Letters to the Editor category, Page 118

Diversity? Just about every U.S. college and university now has a “dean of diversity” while our main global rival celebrates competence. Stick a fork in the good ol’ USA — we are cooked! Joe Marmo Cheswick...

The Presidential Records Act states that, the moment the president leaves office, the National Archives shall have custody and control of all presidential records. Nothing in the act states that there should be prolonged talks or a negotiated agreement between a former president and the National Archives over return of...

Another death occurred at the Allegheny County Jail last month, the 20th death since April 2020. The absence of health care staff is a major reason why the rate of death at our jail is so high. There are 94 vacancies for health care staff. Recently, a job satisfaction survey...

Regarding the letter “Book-banning futility” (July 23, TribLIVE): Assuming an honest opinion here, not just more leftist hysteria, the letter expressed a concern for sexual material being used in schools. How anyone can defend the sexualization of children in our schools is beyond me. Is this truly necessary? The diatribe...

Regarding the letter “Trump should pay the price” (July 25, TribLIVE), I ask the pertinent question: “It’s been almost three years since he’s been out of office; are people not seeing what President Biden and his sycophants have done?” Donald Trump, while crass and arrogant, showed the country just how...

Leave it to a man of compassion, empathy, tolerance and decency like Joe Biden to spearhead the establishment of memorial statues to commemorate the savage murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy whose “capital crime” was to have allegedly whistled at a white woman. Young Emmett was kidnapped from his...

It looks like the judge in Hunter Biden’s plea deal, Maryellen Noreika, was not paid off and did not rubber-stamp his plea deal, which would have made him immune to future indictments. I think that the Washington elites and the news media dropped Joe Biden like a hot potato and...

Recently, the majority of Democrats in Allegheny County voted for Mike Dugan as the Democratic candidate for district attorney in Allegheny County over Stephen Zappala, a tested Democrat. Do you who voted for Dugan know that he is a George Soros-backed candidate? Do you know what that means? Are you...

Crossing the bridge into Tarentum used to be one of life’s simple pleasures, enjoying the topography, gentle town, the steel mill where Dad worked, the majestic Grandview School I attended. But now, the crossing elicits sadness and anger at the garish electronic billboard supplanting the familiar loveliness. Tarentum officials made...

On June 14, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill that cuts federal spending while supporting critical agricultural research of national interest. As the plant manager for Flexsys’ manufacturing operation in Monongahela, I rarely, if ever, think about government-funded agricultural research. However, this year, I want to publicly praise Rep....

As the Robert Bowers trial seemed to be winding up, I kept ruing the fact that I hadn’t composed a letter because I feared it would no longer be topical. I am finally putting pen to paper realizing that, damn, it looks like it might be topical for a while....

It seems to me that, in this country in the last two years, we have had extreme changes, and not for our betterment. On electric cars, our government put the cart before the horse. The structure of power grids should have been in place before they started pushing for electric...

We have a system in which you fill out a form to get a gun, to see if you are permitted to have one. If you lie on a federal form in any way, it was my understanding you go to jail. Now we have the president’s son, Hunter Biden,...

Regarding the article “Pa. is competing for billions to build hydrogen hubs. Will they really be green?” (July 25, TribLIVE): Don’t be misled. It is impossible for hydrogen made from methane to be green. Hydrogen in Pennsylvania will be made from methane. The American Petrochemical Institute and the U.S. Department...

The past few weeks have been difficult for the Pittsburgh Jewish community. As parents and active members of the Jewish community, the third and final phase of the Tree of Life massacre trial has been very emotional for us. It is hard to explain to children the history of antisemitism....

Sen. Kim Ward, president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, has the power to resolve the “tempest in a teacup” that is nevertheless blocking passage of the state’s $45.5 billion budget. The battle’s about a $100 million school voucher bill (a mere 0.2% of the state budget). The bill’s late-night,...

Those who wish to perpetuate marijuana prohibition desperately try and mischaracterize state-level marijuana regulation as a policy failure (“Pa. politicians’ pot push won’t be the boon they claim,” July 24, TribLIVE). Reality does not support this claim. Public support for legalization has never been higher. Further, none of the 23...

Thank you for the editorial on cyber charter funding (“Cyber charter reform needs to be about education, not politics,” July 23, TribLIVE). That reform is long, long overdue. Few taxpayers understand that cybers aren’t “free,” as ads have claimed, but rather that their property taxes are paying for a “shadow”...

Book-banning futility The article “Hempfield book policies up for future vote with further revision” (July 10, TribLIVE), states that the school district is banning pictures of female breasts. How perverse. I believe this book banning thing has gone too far. Are we going back to the Spanish Inquisition with banning...

Around the world, 736 million people live in extreme poverty, making less than $1.90 per day. That is 736 million human beings without access to the necessities of life that are so often taken for granted. Foreign aid is the key to eradicating extreme poverty, and as one of the...

I must humbly disagree with the letter “Faith can change lives” (July 17, TribLIVE). God is not the answer, he is the problem. The God of the Bible is an angry being with a childlike mentality. He creates man and then floods them when they anger him beyond repair. The...

The recent feature story “ ‘Not your grandmother’s center’: Seniors centers evolve with Pilates, pickleball and pub burgers” (July 23, TribLIVE) and editorial “Senior centers could be model for providing human services” (July 25, TribLIVE) noted the value of senior centers. But it also brought to mind the dichotomy of...

Congress must pass Goldie’s Act to help protect dogs and puppies suffering in puppy mills. Goldie’s Act (HR 1788) is a federal bill named in honor of a golden retriever who suffered without adequate fresh food, water or veterinary care in a puppy mill that was licensed and overseen by...

When George Will analogizes the current state of the Republican race to the first inning, he is, to borrow his language, “harpooning himself” (“Neither Trump nor DeSantis will get GOP nod,” July 16). We are a year removed from midterms in which Donald Trump’s candidates lost in spectacular fashion —...

James Madison, the primary author of our Constitution, had it right when he stated: “We have staked the whole future of our new Nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political Constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves...