial safety is rooted in Western Pennsylvania, starting with Crystal Eastman, a member and secretary of the New York State Employer’s Liability Commission. She reviewed injuries and fatalities in Allegheny County occurring from July 1906 through June 1907. The county was essentially the Steel District, with 70,000...
Letter to the editor: Sweep them out with your vote
Old military quip: New broom sweeps clean. When an organization turns inept and dangerous, it’s time to sweep it out. This November, get hold of the broom handle and start sweeping with your vote. Regis Farrell Greensburg...
Letter to the editor: Rightful owners of Gaza
It is time that our government takes a very close look into the true rightful landowners of Gaza. The answer is in the Bible and has been there for thousands of years. Abraham was given all this land by God for the people of Israel. The Jew was placed all...
Letter to the editor: Quit drinking the Trump Kool-Aid
What a pathetic state this country is in! The Republicans got what they wanted in the bipartisan border deal, and then they shut it down because Donald Trump told them to? From what I read, the Democrats gave in on multiple fronts to get this passed so we could give...
Letter to the editor: Not your parents’ pot
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s eyes were beaming at the thought of additional tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales to prop up our overpriced education system (we rank No. 8 in education spending). These facts come from Smart Approach to Marijuana: • Marijuana has psychological effects. • Marijuana is addictive. • Marijuana...
Letter to the editor: We should help our country first
There are 446 million people living in the European Union. Almost 24 million are non-citizens. Many of these non-citizens arrived in waves coming from the EU’s south. The countries of the EU, in general, were highly in debt when the massive influx of immigrants flooded the border. It was well...
Letter to the editor: Backward steps on abortion
In her letter “No time to go backward on abortion safety” (Jan. 29, TribLive), Maria Gallagher, legislative director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, complains that a law supposedly ensuring the safety of women is being considered for repeal. This law had nothing to do with abortion safety but was intended...
Letter to the editor: Monroeville Convention Center woes
While I sympathize with the municipality of Monroeville, I don’t believe that the mayor or anyone else involved in local government should be sending letters and “expressing extreme concern” regarding the closure of the convention center (“Monroeville officials: Hobby Lobby welcome, just not at convention center,” Feb. 15, TribLive). If...
Letter to the editor: No way to conduct a humanitarian war
All that seems to be published today about the Israeli/Hamas war is that there should be a more humane method of carrying on war. What? The true leaders of post-World War II knew it was hell. They knew that the goal was to avoid war at any cost (Henry Kissinger,...
Letter to the editor: Stutterers have a hero in Bryan Rust
How uplifting it was to read the article “Penguins forward Bryan Rust stands up for those who stutter” (Feb. 3, TribLive). I agree with speech-language pathologist Allison Ladavat of the speech clinic at Duquesne University in that I never had any heroes to look up to in my stuttering youth....
Letter to the editor: Lincoln has final word on cause of Civil War
Let’s finally kill that myth that several letter-writers are attempting to perpetuate regarding the cause of the Civil War. And we can let Abraham Lincoln settle it with his own words from his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 (emphasis mine): ”One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not...
Letter to the editor: Support Pa. gun violence prevention
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has proposed investing $100 million in statewide gun violence prevention programing and education. For over 20 years the Foundation of HOPE has been serving the Greater Pittsburgh region by empowering people impacted by the criminal justice system to renew their faith, rebuild their lives and restore...
Letter to the editor: Who wants to be a police officer today?
I read with dismay the article lamenting the decline in municipal police officers and the lack of new recruits (“Interest in local police work drops in Western Pa. despite jump in state police academy applicants,” Feb. 7, TribLive). Gee, I wonder why that is. It couldn’t be the result of...
Sounding off: Congress is failing us, Taylor’s election influence, straight talk about MAGA, fix immigration
Congress is failing us An open letter to the United States Congress: To the radicals on the right: You are not conservatives, you are obstructionists. To the radicals on the left: You may be “woke,” but you are not awake. Stop acting like a bunch of amateur circus clowns and...
Letter to the editor: Our National Guard should be protecting us at home
One detail was probably missed by most people when they heard about the Jan. 28 attack on U.S. forces in Jordan. This was that most of the soldiers injured were members of National Guard units. Over the past 20 years of endless military operations in the Middle East, National Guardsmen...
Letter to the editor: Taylor’s election influence
As I try to recover from the trauma of the Punxsutawney Phil debacle, now the holy war is all about Taylor Swift and her possible election endorsement. I have heard ludicrous propaganda schemes before, but this one ranks No. 1 and is infuriating. Whether you’re a Swiftie, MAGA or Biden...
Letter to the editor: Mayorkas, is border secure or not?
For the past several years, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly has said the border is secure. Now he says it is not, yoy! It only took him several years to finally make up his mind. Lou Gregovits North Huntingdon...
Letter to the editor: Questions for liberals
After a three-year absence, I have three questions libs have a problem answering, so I will answer for them. 1) How do you make electricity? Answer: gas, oil and coal. Oh, those are fossil fuels! No problem, wind and solar will charge those 300 million cars, trucks, buses and machines....
Letter to the editor: MAGA cult proud of their bullying
Please quit saying the Republican Party when you mean the Republican MAGA cult. They are different. If you are not a MAGA extremist, the cult has no use for you. They are bullies and proud of it. This was so evident when the former president said, if you contribute to...
Letter to the editor: The despicable Joseph R. Biden
We are living inside the Theater of the Absurd. This is not an overstatement. If anything, it fails to fully convey the impossibly dishonest, diabolical, disastrous administration of Joseph R. Biden. No dystopian novel ever written could have portrayed a more terrifying vision of a world and nation gone mad...
Letter to the editor: Vote out the politicians who don’t do their jobs
The letter “Congress is failing us” (Feb. 11, TribLive) is spot on. The only thing I can add is vote them out. For some strange reason, voters are content to put up with this nonsense. Use your vote to put people in office who do their job, and, if after...
Letter to the editor: Common sense exists in both parties
It is refreshing to see that federal jurists, regardless of party affiliation and showing no loyalty to the appointer, rule as they do. I don’t recall any significant appeal going Donald Trump’s way, regarding election fraud, criminal indictment or civil action. People with common sense remain in both parties. Thank...
