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Letter to the editor: Trump doesn’t have qualities needed to serve common good
According to the article “Why Butler County is so crucial to Trump’s election chances” (July 6, TribLive), southwestern Pennsylvania and Butler County play significant roles in the upcoming election. We remain concerned Catholics who have been challenged to integrate gospel aspirations when we vote. To be more specific we consider...
Letter to the editor: It’s clear Biden isn’t up for the job
After the humiliating and bizarre surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan, resulting in 13 dead and dozens of horribly wounded U.S. troops, and hundreds of dead and wounded Afghan civilians, I wrote a letter titled “Democrats’ double standard” (Sept. 21, 2021), pertaining to President Biden’s mental decline, that was published...
Laurels & lances: Kids giving back
Every week in this space, we give a spotlight to some of the best and worst news. Sometimes it’s a smaller aspect of a bigger story. Sometimes it’s a piece from one community that might have been missed by others. This week, we know what the lance is. Everyone knows...
Letter to the editor: Stop the anger and hate that divides us
As a 76-year-old American, I have lived through the assassination of President Kennedy and his brother Robert and the Rev. Martin Luther King. America must stop the hateful rhetoric that accuses a political opponent of wanting to be a dictator and attacking their principles. I lived through the Vietnam years,...
Lori Falce: Butler victims deserve better than conspiracy theories
The conspiracy theories come faster these days. There was a time that it took months or years for a good skeptical narrative to develop around major events. The apocrypha surrounding the Freemasons, for example, have been 400 years in the making. Flat Earth theories in the modern era can date...
Paul Kengor: Protecting presidential candidates, protecting the public
The day after the Trump shooting Saturday in Butler — which happens to be my hometown — I got a message from a friend who loathes Donald Trump (he doesn’t like Joe Biden either). As we struggled to assess the security failure that nearly led to Trump’s assassination, my friend...
Colin McNickle: PIT’s rising passenger count still trails national gains
While passenger levels at Pittsburgh International Airport recovered to May 2019 numbers this past May, they continued to lag the national upturn, says a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. “There is no escaping the fact that the strength of local economies is an important driver of air...
M. Thomas Davis: Determination, experience, wisdom — Joe Biden has it, Donald Trump does not
Winston Churchill once noted that, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” It is among the many immediate misfortunes that the old Prime Minister is not around to give former president Trump a badly needed lesson in foreign policy. Fortunately, President...
Letter to the editor: Assassination attempt an outrage
All of the officers, staff and membership of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 92 in Lower Burrell pray for a speedy recovery, physically and mentally, for David “Jake” Dutch, his wife, Sheree, and extended family. Jake is a Marine Corps veteran and an active and valued member of our post....
Claudine Schneider and Susan Molinari: Violence against women takes center stage at the Republican National Convention
Violence against women, like all violence, is never acceptable. While both political parties have “said” we have to bring down the temperature in political discourse, evidently such empty pledges fall short when it comes to the GOP and women. The GOP is not only refusing to rebuke violence, but elevating...
Letter to the editor: Too much hatred of conservatives
The Trump assassination attempt is a blatant warning that too many people in the U.S. possess a mindless hatred of conservatives. With liberal leadership demonizing and misrepresenting conservatism, our society is rife with knee-jerking hostility to necessary opposing views. Conservatives believe in equality, that government is supposed to be for...
Editorial: Trump shooting shows need for hospitals and first responders
The shooting Saturday at the Donald Trump campaign rally in Butler County will be a dark day in American history. But amid the finger-pointing about what went wrong with law enforcement and how the Secret Service should have been better prepared, there are things being neglected. Namely, there should be...
Letter to the editor: Trump ready for U.S. fascism
Donald Trump now has everything he needs to institute American fascism. The astounding majority opinion in Trump v. United States functions like the Nazi’s Enabling Act of 1933, placing Trump above the rule of law. And Saturday’s assassination attempt in Butler County constitutes Trump’s Reichstag fire, goading the MAGA faithful...
Conor Lamb and Kate Harper: Western Pa. ready to lead hydrogen energy revolution
Western Pennsylvania has abundant natural resources and now it has the opportunity to be at the leading edge of a technological innovation that can change our communities, our economy and the world — all for the better. That’s what we have with the advent of hydrogen as a viable low-carbon...
Jonah Goldberg: Trump assassination attempt leaves Biden with just 1 viable political option
One can hardly fault Donald Trump for believing divine providence is on his side. He’s had the most impressive lucky streak in living political memory. While his debate performance was exceptional only if graded on a curve, his opponent’s was a debacle by any objective standard. Then the Supreme Court...
Letter to the editor: Companies should find courteous humans to answer phones
I recently had a package delivered by FedEx; however, it wasn’t delivered to my house. I called FedEx and got a machine; after going through the drill, it hung up with no answer as to where my package was. I repeated this four or five more times and couldn’t get...
Letter to the editor: Marc Fogel is correctly detained
What’s with everyone determined to spring Americans who trafficked narcotics internationally? As a medical marijuana patient and advocate, I can say that Marc Fogel is actually correctly detained, pursuant to both American federal and Russian laws. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and I find it hard to believe...
Letter to the editor: The real top issues for voters
The letter “Vote for legislators who listen” (July 12, TribLive) appeared to be an attempt to persuade readers to adopt conclusions set forth by the author. The observations were “supported” by data presented as factual, but not sourced. I would submit that it either cannot be sourced or it came...
Editorial: Rustic Ridge report doesn’t deliver final answer
Investigations give us answers. They do not necessarily make us feel better. On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission delivered an answer to a question lingering since August. Did the Peoples Gas service lines play a part in the Rustic Ridge explosion that claimed six lives, obliterated three homes and...
Letter to the editor: Trump hate stems from promise to drain swamp
MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough and many Democratic politicians call Pesident Donald Trump an “existential threat to democracy” and cite the importance of keeping Trump out of the White House as their overriding concern, despite the prospect of an 81-year-old man with obviously declining cognitive abilities in the White House and...
Letter to the editor: Supreme Court’s moves
The Supreme Court conservatives essentially lied through their confirmation hearings, piously saying they would “respect precedent.” Now we also know some are demonstrably corrupt. Less noted is that, going back decades, they are also remarkably stupid. They made George W. Bush president, and he gave us two of the longest...
Sam Rosenberg: The Secret Service failed
There has been no shortage of political and cultural commentary related to the attempted assassination that occurred in Western Pennsylvania on Saturday night, so I will avoid that sort of commentary here. What I would like to focus on instead is related to security, and what I see as a...
Anita Prizio and Erika Strassburger: Pa. stands to gain from methane reduction funding
The recent announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy regarding $850 million in federal funding for methane reduction projects marks a significant opportunity for Pennsylvania’s economy and environment. This investment, part of President Biden’s ambitious climate agenda, not only aims to cut methane emissions from oil and...
Dennis Aftergut and Austin Sarat: The American tragedy of the Trump assassination attempt
Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was a crime against the entire country and against democracy itself. Every American should be grateful that it failed, and that Trump has survived it. Let’s say it plainly. It is an abomination that he was wounded as he campaigned for a...
Letter to the editor: Scary scenarios under Biden
I’m wondering where the writer of the letter “Project 2025 would end our freedoms” (June 27, TribLive) came up with all those terrible situations. Oh, I know — we already have them under President Biden. Frances Olyarnik Hempfield...
