Letters to the Editor category, Page 267
Letter to the editor: Remembering Hammerin’ Hank Aaron
Thank you to the Tribune-Review and Mark Madden for acknowledging the greatness of Henry “Hammerin’ Hank” Aaron (“Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Hank Aaron was one of sports’ most important figures,” Jan. 23, TribLIVE). It’s incredible that Aaron maintained his poise in light of almost constant racism. He was superior in...
Letter to the editor: Senators, representatives must stop supporting Trump
Notice to Republicans voting to censure those courageous Republican senators and representatives who voted to impeach and/or convict former President Trump: You do not represent all registered Republicans! Trump deserves to be punished in any way our society is able. He incited an insurrection against our government. What is wrong...
Letter to the editor: Shame on Wolf, teachers unions
So now it seems that our illustrious governor wants to raise taxes substantially to fund the teachers unions. The teachers unions are a great money laundering organization. They fund the Democratic Party, and in turn the Democrats give it back. How wonderful! If I were in charge and said I...
Letter to the editor: Task force needed to improve Pa. vaccination plan
LeadingAge PA renews its call for Gov. Tom Wolf to form a broader task force to quickly improve Pennsylvania’s lagging vaccination plan. Forming a bipartisan legislative group to address vaccinations was a start, but we can do more. Our organization represents more than 370 quality senior housing, health care and...
Letter to the editor: Dems will return House, Senate to GOP
I have to give Democrats credit for imposing the mail-in vote, because I think that’s the only way Joe Biden could get elected. My dead Republican relatives (there are many) are gleeful that the Democrats have revived their voting rights and are looking forward to future elections. I hope the...
Letter to the editor: When will Trump supporters stop believing?
It sickens me to see that, even after the terrorist attack on the Capitol and on democracy that I believe was incited by President Trump, people are foolish enough to still believe in him. Recent letter-writers have claimed the election was stolen, that it was Democrats dressed as Trump supporters...
Letter to the editor: Transportation key to returning to school
Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) parents want a return to school, but are they asking the right questions? The focus has been on teachers, but the issue is more complex. To return now, a school district as large as PPS would have to modify the CDC 6-foot distancing guidelines in order...
Letter to the editor: Toomey heading off liberal boycott
Regarding the article “Pennsylvania GOP may meet to discuss Toomey impeachment vote” (Feb. 15, TribLIVE): He is going into private business, and he does not want to be boycotted by the liberals like they are doing to others who supported President Trump. Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Letter to the editor: Right to keep Trump signs on display
Dear Rose Guerra (“Take down your Trump signs,” Feb. 8, TribLIVE): I don’t have my Trump sign anymore, but if I did, I would display it to let you and others know that it is my right to do so. If that embarrasses you and others, I’ll treasure that! Hannelore...
Letter to the editor: State leaders must fight climate change
I became aware of climate change at a young age. The rising temperature of our planet has caused extreme weather in Pittsburgh. One winter we would get a foot of snow, the next we would get none. Heat waves have become more common. Seeing these changes made me passionate about...
Letter to the editor: Remembering, mourning Butterball
Butterball was a wild turkey who made her home in the town of Forbes Road (“Forbes Road residents shocked gobbler ‘Butterball’ shot by game warden,” Jan. 16, TribLIVE). The people of Forbes Road accepted her and took her in as one of their own; they fed her and looked after...
Letter to the editor: In defense of Se. Pat Toomey
When I heard this on the news, I was stunned and had to see it in print: “We did not send him there to vote his conscience,” David Ball, chair of the Washington County Republican Party, told KDKA political editor Jon Delano. “We did not send him there to do...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment and the First Amendment
One reads with interest Jonah Goldberg’s essay “Impeachment trials aren’t about proving criminal behavior” decrying how lawyer pundits discuss impeachment, a political process, in terms of criminal proceedings. But one need not be a President Trump supporter to recognize the danger in asserting that, during impeachment, Congress merely plays a...
Sounding off: Teachers don’t need ‘immediate’ vaccination
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s letter to Gov. Tom Wolf calling for the “immediate” inoculation of teachers, although well-intentioned, looks only at the proposed benefits without the associated costs (“Peduto asks Gov. Wolf to vaccinate Pennsylvania teachers immediately”). This approach will have dire consequences. The covid-19 data shows a clear relationship...
Letter to the editor: Trump the only one to act on immigration reform
President Biden has gone against what recent presidents (and some congressmen) talked about on the subject of immigration reform. President Trump was the only one who did something about it. If you search “Where does Trump get his dumb ideas?” on YouTube, you will see Trump watching Sen. Dianne Feinstein...
Letter to the editor: Legitimize marijuana the right way
Regarding the article “Gov. Wolf seeks income tax hike to pay for big increase in school funding”: Anyone with a modicum of common sense can envision Gov. Tom Wolf’s MO in his proposal for a massive tax increase. There is no funding crisis simply because Tom Wolf proclaims it to...
Letter to the editor: We should all support pollution standards
The quality of our natural world and the health and well-being of human beings are inextricably linked. Climate change represents a threat to these at both a local and global level. Methane is the primary energy component in natural gas, used for everything from home heating to generating electricity, but...
Letter to the editor: Snowmobiles, ATVs desecrating our woods
How wonderful that the U.S. Forest Service and our so-called state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources have opened Pennsylvania woods to ever-increasing numbers of ATVs and snowmobiles (“ATV/snowmobile fever: Westmoreland, Allegheny lead Pennsylvania in registrations,” Feb. 14, TribLIVE). Ah yes — conservation through pollution and desecration. I wait for...
Letter to the editor: Where is the gambling money going?
I remember distinctly — before the infamous Nick Perry 666 Daily Number fix of the state lottery in 1980 — the promise that state-sanctioned gambling would benefit the elderly first and later eliminate or reduce school property taxes. Every expansion of gambling is announced with the pledge that the “new”...
Letter to the editor: Candidates should pledge to work for all constituents
Regarding the article “ ‘Trump House’ creator Leslie Baum Rossi seeks nod to run for open Pa. House seat”: This is an example of the partisan ways that must be eliminated from our democracy. Rossi’s comments such as “Trump is the best president we’ve ever had in my lifetime” and...
Letter to the editor: Democracy dwindling as GOP rewards Trump
When communism collapsed in the country where I was born, food disappeared from store shelves. We waited in line for rations of bread and sugar. Many evenings we had mandatory power outages. I know communism and its consequences. When I hear talk of communism from the radical right, it mostly...
Letter to the editor: More election investigations won’t change minds
Concerning the letter “Election investigation needed” and to others who have expressed similar views, I respond: Why? You would not believe the investigation results anyway, unless they come to the conclusions you want them to. This is why some of you watch only Fox News or similar media that only...
Letter to the editor: Politicians’ abuse of authority
“We the people” elect candidates to represent the best interest of our country. We do not elect them to run the country into the ground with their hate against each other, fighting between parties, misuse of our tax dollars and immoral ideas and actions to silence those of us who...
Letter to the editor: ACHD must do more in Clairton
At the recent Allegheny County Health Department hearing on new regulations for the Clairton Coke Works, I was touched and shocked by the testimony from the people of Clairton and Glassport. What these folks have had to put up with is unbelievable. The Clairton Coke Works produces more air pollution...
Letter to the editor: Is Biden up to the task?
The hotly disputed 2020 presidential election, resulting in the ascendancy of Joe Biden into the Oval Office, has proven to be a Rorschach test of various optimisms to many outside observers. At least, that is what seems to be the theme of the many quoted in Deb Erdley’s Page 1...
