Letters to the Editor category, Page 332
Letter to the editor: Child care critical, in need of funding
I have been an early child care educator and advocate for 28 years. I have owned and operated Helping Hands Childcare & Learning Center in Imperial for 21 years. On March 16 my doors closed to the 65 families the center serves and the 14 educators I employ. The abrupt...
Letter to the editor: Baseball and coronavirus
Tampa Bay Rays’ player Blake Snell reacted to a plan whereby Major League Baseball owners proposed a 50-50 split of revenues if only half of the games are played by announcing that he wasn’t about to give up anything in his five-year, $50-million contract. He flatly stated, “I’m not playing...
Letter to the editor: Penguins should pay damages to taxpayers
The editorial “Penguins miss shot with arena development project in Lower Hill District” (May 15, TribLIVE) missed the mark. This is not about the Penguins or Stanley Cups, rather a broken agreement. The saga began with owner Mario Lemieux’s threat to move the team to Kansas City if he didn’t...
Letter to the editor: Long hair, pot smoking prevail
The slugs, the nonconformist, wasted potheads of the ’60s, appear to have won. Now in 2020 thanks mostly to the liberal states, it is OK to smoke pot but against the law to get a haircut. Was this the objective all along? One has to wonder. Oh and by the...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s hydroxychloroquine
As the late President Ronald Reagan might have said, “There you go again, Mr. Trump!” The president began touting the benefits he believes would ensue to fight the coronavirus from the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. We have since learned from doctors, including the esteemed...
Letter to the editor: Gov. Wolf, give us back our rights
Gov. Wolf: On March 16, you ordered us to close our businesses and schools and to stay at home. You told us that this was necessary to “flatten the curve” so our hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Not only have Pittsburgh’s covid-19 ICUs never been overwhelmed, they’ve never even been full....
Letter to the editor: Heroes Act, jobs and cannabis
The U.S. House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi passed a $3 trillion package to help save the economy during the covid-19 pandemic. It is titled the Heroes Act. Certainly there are many still suffering, and we can acknowledge there have been heroes all around us. But in a bill to help...
Letter to the editor: Polling location consolidation is a bad plan
Allegheny County has announced that polling locations are being consolidated due to coronavirus (“Allegheny County votes to consolidate primary polling locations”). Monroeville’s one polling location will be at the Monroeville Convention Center. I believe the proposed consolidation plan is counterproductive from the perspective of both public health and voters’ rights....
Sounding off: Courageous leaders make hard decisions
The criticism of Gov. Tom Wolf by legislators, district attorneys and state representatives exposes the hypocrisy behind their “live free or die” recommendations that counties open businesses earlier than considered safe. We need to support leaders of courage who risk threats when they make unpopular, necessarily restrictive decisions. This virus...
Letter to the editor: No desire for Tom Wolf’s ‘pep talk’
Fellow taxpayers: I find it particularly insensitive and even downright vulgar to allow our exalted ruler of the state, Gov. Tom Wolf, to be able to give a “pep talk” in TV ads. He talks about the resolve of the people of Pennsylvania, and yadda, yadda, yadda, during this crisis....
Letter to the editor: Just wear the mask
What is the big deal about wearing a mask when you are out in public? No one is asking you to storm the beaches of Normandy, or fight in southeast Asia or the Middle East. All that is being asked of you is to wear a mask in public because...
Letter to the editor: Franklin Regional implosion imminent
The Franklin Regional budget for 2020-21 confirms the coming school district’s financial implosion, to be precipitated by the Sloan campus debt. Current operations and growing debt payments are producing massive deficits that will consume all general funds within four years, even with annual Pennsylvania maximum tax increases. This follows the...
Letter to the editor: Living on love in time of coronavirus
The produce stands, roadside fruit markets and grocery stores both large and small are now open for business. But I thought we could live on love alone. John Greco Cheswick...
Letter to the editor: Decency in the White House
Not all Trump supporters are moonshine-swilling hillbillies or white evangelicals who have left their consciences in the vestibule. They are joined by those who are simply satisfied with full bellies and crammed wallets. Add to their number the spineless Republican senators, who, after the president was impeached — and, yes,...
Letter to the editor: The real ‘Crossfire Hurricane’
With the dismissal of the “perjury trap” prosecution of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the real “Crossfire Hurricane” has landed. Let the destruction begin. The unfiltered data just declassified by the acting director of national intelligence seems to support my personal opinion that Barack Obama was a heinously corrupt president. It’s...
Letter to the editor: Back to normal at warp speed
“Operation Warp Speed” could be the new Trumpian slogan that ought to do the trick. That will show the pesky covid-19 who’s boss. We’ll simply ignore the raging pandemic and go back to normal. Vaccine by year’s end? Sure! It has been ordered. Miracle cures, silver bullets, magical thinking …...
Letter to the editor: Why are big stores open, small businesses closed?
Because of the diverse opinions on business closures while we deal with the coronavirus, I believe most of us know that the heart of American industry is small business. Therefore, I call on Gov. Tom Wolf to use a bit of common sense. I simply cannot understand why businesses such...
Letter to the editor: Wolf leaves service industry in dark
Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to veto House Bills 2506 and 2513, which are aimed at getting restaurants and liquor-licensed establishments open and appear to be bipartisan. Will Wolf once again leave the service industry in limbo? A third bill, HB327, which is an attempt to give liquor-licensed establishments the...
Letter to the editor: Social distancing is a dangerous experiment
I believe social distancing is an experiment on our emotional health. Humans need physical contact for our mental health, from babyhood through our adult lives. I fear social distancing will cause increases in spousal and child abuse, suicide, murders and other crimes. When scientists studied babies in Romanian orphanages whose...
Letter to the editor: Thoughts from a front-line cashier
I only wanted to be a cashier. Now I’m deemed essential. So I work, exhausted, on the “front lines,” praying I won’t bring covid-19 home. I only wanted to be a cashier. Now I must enforce social distancing. “Can you please step back?” I only wanted to be a cashier....
Letter to the editor: How are those on TV getting haircuts?
I, like most people, am becoming a shaggy dog. In watching news programs and political ads, I noticed that none of those people seems to need a haircut. I would really like to know where they are getting hair care. In a short time, I won’t be able to identify...
Letter to the editor: Democratic candidates
Considering the New Jersey Democratic Party once allowed a last-minute substitution on its 2002 Senate ballot because Robert Torricelli was involved in an ethics scandal and trailing badly to Republican Douglas Forrester, does anyone not believe that the Democratic National Committee will attempt the same malarkey due to grave concerns...
Letter to the editor: Taxes on leased vehicles
One of Pennsylvania’s best-kept secrets is a 9% tax on leased vehicles (in some counties it may be 10%). Having leased three vehicles in the last five years, it wasn’t until I returned my Nissan Rogue to the dealership and received a final disposition fee of $395 plus a tax...
Letter to the editor: Appreciating government actions on coronavirus
The run for the White House is sealed. Until coronavirus arrived, things in the government were unsettled. As soon as politicians were aware of its seriousness, they started doing what they had to do. Our country was locked down, then the flow of money began to help with food, business...
Letter to the editor: Leaders, saints during pandemic
To be or not to be, that is the question. This line of Shakespeare is the one that first comes to mind for most people. Prince Hamlet is musing on the comparison between the pain of life and the fear of the uncertainty of death and of possible damnation of...
