Letters to the Editor category, Page 339
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh Zoo’s accreditation doesn’t break lease
The editorial “Pittsburgh should OK zoo accreditation” (March 6, TribLIVE) supporting the Pittsburgh Zoo accreditation by the Zoological Association of America (ZAA) as not a lease violation is absolutely correct. The condition that Pittsburgh Councilman Bruce Kraus argues as a lease violation is that the zoo broke the lease when...
Sounding off: Think, verify before you post
With the rise of Facebook and Twitter, we have all become media outlets. With the click of a mouse we can share news links with our family and friends. When we share a story, we are applying our personal stamp of approval. Sometimes, we are saying we think something is...
Letter to the editor: Saving lives via organ donation
Many area hospitals participate in campaigns from Jan. 1 to April 30 to raise awareness of cornea, tissue and organ donation. Part of my hospital’s mission in this challenge is to dispel myths that prevent people from registering for organ donation. While 95% of us say we support organ donation,...
Letter to the editor: Immigrants and coronavirus
While President Trump visited India last month, mobs attacked Muslims in several locations. Over 30 people were killed, including an elderly woman burned to death in her home. A writer for Atlantic Monthly notes that “pogrom” is the correct term for such attacks. As in czarist Russia and Nazi Germany,...
Letter to the editor: Anger, resentment as old as time
If you check most any news source, whether local, national or world, you will see a preponderance of it concerning factionalism, nationalism, partisanism, tribalism, separatism, angry divisiveness between political parties, religions, races, genders and niche identities. We choose our exclusive groups to bond with, then point the finger at outsiders...
Walter Williams: We have no ‘right’ to health care
Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I believe that health care is a right of all people.” He’s not alone in that contention. That claim comes from Democrats and Republicans and liberals and conservatives. It is not just a health care right that people claim. There are “rights” to decent housing, decent...
Letter to the editor: Bezos’ wealth could cover a lot
Let’s imagine that Jeff Bezos, who accumulates almost $9 million an hour, lived in a world with Bernie Sanders’ 8% “extreme wealth” tax (on fortunes over $10 billion). A single year would see $9 billion flow into government coffers from Bezos’s $115 billion treasure trove, more than enough to cover...
Letter to the editor: Methodist Church & LGBT people
Western Pennsylvania will soon welcome spring with colorful blooms and sweet aromas. On this Sunday, there’s a sky as blue as popsicles from my childhood. My girlfriend “KB” and I walk hand in hand looking for a church. We walk up to a stately stone United Methodist Church surrounded by...
Letter to the editor: Tale of 2 Americas
Reading recent letters, you’d think there are two Americas. One is certain righteousness, President Trump’s logic and reason, spouting claims that “He has arrived,” supporting a chosen son who’d make Geppetto’s head explode. The other squandered all political capital promoting morally offensive “progressive” social reforms while abiding archaic bureaucratic mores...
Letter to the editor: Reasons for Trump support
Four possible reasons why certain voters rabidly support the impeached B-actor President Donald John Trump: Either they’re deaf, intellectually disabled and blind, or they are of his ilk. Anthony Cortazzo Jr. Penn Township, Westmoreland County...
Letter to the editor: Paying on both ends with MAWC
On Feb. 11 at 4:15 a.m., we awoke to our water pipes banging. Then we had brown, muddy water in our house. On Water Street in West Newton at 7:40 a.m., the fire hydrants were open full onto the streets, and water crews were working on several streets. We pay...
Letter to the editor: Stop importing from China
The recent outbreak of covid-19 from the coronavirus originating in China should force us to reexamine the wisdom of importing so many of our products from China. I believe it is high time to consider ways of manufacturing more of our products in the U.S. Many products shipped from China...
Letter to the editor: ‘Mediacrats’ & mind control
The Democratic Party and the great majority of the news media have a symbiotic relationship. They support and live off of each other. It’s the height of collusion and greatly influences elections. The Republicans in Congress have historically been the designated losers, like the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters....
Letter to the editor: President Trump & coronavirus battle
It’s not very reassuring that the man on the front line protecting us from the coronavirus is the same person who had (allegedly) unprotected sex with a porn star. Joe Lucas South Side...
Letter to the editor: Dead people voting is easy to prove, disprove
The issue in the letter “No excuse for not requiring ID to vote” regarding ineligible voters can be easily proved or disproved by a comparison of voter databases with Bureau of Vital Statistics’ death records. Both are considered to be public records and can be easily compared to see if...
Letter to the editor: For sake of world, Trump must be voted out
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi symbolically trashed the president’s State of the Union speech. Her actions described his three years in office. He has trashed our Constitution, the environment, our farmers by issuing tariffs on China, the children of immigrants, citizens with speech and other impediments, our relations with our friendly...
Letter to the editor: More on turnpike nightmare
In his op-ed “The truth behind the turnpike nightmare” (Feb. 22, TribLIVE), Matthew Brouillette of the Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs mentions former state Senate President Pro Tempore Bob Jubelirer — the same senator who vowed that the turnpike would never connect directly to Interstate 70 at Breezewood without passing...
Letter to the editor: Why Democrats hate Trump
You’re on the 50th floor of a burning building with two choices: be consumed by the fire or jump. At the last minute, a fireman appears; however, you are acquainted with him and rumors say he is a sexist, racist, homophobic womanizer. What to do? Jump into his arms, or...
Letter to the editor: Congress violating our rights
I listened to Congress citing constitutional violations and how they need to be addressed. I then looked at my copy of the Constitution and couldn’t get past the Bill of Rights. For those who have not had civics in school (since it is no longer required curriculum in some states),...
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh parks deserve equal treatment
It’s been more than three months since Pittsburgh voters approved via referendum a 0.5 mill property tax increase to fund city parks. All of our parks are necessary for the quality of life of everyone in our region. I believe the City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy will...
Letter to the editor: Judge too easy in drug case
Is it any wonder we have a drug problem in Westmoreland County? In January 2019, Laplez Cummings led police on a three-mile car chase, tossing 2,600 stamp bags of heroin out and then jumping out of the moving vehicle and fleeing on foot. Police had to ram his unoccupied vehicle...
Letter to the editor: Where’s evidence on Russian interference?
I am a bit skeptical about all of the news of Russian interference in this year’s presidential election. I hear and read about these allegations coming from sources that made these same claims about President Trump’s election in 2016. Do not tell me to believe these accusations without showing unbridled...
Letter to the editor: Where’s conscience on abortion bill?
“Shame, shame, shame,” Gomer Pyle would spurt when someone behaved inappropriately. It was fiction. It was funny. “How do you live with yourself?” the fireman asked George Constanza after George had run over women and children to escape an apartment fire. It was fiction. It was funny. “Shame, shame, shame....
Letter to the editor: We need politicians who will reform economic system
During this current presidential campaign, the economy and especially capitalism and socialism have been big issues. Destroy capitalism, because of corporate greed and the greed of CEOs! Adopt socialism, that will fix everything! In his book “Saving Capitalism,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains that our government does control the...
Letter to the editor: Democrats’ political suicide
I have written several letters in recent years explaining that the Democratic Party is committing political suicide by adopting a socialist/communist ideology and committing itself to those beliefs. The latest “debates” show they are in full “Thelma and Louise” mode. Until this year, the Dems have been able to hide...
