Letters to the Editor category, Page 369
Letter to the editor: Blackout trauma in New York
So a small part of NYC lost power from right after dinner to right before bed. Wall to wall, commercial free cable news coverage. It was such a catastrophe that Komrade Bill DeBlasio suspended his presidential campaign, aka the No Chance in Hell Express, and immediately got back home, later...
Letter to the editor: Mike Doyle can help fight global AIDS crisis
Over the past 15 years, we’ve made immense progress in the global AIDS fight, but the disease remains a deadly crisis. Every day, the AIDS epidemic claims 2,500 lives. Earlier this year, the House Appropriations Committee took a big step toward continuing America’s leadership in the AIDS fight by maintaining...
Letter to the editor: Opposition to gerrymandering, census question ploys for votes
It confuses me how anyone could be opposed to gerrymandering and the citizenship question on the census. Aren’t they both political ploys to affect voting outcome? One is by redistricting, and one is by counting people who aren’t citizens and should have no right to vote. The citizenship question is...
Letter to the editor: Tax cheats should be forced to pay
I was shocked when reading the Highlands School District delinquent taxpayer list — not only by the sheer number of people who haven’t paid their taxes, but the amounts, many over $10,000. Clearly some people have not been paying their taxes for years, and nothing happens to them, other than...
Letter to the editor: Censorship & disingenuous global warming report
On March 4, Apple removed Westmoreland author Greg Wrightstone’s Inconvenient Facts smartphone app from its App Store. The preferred view is that extreme weather is surging. We are spun and told a partial truth in regards to global warming data. The impacts are exaggerated and the costs of fixing it...
Letter to the editor: School directors’ contact information should be public
Please tell your local legislators to support House Bill 703, which would make it mandatory for school board members to publish their email addresses so their constituents can contact them. Even though the bill does not go far enough, as it should also mandate that they provide their phone numbers,...
Letter to the editor: Integration vital for ending hatred of Muslims
If I told you that 10,000 Muslims and guests gathered in a town in Pennsylvania to celebrate peace and to share an olive branch with their neighbors, would you hold it to be true? Or would you fear the unknown? The Ahmadiyya Muslim community held its annual convention, the USA...
Sounding off: 13-star flag was co-opted by hate-mongers
When I first heard about Nike removing its Betsy Ross flag shoes from the market, I was dismayed and thought that people where being too touchy-feely and too PC. Once I heard the context of the situation, I understood the objection. I always saw that flag as a starting point...
Letter to the editor: Let’s be civilized, decent again
Let’s be civilized, decent again Let’s all go back to where we came from; about 90% of me would have to go to the British Isles, and the rest chopped up between Sweden and Germany. I guess I could take part of a cousin or two along, but they’d have...
Letter to the editor: Federal system has gone astray
Under our federal system, legislation is enacted to ensure equal justice, provide for our national security, act as a safeguard of our rights and freedoms, promote and regulate commerce, ensure general economic benefit, and enumerate and restrict in many ways government power. Our federal laws should always be just, good...
Letter to the editor: Alternatives to accruing college debt
I understand that the op-ed “Plan would slash higher-education costs” is all about debt. It is not about paying off debt, merely getting out from under debt at the expense of someone. Me, I’m a taxpayer. If you owe the government at whatever level and you don’t pay, I do....
Letter to the editor: Media, Trump & double standards
Talk about a double standard! How come it’s OK for some Democratic congresswomen to say whatever derogatory things about the president they wish, but it’s not OK for the president to get angry and call them out for it? I understand the bitterness of current political discourse, but the readiness...
Letter to the editor: Party affiliation change brings freedom
Our family traveled to Deep Creek, Md., for Independence Day. Along with relaxation, I found personal freedom there. Between dinner and the fireworks, I went online and changed my party affiliation from Republican to none. I am now free to think, vote my conscience and stop fighting with people who...
Letter to the editor: Recalling unity of the Apollo moon landing
In 1963 in an interview with Life Magazine, Jackie Kennedy quoted a line from her late husband President Kennedy’s favorite musical: “… ‘Don’t let it be forgot that once there was a spot for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot’.” She concluded by saying it would never...
Letter to the editor: 100% renewable energy
Have you ever seen a starfish? I have, and I hope one day I can take my kids to the beach and they can see one, too. However, these fascinating creatures’ habitat is being threatened by climate change. Climate change is largely fueled by dirty polluters that consume an insane...
Letter to the editor: If America is mediocre, why welcome illegals?
My hometown in the late ’50s had a small grocery store and a tiny fruit and vegetable store. When apricots or avocados came in, word got out, as it was a big deal. I went to Giant Eagle to buy potatoes for potato salad. There were six varieties of potatoes,...
Letter to the editor: We don’t need to eat more meat
The “Eat your meat” article in the July 9 edition was truly tragic. In a country where more meat is consumed than anywhere on the planet, writing an article that prompts seniors (I am 71) to eat even more is ridiculous. It is a scientific fact that any diet sufficient...
Letter to the editor: Penn Hills bailout costing taxpayers
The Penn Hills School District is in debt to the tune of approximately $175 million. Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office said that investigators found gross financial mismanagement. What is the district doing to erase this massive debt? The answer is to allow the government to bail it out using your...
Letter to the editor: Twin Lakes Heritage Festival the best
My wife and I were vendors at the 2019 Twin Lakes Heritage Festival and just wanted to drop a line to show our appreciation to the festival staff and volunteers. We attend many festivals through out the country and the Twin Lakes festival is without exception the most well organized,...
Letter to the editor: Put Americans first
I am so angry right now, I could spit. My 93-year-old mother, American born and raised, needs financial help to stay in her home until her time comes. My sister and I provide 24-hour care to her. I have tried to get financial aid from all the sources available to...
Letter to the editor: Electric furnaces & steel
The Bessemer process for making steel was invented in 1856 and was used by Andrew Carnegie in his Mon Valley operations. Today’s blast furnaces/coke batteries that are used in U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley operations are just an updated version of the Bessemer process and are thus archaic technology. Maybe U.S....
Letter to the editor: Dedicated police, emergency workers in Freeport
We cannot thank the Freeport police and emergency crews for their efforts on May 28, when a horrible storm caused the collapse of a portion of our basement wall, along with our basement steps, while my husband, Chuck, was on them. Fortunately he was not hurt, and the emergency crews...
Letter to the editor: Red Cross issues urgent call for blood
Summer can be a busy time full of fun activities and vacations, but the need for lifesaving blood transfusions never stops. In fact, every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood. Right now, the American Red Cross is facing an emergency need for blood and urges eligible donors of...
Letter to the editor: Socialist Democrats’ freebies
In case you missed it, the recent Democratic debates confirmed that the Democratic Party is now officially the socialist Democratic Party … period. The old Democratic Party, which used to stand for the working class and families, is gone. The new socialist Democrats represent elitists and government. They believe they...
Letter to the editor: Crazy Trump world
Are we living in some crazy alternate world? In a time when Americans are so easily conned by a wannabe autocrat, Republicans follow lock-step President Trump’s behavior of lies. Republicans professed themselves as the “Christian group,” strong morality. Now these same folks support Trump’s racist and, yes, anti-Christian ideas. In...
