Letters to the Editor category, Page 131
Letter to the editor: Garish billboards deface communities
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...
Letter to the editor: Thanks to Reschenthaler for commonsense vote
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....
Letter to the editor: Bowers’ sanity shouldn’t be issue
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....
Letter to the editor: U.S. not ready for electric vehicles
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...
Letter to the editor: Why do laws not apply to all equally?
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,...
Letter to the editor: Hydrogen hubs — leave gas in the ground
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...
Letter to the editor: Summer Lee letting Jewish community down
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....
Letter to the editor: Waiting for Ward’s action on budget
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,...
Letter to the editor: On marijuana, legalization works better than prohibition
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...
Letter to the editor: Cyber charter reform long overdue
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”...
Sounding off: Book bans, Trump, division, minimum wage among week’s topics
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...
Letter to the editor: US should invest more in foreign aid
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...
Letter to the editor: God is a problem, not an answer
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...
Letter to the editor: Greensburg’s McKenna Center should be relocated
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...
Letter to the editor: Goldie’s Act will protect dogs
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...
Letter to the editor: The Trump blind spot
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 —...
Letter to the editor: God, the Bible and governing
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...
Letter to the editor: RGGI good for Pa.
Pennsylvania recently joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multistate, bipartisan program to cut carbon pollution coming from power plants, which Pennsylvania produces more of than all but four other states. The RGGI is a big success in 11 other states. Statistics show RGGI will reduce Pennsylvania’s carbon pollution...
Letter to the editor: Division and corruption in America
Did you ever think you’d see America so divided and corrupted as it is today? Yes, I’m aware there are many great people doing great things all over the place, but sometimes it seems overshadowed by all the craziness, violence, deceit and moral decay. Mass shootings daily, cities imploding and...
Letter to the editor: Fight back against left-wing lunacy
The average American citizen is beginning to wake up and see the destruction being put upon our society by the radical left (the new Democratic Party). People are fighting back against the Democrats’ attempts to promote transgender activism, especially when aimed at our children, including radical life-changing sex reassignment surgeries,...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s treachery
I recently read an article by Thom Hartmann, “How Much Damage Has the Trump-Putin Collusion Inflicted on America?” that included the following: In 1977, Donald Trump married Ivana, who was raised as a good Czech communist, whose father was an informer for the spy outfit StB. For the Soviet Union,...
Letter to the editor: Trump should pay the price
Let me get this straight. Donald Trump is expecting to get indicted on charges resulting from Jan. 6. Well, shouldn’t he? I’m tired of all his witch hunt crap. He is an ex-president who did wrong. If it was you or I, we would have to pay the cost. We...
Letter to the editor: Conservatives call each other out
I believe the Pennsylvania GOP and the Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs have developed a strategy to stand against all MAGA candidates. Matthew Brouillette, founder and CEO of Commonwealth Partners, can hardly contain himself with his disdain for Donald Trump, Doug Mastriano, Joe Gale and any MAGA candidate (“Pa. primary...
Letter to the editor: Route 30 needs PennDOT’s attention
What is PennDOT planning to do with Route 30 from Ligonier to Greensburg? There are bumps big enough to ski down and potholes so deep they could open a wave pool. If they don’t do anything this year, they will be two-bedroom apartments by November. To be fair, they paved...
Letter to the editor: Climate change not causing more wildfires
The air is smoky again, and the media smoke is all about how climate change (warming) is causing more and more wildfires. As a retired U.S. Forest Service employee and one who has been recognized by federal courts as an expert in public lands policy and history, I can say...
