Letters to the Editor category, Page 203
Letter to the editor: A forgotten parking law that should be enforced
Thought you know everything about driving? How long has it been since you’ve looked at that old Pennsylvania Driver’s Manual? There is one parking law not a lot of people know, but you should know it, or you’re liable to get a ticket. Page 52, Chapter 3, “Learning to Drive,”...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s year of bad decisions
President Biden stopped construction on the Mexico border wall the day after he became president. Fentanyl deaths have increased, and nearly doubled in the past two years for people ages 18-45. Drugs, covid, criminals — everything is coming over our borders now. In the spring of 2021, Biden passed the...
Letter to the editor: Fossil fuels vs. health of our children
Op-ed writer Anais Peterson is right to raise the alarm on oil and gas companies looking to use the Ukraine-Russia war as a pretext to further tether us to the fossil fuels whose emissions are polluting our air as they harm the health of our children (“Fracked gas in Appalachia...
Letter to the editor: Aiding Putin’s propaganda
The op-ed “Fracked gas in Appalachia won’t help Ukraine, but will hurt our communities” (March 8, TribLIVE) by Anaïs Peterson of Earthworks, attacking Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and their employees — our neighbors and community members — should come as no surprise. A bit about Earthworks: This extreme anti-energy organization...
Letter to the editor: Traditional holiday names are not offensive
Thank you, Greensburg Salem School Board member for speaking the truth regarding traditional holiday names on school calendars (“Greensburg Salem’s use of traditional school holiday names draws dissent”): “Our society is turning everything into a gray area.” And just to correct former school board member Lynna Thomas, traditional names such...
Letter to the editor: Our energy dependence is a national emergency
Buying oil from our enemies has got to be the most insane idea ever. The United States produces the cheapest, cleanest oil and gas with the lowest amount of CO2 emissions in the entire world. Energy dependence has become a national security emergency. The craziness of the far left’s false...
Letter to the editor: New Kensington teachers should be rewarded
It is both disheartening and infuriating to read about another administrator receiving a generous severance package (“Dave Heavner returns to alma mater as Valley’s new football coach,” March 2, TribLIVE) but the New Kensington-Arnold school board can’t seem to resolve a contract for their most important resource, their teachers. Board...
Letter to the editor: Nice pandemic plan, Biden
President Biden ran for office with the repeated promise that he had a plan to end the covid pandemic. Before the election, Biden 1) criticized President Trump’s January 2020 action restricting travel from China as “xenophobic,” 2) promised to shut down the virus but not the country, 3) promised not...
Letter to the editor: Media to blame for racial divide
I believe the media is to blame for a lot of the racial divide due to the way news is reported. Many times, they include skin color in their news when reporting people being elected or selected to positions, or just reporting information. We see pictures of people in the...
Letter to the editor: Don’t punish kids when adults act like morons
Regarding the melee at Zone 28 (“Pittsburgh man charged with starting brawl at Zone 28 in Harmar,” March 8, TribLIVE): Instead of minors having to be accompanied by an adult after 8 p.m., it should be the other way around. Why should the kids be penalized when it’s the “adults”...
Letter to the editor: Don’t make Biden look like a savior
Whoever wrote the editorial praising President Biden for his “focus” on reviving the Pittsburgh region’s steel industry only got it half right (“Keep focus on steel promise from State of the Union,” March 2, TribLIVE). You must also realize Biden is the jerk who shut off the region’s natural gas...
Letter to the editor: Parroting propaganda
To quote Popeye, that’s all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more. Pass the spinach! I’d like to present a nice, big, crispy cracker to all the hate-filled Democratic letter-writers, in recognition of their amazing impersonations of a parrot, repeating the propaganda they are constantly fed. It seems...
Letter to the editor: Jail board nomination undermines citizen representation
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald hopes to replace Jail Oversight Board member Terri Klein with a former warden of the Allegheny County Jail (“Fitzgerald seeks to appoint former warden to Allegheny County Jail board,” March 4, TribLIVE). This violates the intention of the state statute governing the authority of the...
Letter to the editor: Peacemakers will restore order
Donald Trump is running for president in 2024. He kicked off his campaign in Russia seeking support from Putin such as he received in 2016 and 2020. When Putin attacked Ukraine, Trump called Putin a “genius” and said he made a great “savvy” decision. Putin, like Trump, loves to hear...
Letter to the editor: Working from home would help energy crisis
During the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, many businesses shut down. Then, as they started reopening, many of them set up ways for employees to work from home. Great idea! Business back in action, people working, things being accomplished. The country functioning again. Now, with the war waged in Ukraine...
Letter to the editor: Paying for water clean-up, oil
Two important points regarding recent topics in today’s news: First, I support Maury Fey’s comments in his letter “Another Biden failure on energy” (March 7, TribLIVE). But since our president is not willing to open our pipelines, why not use the confiscated funds of the Russian oligarchs to pay for...
Letter to the editor: Not everyone wants to do everything online
Online communications are driving me crazy. Two examples. I went to Giant Eagle and told the pharmacist I wanted to schedule a booster shot. He said I had to go online. I went home and called Walmart and went in the next day and got my shot. I wanted to...
Letter to the editor: Banning books not best for children
Parents should not be trying to have books banned. They should want their children to know more, achieve more and experience more than they did. How do we reach those goals by isolating our children from life? To make good decisions, young people should be armed with all the facts,...
Letter to the editor: Biden must open access to American energy
In his State of the Union speech, President Biden promised to fight inflation. One of the biggest contributors to inflation is rising energy costs. The cost of gas, heating oil, electricity, etc., affects every aspect of our society. The price of food, consumer goods, transporting products and just about everything...
Letter to the editor: Casey, Toomey should support Jackson as justice
The selection of a Supreme Court justice has a profound effect on the well-being of our democracy. The decisions made by a justice over decades of his or her lifetime affect each and every one of us on issues of health care, a thriving environment, jobs and civil rights and...
Sounding off: Why fear critical race theory?
Having read the article “Norwin director claims assignment on racism was critical race theory teaching,” I can’t help wondering what Shawna Ilagan is fearing. I am not an expert on critical race theory, but I know it is another way of looking at race and systemic racism in our country....
Letter to the editor: Good time to get back to work
The unemployment rate is low and wages are rising, but so are inflation, interest rates and energy prices. History has taught us that when things get bad enough, we end up in a recession and real estate prices and the stock market drop. My advice to people sitting on the...
Letter to the editor: The person, not the product, is the problem
Families and survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting recently settled their lawsuit with Remington Arms. They said the company should never have sold such a dangerous weapon to the public. Doesn’t this open up a can of worms for other companies? What about cars that end up killing people? What...
Letter to the editor: A chronicle of Biden’s failures
President Biden’s disasters are accumulating at an alarming pace. The Biden team has bungled the covid response with financial waste, crushing mandates and misinformation. Biden assured Americans that inflation is only temporary, but it’s now approaching 8%, the highest in 40 years, and shows no sign of abating. The next...
Letter to the editor: Past time for a carbon price
The need to put a price on carbon is the main theme of Matthew Brown’s Feb. 23 Associated Press article “As climate change costs mount, Biden seeks to price damages.” Citizens’ Climate Lobby has been pushing for a carbon price for over 10 years. The legislation we like, the Energy...
