Letters to the Editor category, Page 264
Letter to the editor: Scalia held that Second Amendment not absolute
I have known Jim Albert for many years, both as a magistrate and as Westmoreland County sheriff, and I’ve always liked him. However, his recent letter to the editor (“Second Amendment is absolute,” April 3, TribLIVE) declaring I was wrong in my letter stating the Second Amendment is not absolute...
Letter to the editor: Pa. must hike funding for nursing homes
It’s time for Pennsylvania government to fairly fund long-term providers that care for Pennsylvanians in nursing homes. Medicaid funding, which covers most of the costs, has been flatlined by the Wolf administration. After being in the heart of covid-19, nursing homes watched as Gov. Tom Wolf again proposed flat funding...
Letter to the editor: Consequences of transgender athletic competition
What is the future of high school female sports programs? President Biden recently signed an executive order making it federal policy, and encouraging states to follow, to allow transgender females to participate in high school female sports. Far-left Democrats in Congress want to make it mandatory. What are the consequences?...
Letter to the editor: District 59 leader must be responsible
Helen Sitler’s letter “Mariah Fisher ready to represent” (April 4, TribLIVE) makes it sound like Fisher likes to spend someone else’s money. What about creating actual good-paying jobs for us and for college graduates so we don’t need to leave the county or state for them? This is done by...
Letter to the editor: Would one overall gun law work?
Given that we already have thousands of gun laws on the books that aren’t working, President Biden needs to pass a new national law that supersedes all other gun control laws. It should be short and definitive. Something like: “It is illegal for all convicted criminals, future criminals, the mentally...
Letter to the editor: What Doug Chew’s constituents want
The testimony submitted by Republican Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew to a state senate committee seeking comments on election integrity and reform deserves further response. It is a bit more than many constituents can swallow let alone, errr, chew on, especially his statement that “… most of my constituents would...
Letter to the editor: Skewed views on guns
In response to Al Duerig’s letter “More guns means more shootings” (March 28, TribLIVE), in which he uses all of the words anti-gun organizations blurb, I would like to offer the following: His analogy of “I hear all the gun advocates’ arguments and scoff, like guns don’t kill, people do....
Letter to the editor: Biden and his magic pen
The following is a movie that needs to be canceled so our children don’t see it: It is titled “Pinocchio Joe and His Magic Pen.” It hasn’t been three months and this puppet has made America the joke of the world. If you don’t or didn’t like President Trump, that’s...
Letter to the editor: Combine vaccine passport, voter ID
As I read about the perpetual political wars over the concerns of having a vaccine passport, my solution (to please both Democrats and Republicans) is to just print the vaccine passport on one side and the voter ID on the other side. Simple, everyone is happy and the country is...
Letter to the editor: Guns and mass shootings
Don Grasser in his letter “Our rights are for everyone” objected to the observation that “more guns mean more shootings.” He asked, “Guns were bought at a record pace last year, and how many mass shootings were there?” Well, this is something he could easily have looked up: Do gun...
Letter to the editor: Dangers of vaccination passports
Medical freedom and informed consent have always been fundamental principles in the American health care system. Requiring “vaccination passports” (documented evidence of vaccination) not only intrudes on the privacy of health information and frustrates the principles of medical freedom and informed consent, but its most nefarious infraction is that it...
Letter to the editor: Why Pa. turns out stellar wrestlers like Spencer Lee
I enjoyed Bill Beckner’s article “Iowa senior, Franklin Regional grad Spencer Lee named nation’s top wrestler” (March 30, TribLIVE). The article looked at Lee being named the Hodge Trophy winner for two years in a row, which is remarkable. Lee’s career at Iowa has been incredible as was his high...
Letter to the editor: Politics shaping faith, negatively
I was very impressed by Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column “Small wonder the church is shrinking” (April 6, TribLIVE). He states that for the first time since Gallup has been tracking religious membership, we are at an all-time low. In 1937, 73% of us belonged to some form of house of...
