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Jordan Clark: Graham Spanier’s so-called ‘rush to judgment’
“A scheduled on-campus appearance by former Penn State President Graham Spanier was canceled Wednesday after the university canceled classes and some school activities because of wintry weather. Spanier had planned to promote his book, ‘In the Lion’s Den: The Penn State Scandal and a Rush to Judgment,’ in an appearance...
Cal Thomas: Inhumanity in Memphis
No adjective is sufficient to describe the reaction one gets from watching five Memphis police officers beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to within an inch of his life. He later died of his injuries in a local hospital. “Inhumane” and “senseless” are as close as it comes. While Nichols was accused...
Carl P. Leubsdorf: Debt ceiling showdown is probably not what Congress imagined in 1917
It began as a way to make it easier for the federal government to sell bonds to finance the U.S. role in World War I. Now, more than a century later, the requirement for a legal ceiling on the federal debt has become something totally different: a political time bomb...
Letter to the editor: ‘Context’ and book challenges
Regarding the editorial “Does Norwin director’s book challenge require more context?” (Jan. 18, TribLIVE): Talk about the liberal Trib calling the kettle black! They are attacking the messenger, not the message. Only conservatives require “context.” It’s quite OK for liberals to rewrite the meaning of words or history, even though...
Letter to the editor: America is broke
In the letter “Republicans holding us hostage” (Jan. 26, TribLIVE), the writer accused the Republicans of blackmail in which all of us are held hostage by playing a high stakes game of chicken over whether or not to increase the debt ceiling. It would be highly appreciated if the writer...
Editorial: Colleges should stop hiding how much they cost
Whether President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive some $400 billion in federal student-loan debt goes forward will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court. For now, there’s more the federal government should be doing to rein in the costs of higher education — and thus reduce how much students borrow...
Letter to the editor: Israel not apartheid government
I find it necessary to correct false statements in the letter “Trump and antisemitism” (Jan. 19, TribLIVE) responding to my letter “The real antisemitism” (Dec. 17, TribLIVE) regarding the antisemitic statement of Rep. Rashida Tlaib accusing Israel of being an apartheid government. The writer incorrectly defined Israel as an apartheid government...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 30
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 30....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 30
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 30....
Michael Reagan: Biden’s lost docs and losing war
It’s a stretch, but I think I know the real reason the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago. We’ve been told for months that the DOJ ordered a search of Donald Trump’s home in Florida because he was not turning over a bunch of classified documents to the National Archives fast enough. Supposedly,...
Letter to the editor: Fern Hollow reporting exceptional
I am writing to compliment Jonathan Silver on his excellent reporting and prose in the article “Forever Changed” (Jan. 22, TribLIVE) marking the anniversary of the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse. He not only filled in many of the gaps in the story that had piqued my curiosity, but he also...
Letter to the editor: No Pride Night hypocrisy
Tim Benz trying to make sense of the comments regarding Ivan Provorov’s protest on Pride Night in Philadelphia was confusing if not amusing (“I’m not a fan of Ivan Provorov’s Pride Night jersey boycott, but also dislike hypocritical media fallout,” Jan. 20, TribLIVE). The CBC (government owned) is not the...
Editorial: Greensburg chief’s resignation after charges was a service
On Tuesday, Shawn Denning embarrassed the people of Greensburg when he was arrested at City Hall on federal drug charges. He immediately did what may have been the best service he offered to those same people. He resigned as the chief of police. Denning, 41, is free on $250,000 unsecured...
Letter to the editor: Restoring Churchill’s Westinghouse site
In 2021 and 2022, Churchill faced a proposal to build a 2.9-million-square-foot Amazon distribution center at the former George Westinghouse R&D site. During planning commission meetings and public hearings, we learned of the historic significance of the site, which is potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Can we save Downtown Pittsburgh?
People are worried about Downtown Pittsburgh. The recent daytime killing of a young man in broad daylight in the heart of Pittsburgh’s business and entertainment district has some businesses and residents worrying that Downtown might be over. It was the latest in a string of violent encounters and brazen shootings...
Viewpoint 1: Bipartisanship is alive and well, but that’s not necessarily a good thing
Old habits die hard, as the saying goes. But myths and legends do, too, as Hunter S. Thompson famously said. When it comes to government, there is one idea that endures despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It is that bipartisanship is inherently good but essentially dead in our polarized...
Viewpoint 2: Is bipartisanship good? That depends
Bipartisanship is the solution to some problems, but it also helped create them. On the one hand, if you are a classical liberal with a strong preference for fiscal responsibility, bipartisanship generally gets you nowhere. Big Capitol Hill deals mean big spending. On the other hand, the only path to...
Letter to the editor: Jan. 6 — we can never let it happen again
It should have never happened in our country, but it did. The attack on the U.S. Capitol two years ago was an attempted coup, an attack on our democracy to try and stop a free and fair election. It certainly wasn’t a tour of the Capitol. I knew that day,...
Sounding off: Politics, Jan. 6, immigrants among week’s topics
We must stop demonizing each other I am tired of reading letters to the editor from so called “conservatives” who equate worshipping at the altar of Donald Trump as being “real Republicans.” Conservatives come in an array of flavors, including this never-Trumper. Apparently if you don’t agree with the far...
Letter to the editor: We must stop demonizing each other
I am tired of reading letters to the editor from so called “conservatives” who equate worshipping at the altar of Donald Trump as being “real Republicans.” Conservatives come in an array of flavors, including this never-Trumper. Apparently, if you don’t agree with the far right section of the party that...
Editorial: The ticking clocks of Pennsylvania’s poor bridges
For the people on the Fern Hollow Bridge on Jan. 28, 2022, the unthinkable happened in a heartbeat. There was a banging sound. There was confusion. Was it a crash? There was a drop. One moment, it was a normal Friday morning, driving in the snowy January weather. The next,...
Letter to the editor: All students deserve an excellent education
In his op-ed ”Now’s the time to tackle the charter vs. public school problem” (Jan. 17, TribLIVE), Isaiah Trumbull blamed charter schools for the Pittsburgh School District’s (PPS) poor performance. Unfortunately, his op-ed is full of misinformation. Far from “underfunded,” PPS receives $27,700 per student, about $12,000 more than the national...
Gary Franks: Comparing Biden’s document handling with past presidents’ misdeeds
In U.S. history there may never have been a time when a sitting president of the United States grossly mishandled or did not properly secure classified documents until President Joe Biden. Depending on what is contained in the documents and who had access to them, significant damage could have been...
S.E. Cupp: Republican liars go far beyond George Santos
“Honesty is such a lonely word.” As the great Billy Joel once sang, “Everyone is so untrue.” That could be the anthem for this modern era, when liars and lying are not only tolerated, but rewarded for their artful deception. Now comically synonymous with the countless lies that he’s told...
Jerald McNair: When a 6-year-old is accused of shooting his teacher, it’s time for a paradigm shift
Six-year-old children should be learning to read, identify new words by matching letters to sounds, count to 100, and do basic addition and subtraction. But now we have a 6-year-old who allegedly shot his teacher in Newport News, Va. Unfortunately, school shootings are not uncommon. There have been more than...
