Letters to the Editor category, Page 260
Letter to the editor: Solution for mail-in voting issues
Homebound, nursing home or military should be the only reason to vote by mail. If voting absentee, a request and reason should be necessary. If you can go to Walmart, Home Depot or the grocery store, or play the lottery, then you can vote in person. All absentee ballots are...
Letter to the editor: End of the virus or end of Trump letters?
Which happens first? The covid-19 pandemic ends and life returns to “normal,” or tear-stained letters from pouty President Trump fans disappear from the pages of this newspaper. My money is on the virus. Dan Skantar North Fayette...
Letter to the editor: Giving stimulus check back to government
In response to Cheryl Rossetti’s letter “Disagree with election results? Return stimulus checks”): This is a great idea to try to “pour money back into the Treasury.” I’m ready to lick the stamp to send it back. Before doing that, however, I propose the following caveats: In return for my...
Letter to the editor: Learn, take action on anti-Asian racism
Given the rise over the past year in anti-Asian racism and racial incidents, here are just a few resources for learning and action. If you experience bullying, intimidation or violence related to being Asian and/or Pacific Islander (API), go to stopaapihate.org and standagainsthatred.org/ report to report the incident so that there...
Letter to the editor: More guns means more shootings
As people are tiring of covid, the mass gatherings are resuming, and so are the mass shootings. No other country has this problem, and no other country is so saturated with guns. Coincidence? I hear all the gun advocates’ arguments and scoff, like guns don’t kill, people do. It’s as...
Letter to the editor: Democracy for all people, not just the powerful
In the 1800s the Republican Party championed the democratic principles of freedom, liberty, justice and equality for all. The Democratic Party stood for the wealthy and powerful, the plantation owners, the captains of industry. It was a tug of war between democracy and oligarchy. Today we are in that same...
Sounding off: George Orwell, Ray Bradbury warned us; thanking Trump; stimulus checks and election results
Have you seen and heard enough yet? I certainly have. I never thought that we would witness big tech silencing free speech or de-listing books whose subject they disagree with. A “woke” administration and Congress that appear more intent on advancing socialism and rewarding their friends than helping to make...
Letter to the editor: Did non-supporters return Trump’s stimulus checks?
From the tone of Cheryl Rossetti’s letter “Disagree with election results? Return stimulus checks.” (March 24, TribLIVE), I’m guessing she did not support President Trump. When she received the first two stimulus checks while Trump was president, did she follow her own advice and return those checks? To paraphrase her,...
Letter to the editor: Republican votes reason for vaccine shortage?
Regarding the article “Westmoreland receives fewer covid-19 vaccine doses than smaller counties; talks begin about regional health department” (Feb. 26, TribLIVE): It seems rather odd that since most voters in Southwest Pennsylvania voted Republican, except for Allegheny County (Little Philly), we are being left short on our allocations of vaccine....
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland needs a health department
I ask myself, “Why are the residents of Westmoreland County less worthy than the residents of Allegheny, Erie, Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties?” Why do Westmoreland County residents not have the benefit of a critically needed public health department? Allegheny County and Erie County both have had health departments...
Letter to the editor: There are good and bad people in journalism, politics
To John Newhouse, who wrote the letter “Politicians, media teaching how to hate” (March 17, TribLIVE): I honestly sympathize with your fate. I’m an 80-year-old mother and grandmother, and have been in your predicament at times myself. The only way, and the best way, to get out of your dilemma...
Letter to the editor: Second doses for seniors should come first
Teachers should not be vaccinated until all of the elderly are. The virus can be fatal to the elderly. Most teachers are young. Although they are exposed more than most people, since they are younger they are most likely to survive. The elderly are most likely to die. Donald G....
Letter to the editor: Wolf, Cuomo and nursing home deaths
Looks like Gov. Tom Wolf may be in the same trouble as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with the covid deaths in old folks’ homes. More than 50% of the covid deaths in Pennsylvania were in those homes, with Pennsylvania among the states with the highest percentage of deaths in...
Letter to the editor: Did Biden’s parents raise a fool?
My parents didn’t raise a total fool, but it looks as if President Biden’s parents may have created one. I was taught that when I had a job and wanted to better myself, I didn’t quit the job I was working before getting a better job. Biden promises better jobs,...
Letter to the editor: Good men must come to aid of our country
Fellow Americans: While this corrupt and tyrannical government is being protected by razor-wire fences, concrete barriers and the National Guard, the Congress, Senate and White House administration are passing unconstitutional and tyrannical laws and using our tax dollars to do it. We are paying for our own demise and descent...
Letter to the editor: Vote for candidate who will better our community
With a special election in House District 59 approaching, voters should examine the purpose of politics when making their choice this spring (”Trump House creator Leslie Baum Rossi wins Republican nod as party’s candidate for open state House seat,” Feb. 20, TribLIVE). Politics should not be a game where fans...
Letter to the editor: Immigration reform will rebuild our economy
Immigrants are substantial contributors to Southwestern Pennsylvania’s success and are crucial to our ability to respond and rebuild from the pandemic. Today, over 70,000 undocumented immigrants, including 1,700 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, work in essential roles across the state. Even as undocumented immigrants contribute heavily to our...
Letter to the editor: Media’s treatment of Biden vs. Trump
In a press conference Jan. 25, “reporter Jeff from NBC” asked Joe Biden a “question.” Biden answered, “… And I know you ask a lot of these questions, you know the answers, but you have to help educate the public as well. I’m not suggesting you don’t know what I’m...
Letter to the editor: How does BLM spend its millions?
It was reported in the news that the Black Lives Matter foundation took in $90 million last year. I haven’t read about how the money is being spent. I would like to suggest college tuition, training programs for blue-collar positions, affordable housing, small businesses, etc. I think BLM should be...
Letter to the editor: Charen needs to use plain English
When I saw, on the Trib’s Opinion page, that someone named Mona Charen had written a piece apparently damning “cancel culture” (“Both sides need to cancel cancel culture,” Feb. 26, TribLIVE), I started to read it, hoping to find out just what cancel culture was. After completing my read of...
Letter to the editor: Base gun decisions on facts, not emotions
During covid we have been told to follow the science, data and facts for making decisions. I guess such thoughts have been tossed when looking at recent proposed gun control leglislation from Congress. Universal background checks, magazine capacity limits, “assault weapons” bans have all been done before. The past data...
Letter to the editor: Converting to natural gas could help pay for roads
Gov. Tom Wolf’s idea to form a commission to solve the problem of paying for our roads could be a workable solution (”Gov. Wolf seeks to phase out Pennsylvania’s gas tax,” March 12, TribLIVE). Here’s an idea for the commission: Instead of proposing a new tax, Wolf’s favorite idea, how...
Letter to the editor: Disagree with election results? Return stimulus checks.
Here’s a novel idea for everyone who thinks Joe Biden’s election to the presidency was fraudulent, and especially for those who continue to display Trump signs and flags to disagree with the election results: When your stimulus checks arrive, don’t accept them. Return them to the U.S. Treasury Department, since...
Letter to the editor: Resist oligarchy with antitrust laws
We all know Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-predicting groundhog. Lesser known, there are many sage woodchucks all over the region, spanning all areas of expertise. Henrietta Woodchuck lives in the vacant lot behind the house here in Perry Hilltop. Her specialty is world politics and macroeconomics. It’s a popular double major...
Letter to the editor: 11 million illegal immigrants
For over a decade the accepted number of illegal immigrants living within our borders has been 11 million. This has been repeated by the liberal media and picked up and parroted by politicians and taken as gospel by those who can’t substantiate that on their own. We are told that...