Letter to the editor: Abortion burial proposal invasion of privacy
Dear state Rep. Kathy Rapp: You continue to introduce legislation about me without returning my offers to talk. You don’t consult with the health care professionals that cared for me and my baby. Instead, you choose to bury your head in the sand because you don’t want to hear the...
Sounding off: We don’t deserve the wealthy’s money
President Biden’s new plan to fund American public programs is by taxing the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a question of if they should, but how much. Yet the question that is never asked is, “Why do we deserve their money?” The seemingly overlooked answer is we do not. Elon Musk,...
Letter to the editor: Urge leaders to work to prevent another pandemic
I can’t believe that a year ago this month my university sent me home because of the “new virus.” I remember thinking, “This won’t last long; in a couple weeks I’ll be back in school and everything will be back to normal.” Now here we are, a year later, with...
Letter to the editor: Mail-in voting good enough for Trump
Kudos to Commissioner Doug Chew. When I saw the headline “Westmoreland commissioner says county voters want end to no-excuse mail-in ballots, another disputes that” (March 23, TribLIVE), I wrote a blunt, acerbic email to the commissioner that emphatically indicated that I wanted to retain the mail-in ballot option. The commissioner...
Letter to the editor: Republicans making sacrifice by refusing vaccine
Republicans who refuse to get the covid vaccine are to be commended for making the ultimate sacrifice. Some Republicans are good people, of course, but clearly that doesn’t apply to Republicans in Congress. When they weaken American democracy, deny climate change and reject science, they create a menace to human...
Letter to the editor: Writer belittled our land, president, intelligence and hope
It is rare that a liberal hater can besmirch, demean and insult as broadly as Al Scovern did in his letter “Loyalty to Trump has gotten Allegheny Valley nowhere” (April 8, TribLIVE). He belittled our beautiful Western Pennsylvania countryside, our former president, our intelligence and our hope in one fell...
Letter to the editor: Tell Chew, other leaders how you feel about voting process
I am thankful to Rich Cholodofsky for writing the article “Westmoreland commissioner says county voters want end to no-excuse mail-in ballots, another disputes that” (March 23, TribLIVE). Sadly, Doug Chew is certainly not adequately representing all Westmoreland County residents. I disagree with the assertion that constituents do not want “mail-in...
Letter to the editor: Totalitarianism frightening — and coming
Coming soon to a theater near you: the frightening blockbuster with the unforgettable catchphrase, “Show me your papers, please.” It’s the request for your internal passport: the vaccine documentation necessary for any travel, social gatherings, purchases and so much more. We’ve seen this movie before, and it never ends well....
Letter to the editor: Self-denial seen in Trump signs
In response to Rick Tatano’s letter “Keep Trump signs up” (April 11, TribLIVE): Yes, please do keep them up. Show Americans how you are self-denying. Show real Americans how you still follow a man who would try to do anything to be president — as far as suggesting a coup....
Letter to the editor: Morality of gun control vs. abortion
In his letter “Gun violence prevention laws effective and a moral imperative”, Rev. Vincent Kolb laments mass shootings and states “anyone with compassion who values human life should be morally outraged by our society’s refusal to prevent this slaughter.” Someone should ask him about the morality of the 60 million...
Letter to the editor: Misconceptions on vaccines, Biden, voter rights
Recent letters to the editor have blamed the poor inoculation progress in Westmoreland County on not having a health department and the county commissioners. I believe the fault lies solely at the state level. It doesn’t matter whether a county had a health department; none knew when, or how much,...
Letter to the editor: GOP’s racism
Republican efforts to restrict voting rights and widespread attacks on people of color and immigrants are symptomatic of many white Americans’ attitudes promulgated, in my opinion, by none other than Donald J. Trump. Sadly, his racist legacy lives on and will continue for many years. It is this nonsensical idea...
