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Richard Fellinger: Reaction to McCarthy’s hire shows ageism exists
Suddenly, I’m rooting for new Steelers coach Mike McCarthy, and I mean really rooting for him. I would have rooted for him anyway as a Steelers fan old enough to rattle off names like Terry Hanratty and Frenchy Fuqua. But I’m really rooting for him now because I want to...
Letter to the editor: What about the local criminals?
The Trump administration is saying they are keeping the U.S. safe from illegal immigrant rapists, murderers and drug dealers. What are state and local authorities doing about the homegrown American rapists, murderers and drug dealers? Remember Luigi Mangioni, Tyler Robinson and Matthew Crooks? The suspected homegrown local drug dealer who...
Letter to the editor: Address looming power problems now
PJM, the grid operator that serves 67 million people across 13 states, including all of Pennsylvania, is facing an unprecedented electricity demand surge due to AI data centers opening. Starting as early as summer 2026, the grid may have only enough power to remain reliable, and by June 2027, the...
Letter to the editor: Students don’t need Republican propaganda
Rep. Brian Rasel’s proposed Unraveling Socialism Act purports to address a crisis in higher education that simply does not exist. Requiring every student at a public college or university to take a mandatory class about the “threats” of communism and socialism is not education, it’s public theater. Justification by Rasel,...
Editorial: By the time it’s an emergency, it’s already too late
By the time the snow begins to fall, the most important decisions already have been made. When it’s time to clear the driveway, it’s too late to buy a shovel. You can see that after a massive winter storm swept across 17 states, closing schools, snarling roads and forcing public...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s hypocrisy on Maduro, Hernandez
Did you know that on Dec. 1, President Trump issued a full pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez? Hernandez was convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to import cocaine and firearms into the United States, trafficking more than 400 tons of U.S.-bound cocaine. Was it the pardon...
Letter to the editor: Trump is a policy genius
For years I have closely monitored our political parties’ policy preferences, the most important factor in candidate selection. Today, major party preferences are more dissimilar than ever. President Trump is a policy genius, whose views closely align with our Founding Fathers and the governing documents they produced. His passion is...
Lester C. Olson: Communication can help de-escalate our current situation
Armed conflicts and U.S. citizens’ deaths in Minneapolis have riveted attention across the nation. We’ve seen the videos and the photos of graphic violence. We’ve seen the heartbreaking photos of a 5-year-old preschool boy and a 2-year-old girl detained by ICE. We have read the upsetting media accounts of countless...
Gene Baur: New food pyramid is a recipe for health disasters
The meat industry’s celebration of the Trump administration’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans should be a clear sign that these new guidelines aren’t for the people. It’s true that “the United States is amid a health emergency,” as Secretaries Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brooke Rollins state. However, in claiming to...
Abby McCloskey: Too many kids already know someone who’s been deepfaked
The pre-AI world is gone. Estimates suggest that already, as many as one in eight kids personally knows someone who has been the target of a deepfake photo or video, with numbers rising to one in four who have seen a sexualized deepfake of someone they recognize, either a friend...
Letter to the editor: Comparing Renee Good, Jan. 6 rioters
It’s amazing. Anyone who gets shot by the unidentified, masked ICE agents is automatically described as a “member of some Latin American gang” or a “domestic terrorist” (37-year-old U.S. citizen mother Renee Good), and deserves to be shot in the face for not submitting to the screaming orders of unidentified...
Letter to the editor: Our leaders must support clean energy
Erika Strassburger’s op-ed “Clean energy provides jobs, consumer savings” (Jan. 20, TribLive) has some great news about America’s clean energy industry. As Strassburger points out, clean energy companies like Eos Energy invest in communities by building factories, helping people learn new skills and creating jobs for the future. With new...
Editorial: The number of Americans who feel politically homeless is rising. Understandably so
A record 45% of American adults now identify as political independents, according to new Gallup polling — up from 33% in 1990. That’s a big change. As the ranks of the politically homeless grow, the share of Americans who call themselves Democrat or Republican continues to shrink. That’s hardly surprising....
Letter to the editor: What will it take to disavow Trump?
Will his actions and behavior ever be enough to dissuade those who propelled Donald Trump into office for a second reign? Was it enough when he responded to a heckler with profanity and an obscene gesture? What does one tell an impressionable child when something like this takes place? Is...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 26
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 26....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 26
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 26....
Letter to the editor: Trump and the Ten Commandments
President Trump’s actions so far in 2026 have been head-spinning, but we can get clarity by checking them against some of the oldest and best instructions out there: the Ten Commandments. “Thou shalt not covet … anything of thy neighbor.” Trump says he attacked Venezuela to take its oil, and...
Letter to the editor: Help end online cat torture
Kittens and cats are being brutally tortured to death in online videos daily. In terms of sheer brutality, utter depravity, tremendous suffering and pure evil, this is the worst violence ever intentionally inflicted on animals — for “entertainment.” Methods include dismembering, skinning, crucifying, eviscerating, burning and mutilating, to name just...
Letter to the editor: Trump regime must be replaced
George Washington, in his farewell address, had two warnings. One was against a popular demagogue rising to the presidency and destroying liberty in his egotistical power quests. The other was this: “Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly...
Letter to the editor: Pa. must ban live pigeon shoots
Bucks County is home to a cruel and primitive practice that most Pennsylvanians believe belongs in the past: live pigeon shoots, held at the Philadelphia Gun Club in Bensalem. While the vast majority of states have outlawed this cruelty, legislative loopholes and political maneuvering have allowed it to continue in...
Editorial: ‘The Pitt’ shows why representation includes place
“Did you see on ‘The Pitt’…?” It’s becoming a regular refrain after the HBO Max medical series airs Thursdays. Each episode, set in a fictional Pittsburgh hospital, becomes a scavenger hunt of familiar yinzer treasures. The most recent included references to the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings and Zambelli Fireworks. Others have...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Who will stand up to government by threat?
You are not alone if you are astonished that the United States of America has been at the threshold of war because of Donald Trump’s hurt feelings over not winning the Norway-based Nobel Peace Prize. Trump takes everything personally, which makes you wonder how he has any room in his...
Imran Khalid: America’s 2 economies — soaring stocks and slashed food stamps
The close of the 2025 holiday season has revealed a stark divide in the U.S. economy. As 2026 begins, the United States appears to be operating in two financial realities: record corporate profits and soaring stock values for the wealthy, alongside deepening hardship for millions of ordinary households. For many...
Letter to the editor: ‘Transgender law’ doesn’t supersede natural law
The transgender athlete ban case being considered by the Supreme Court reminds me of a phrase I read while in undergraduate school. The phrase, as I recall, was intended to describe or detect a sense of humor or understanding the “absurd and incongruous.” It was drawn on the writings of...
Letter to the editor: Volunteer fire companies need financial support
The New Stanton Volunteer Fire Department needs to replace its 74-year-old fire station and has been working since 2022 to get major financial support from community-based businesses. They mailed solicitation letters to 19 major national and international businesses, including Amazon, Dollar General, Marriott Corporation, McDonald’s, United Parcel Service and FedEx....
