Letters to the Editor category, Page 190
Letter to the editor: Cracking open the door on gun control
After two recent tragic mass shootings, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It is common sense to keep lethal weapons away from criminals and those with mental illness, but this act did little but to open the door to future stricter gun controls. History tells us that once the...
Letter to the editor: GI Bill available for those who earn assistance
A recent edition of the Trib had a piece that said the president is considering some form of debt forgiveness. All this will do is add to inflation and increases in college tuition. The government already has a program that pays for college and trade school tuition. I and millions...
Letter to the editor: Vote out everyone
Do we Americans have any lawmaker who can come up with a law that will keep the gun out of the hands of the criminal? All lawmakers are trying to keep our minds on guns and anything else so that we the people don’t keep an eye on them. I...
Letter to the editor: Problems with FOP
Regarding the article “Panel says more accountability would make policing safer for communities, officers” (July 12, TribLIVE): It is easy to see the problem. The Fraternal Order of Police, although not mentioned in the article, is most likely responsible for the loopholes and hindering any effort of sincerely “good” police...
Letter to the editor: Where have all the flowers gone?
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” Reading that the late Pete Seeger, writer of that song, is being memorialized and honored with the issuance of a U.S. postage stamp was heartwarming to me. Having met Seeger and exchanged letters, one legendary songwriter (Pete) to an aspirant (me), the news made...
Letter to the editor: Ward’s ideas dangerous to our democracy
Sen. Kim Ward’s op-ed “A step toward election integrity in Pa.” (July 24, TribLIVE) was riddled with dangerous ideas that will restrict voting access, all seemingly based on the “voter fraud” lie propagated by Donald Trump. According to all 50 states’ secretaries of state, there was no widespread voter fraud...
Letter to the editor: Dems pleased that Trump wall stopped
President Biden’s hissy fit in stopping the completion of the Trump wall must be pleasing to the Democrats. So now we have an avalanche of illegal immigrants and drugs coming in from Mexican cartels. If one is complicit with evil, one may lose the ability to repent. R. Buck Gray...
Letter to the editor: Inflation, borders, gas prices, crime, drugs, not climate change, the emergency
President Biden recently made the statement, “Let me be clear: Climate change is an emergency.” Let me be clear: While climate change is important, it will take many years to fix. What is an emergency is inflation, control of our borders (200,000 undocumented people crossed our southern border in June),...
Letter to the editor: Taxpayers funding schools their children don’t attend
There is a lot of talk these days about tax dollars being used to fund private and/or parochial schools. This debate has gone on for decades. I have this to say on the subject: People who send their children to these schools are taxpayers! Yes, taxpayers would be funding these...
Letter to the editor: Both Jan. 6, and investigation, reprehensible
The events of Jan. 6, 2021, were reprehensible and troubling. So is the sham investigation (show) put on by the House of Representatives. An investigation starts with no predetermined conclusion, examines all the evidence and presents conclusions in a professional manner. The focus would be to prevent future occurrences. In...
Letter to the editor: Questions on North Huntingdon’s waiver procedure
I recently became aware of a practice by the North Huntingdon commissioners to entertain requests for waivers of building permit fees from nonprofit organizations (“North Huntingdon rejects Norwin request to waive permit fee,” June 13, TribLIVE). Intrigued by this practice, I submitted a Right-to-Know request for waivers requested since 2018....
Letter to the editor: Selective fighting for rights
In her letter “Protesters are protected” (July 18, TribLIVE), Mary Beth Walling defends protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices as a justifiable right under the First Amendment. Despite the fact that the examples she gives are of protests that occurred in public places, my supposition is that, by...
Letter to the editor: Stop blaming government for everything
I’m tired of people blaming the government for everything they see as wrong in the world. School prayer, for instance. If you’re a praying person, and you raise your kids to be praying persons, and your kid doesn’t pray in school, that’s your fault, not the government’s. Likewise, if you...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s deadly border mismanagement
“51 migrants die in trailer abandoned in Texas heat“ was a headline on page B4 of the Tribune-Review’s June 29 print edition. This horrific death scene is the worst incident of the Biden administration’s “pretend it does not exist” mismanagement of the border humanitarian crisis occurring daily in Texas, Arizona...
Letter to the editor: Jefferson may have OK’d Jan. 6 insurrection
If an insurrection of the Jan. 6 type had occurred back in colony times and enough citizens were sufficiently upset with their government to march on the Capitol as an armed mob, Thomas Jefferson might have been right in there cheering the mob on! Consider this: The Constitution was freshly...
Letter to the editor: Can we be better stewards of the Earth?
In July, I excitedly await the arrival of the monarch butterfly. From the forests of Mexico, the second or third generation of offspring are finding their way to Pennsylvania. Their flight is captivating, how they flit from flower to flower, intent on finding one thing: Milkweed. That’s it, the secret...
Letter to the editor: Wehner a great Pirates broadcaster
I’m a lifelong Pirates fan. Grew up with Bob Prince and Jim Woods doing the games. My father went to a game on rare occasions but listened to every game on the radio. Never could understand why when some of the games were televised. I’m older now and find myself...
Letter to the editor: Liz Cheney won’t get reelected
I sincerely hope Liz Cheney enjoys her future job as the third-shift fry cook at a busy truck stop on I-80, ’cause she ain’t getting reelected! Maria Maliszewski Brackenridge...
Sounding off: Gun safety, Roe v. Wade, Trump, Mastriano, gas prices
Gun safety shouldn’t be a partisan issue Many Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers seem to care more about appeasing a minority of their base than protecting their own constituents’ lives. Republicans have persistently blocked and obstructed any legislation or even debate on gun safety bills in Harrisburg. Afraid of a small but...
Letter to the editor: All kinds of energy allow us to live our lives
There are plenty of both facts and “fake facts” out there about our energy situation. Facts don’t seem to matter much to some people. Green energy is anything that Mother Nature makes available to us if we take the initiative to seek and use it. We have used oil and...
Letter to the editor: Women, welcome to your new job
Hello new hires! Welcome to your new job! Here, you’ll be able to enjoy all the freedom you can muster after working and commuting all day! Be sure to arrive by 8 a.m., even though your kids catch the bus at 8:30. You’ll figure it out! Lunch is unpaid, even...
Letter to the editor: How can our society support slaughter of abortion?
The article “‘Tidal wave’: Pittsburgh abortion clinics see influx of out-of-state patients” (July 8, TribLIVE) features an apparent abortionist at a “clinic” (a questionable use of the word, considering what they do) in East Liberty that has seen a threefold increase in demand for abortions. Another article describes how “impassioned”...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s actions on pipelines have no effect on gas prices
I wish more people would educate themselves before making false comments on subjects that they have obviously not researched. President Biden did not shut down any pipelines. What he did was stop the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was the Phase IV part of the current operational Keystone...
Letter to the editor: Stop legislators’ power grab
The Pennsylvania General Assembly is among the largest, most expensive legislative bodies in the country. At the same time, it is one of the least effective in passing bills favored by its citizens. Now it wants to bypass the democratic process altogether with amendments to the state Constitution. They submit...
Letter to the editor: Why gas prices are high
Why are gasoline prices high? There’s plenty of crude oil. The essential problem is that the world, and the United States in particular, lacks refining capacity for gasoline. There has not been a major refinery built in the United States since 1977, and there are no plans to build new...
