Letters to the Editor category, Page 308
Letter to the editor: Trump unfit to be president
To further give credence to William Hite’s letter “Books about Trump are must-reads” (July 25, TribLIVE), why is it that the more President Trump spews lies, the more his supporters approve of his behavior, which I find boorish and disgusting? Plain and simple, this man has proved time and again...
Letter to the editor: Denouncing the Democratic Party
You’ve got to be kidding! I will never vote for Sen. Pat Toomey again. Where is his loyalty? Where is his determination to denounce the whole Democratic Party for the last several years — Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, et al.? I believe they are all thieves, liars and heathens;...
Letter to the editor: We need cheap, rapid, over-the-counter covid-19 test
As a Pittsburgh infectious disease physician, I applaud Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Michael Mina’s covid-19 surveillance approach, which he outlined in a July 3 New York Times opinion piece and at microbe.tv/#640. He endorses a cheap, rapid, over-the-counter covid-19 test. While it will miss some infections, it will be fewer than...
Letter to the editor: Plan for safe return to schools
After reading an article about schools resuming in-person classes, I came up with a plan to ensure that students can safely return. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, half of the students and half of the teachers would be in school, and the other half would be in school Thursdays, Fridays...
Letter to the editor: Tax breaks for frackers unacceptable
The fracking and petrochemical industries have been profiting off of making people sick for years, and this is not an outdated trend. In October 2019, it was widely reported that ExxonMobil is scouting to build another cracker plant in Beaver County. Actions like this are unacceptable. The General Assembly just...
Letter to the editor: New St. Vincent archabbot a great choice
It is obvious to me that letter-writer Tom Kerek knows nothing about Archabbot Martin de Porres Bartel (“Numbers guys making the decisions,” Aug. 3, TribLIVE). He is an excellent choice to be archabbot of St. Vincent Archabbey. I think having an MBA and a juris doctor might be a good...
Letter to the editor: Peace, respect, work ethic are key
No matter what color the person or uniform, we all matter. It seems the news media does not agree. The death of an innocent person is always a tragedy. If a Black criminal dies by the hand of a white policeman, it is often on the news for months and...
Letter to the editor: Communist threat to America
The United States of America was formed by its Declaration of Independence from tyrannical England. The people wanted to be free to worship God and to live free from dictates of those who ruled. It took a very bloody war of unprecedented sacrifice to accomplish. The greatest document in the...
Letter to the editor: Science, abortion and Black lives
Being that science and anthropology teach us that human life begins with the first cell (zygote) in the mother’s womb, that makes abortion the beginning of killing Black lives and all lives for that matter. Abortion would then be the beginning of racism and opposition to humanity. We have a...
Letter to the editor: Pa. nursing home data errors alarming
After reading the article “Pa. nursing home data used to track covid-19 deaths, cases riddled with errors” (July 17, TribLIVE), I believe one might legitimately ask if there is some conspiracy afoot to shut down the economy. The Pennsylvania Department of Health showed 76,336 residents at an Elk County nursing...
Letter to the editor: Citizens should be able to vote out bad cops
We the people should have the right to vote out a police officer based on proof that he’s a bad cop. Citizens pay tax dollars to pay officers to protect and serve, and that’s not what’s transpiring in many situations. We the people can vote out mayors, governors, Congress members...
Letter to the editor: Trump diverting our attention from his failures
As covid-19 continues to spiral out of control across the country, President Trump runs ads portraying himself as the “law and order” president. He sends faux-military people without identification and without marked vehicles to nab and detain journalists and protesters from the streets of America, similar to when police in...
Letter to the editor: Done with the NFL
Dear Steelers, It’s not you, it’s me. I am a 62-year-old lifelong Steelers fan. I grew up in the Pittsburgh area. I can tolerate crying, whiny, millionaire players, as that really hasn’t changed in all those years. I can even tolerate supporting a cause I don’t agree with. But I...
Letter to the editor: Media mind control
What do The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC have in common? They all play a big role in determining what Americans see, read, think about and ultimately believe. Sprinkle in lesser-known but still large institutions like Slate, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and HuffPost, and you have...
Letter to the editor: Babies’ lives matter, too
I keep hearing “lives matter,” and “we need to protect lives,” which are completely true sentiments. No matter how you talk about this issue, someone will absolutely be upset, but here’s the thing: Daily during the virus, babies’ lives didn’t seem to matter. The governor of Pennsylvania did not shut...
Letter to the editor: Climate action in Pa.
Buffeted by a global pandemic, political partisanship and dismay with government gridlock, what can a grandmother do to address the ticking time bomb of climate change? Harkening back to the article “Western Pa. lawmakers fight Gov. Wolf on Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative” (Nov. 19, TribLIVE), I reviewed supportive information from...
Letter to the editor: Numbers guys making the decisions
I pride myself for “rolling with the punches. Over the course of 70-plus years, it’s been a challenge. Yet another one looms. In the 1970s, a new breed of owners and managers deemed that rather than people who know their product (or service) inside and out, mathematicians were better suited...
Letter to the editor: Protesters do not speak for all of us
Of course, absolutely Black lives matter, but Black lives and all lives need to learn how to comply with police orders. I’d like to ask people what they would do in the following situations: • What would you do if a police officer signaled you to pull over? Would you...
Letter to the editor: Wrong to give tax credits to frackers
As the government continues to defund education and environmental programs, I am losing hope for the future of my generation. Our air and water are polluted by fracking, placing communities across Western Pennsylvania at higher risk for cancer, yet our government plans to give money to the companies who may...
Letter to the editor: Decreasing taxes to 25% a great idea
Just read Greg Massung’s letter “25% capacity should mean 75% decrease in rent, plus property tax relief” (July 26, TribLIVE). Although the amount of tax is already reduced by the reduced income of those businesses, his idea of reducing that amount to 25% is a stroke of genius. Let the...
Letter to the editor: Veterans need help during pandemic
During these troubling times, we all want to reach out to help others. Food drives, monetary donations and volunteer work are ways people help others. Our veterans groups also need everyone’s help. This pandemic has put a strain on all veterans groups nationwide. With no bingo, no hall rentals and...
Letter to the editor: Biden’s climate plan wasteful spending
It shocks me that some people cannot see the absurdity of the Democratic Party and how far left it has gone. I think the Democrats’ plans and policies are completely illogical and nonfunctional. Recently, Joe Biden said he plans to convert 500,000 school buses to zero emission and upgrade government...
Letter to the editor: Waiting for Trump’s ‘powerful strategy’
On July 21, President Trump led, without any other members of the coronavirus task force present, what was billed as a coronavirus task force press briefing. This was his first attended coronavirus task force press briefing since April 23, when he stated, “And then I see the disinfectant, where it...
Letter to the editor: Can’t vote Democrat due to abortion
Many of us have heard about the danger of voting based on one issue. However, when that issue is a matter of life and death, especially for the most innocent and vulnerable, then this “one issue” assumes overwhelming importance. I am speaking about abortion on demand as permitted by the...
Letter to the editor: Facts becoming irrelevant as we tear down history
In his column “Tear all the statues down?” (July 9, TribLIVE), Paul Kengor laments the removal of statues such as that of Stephen Foster, due to the perceptions some have of its meaning. Well, no surprise there. How can you expect people that don’t care to learn history to know,...
