Opinion category, Page 348
Letter to the editor: Fetterman will overcome his health issues
Many famous and successful individuals have had health issues and other problems that they were able to overcome. Franklin Roosevelt survived polio and could not walk and was elected president of the United States four times. Bob Dole survived war wounds and served in the U.S. House and Senate. Vietnam...
Letter to the editor: Legislation key to saving birds, wildlife
An extinction crisis threatens birds around the country, including in Pennsylvania. Fortunately, Congress has legislation in the works that would save birds and wildlife. Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) would address bird and other wildlife declines by providing $1.3 billion annually for state and territorial wildlife action plans, and $97.5...
Lori Falce: Is crypto the MLM of dudes?
My friends and I were talking about the collapse of FTX — the cryptocurrency trading firm that suddenly declared bankruptcy last week. It was a scandal that might have been of epic proportions if not overshadowed by things like the U.S. election vote counting and developments in the war in...
Laurels & lances: Renew, revisit, rethink
Laurel: To everything old being new again. When the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation gave a $160,000 rehabilitation loan to Dave Rankin to breathe new life into the old G.C. Murphy building in Tarentum, the hope was that it would preserve old architecture and benefit the area. The response to...
Letter to the editor: Thoughts from the Trump rally
I got to President Trump’s rally in Latrobe at 2 p.m., and there was a long line waiting to get in. A reporter and her cameraman passed by and I asked what channel they worked for. She said, “CNN.” Well, everyone around me backed up at the same time and...
Colin McNickle: The union elephant in PASSHE’s room
The 14-school Pennsylvania State System of High Education, or PASSHE, has been beset with many woes over the past dozen years. There’s the tanking enrollment. Then there’s a darn-near open acceptance policy for those who do enroll, which does a disservice to those wholly unprepared for college-level studies. PASSHE also...
Letter to the editor: Maybe Oprah will have something for us all for Christmas
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman made Oprah Winfrey’s Christmas list this season. He’ll be under the tree we can’t afford without all the presents that won’t be there. And forget about going to Grandma’s, because gas is too expensive. Maybe Oprah will have us all over to Braddock for her 12...
Editorial: Politics should include a little more parental guidance
This month, Westmoreland County Commissioner Gina Cerilli Thrasher will take on a new role with a constituency of one — her about-to-be-born first child. Thrasher is one of a growing number of women in politics — especially women actively building their careers and their families at the same time. In...
Letter to the editor: Thank those who educate our students
American Education Week is Nov. 14-18. Every year, right before Thanksgiving, we take time as a nation to celebrate our public schools and to say thank you to all the Pennsylvanians who come together to make our schools strong. That includes educators and support professionals as well as students, parents,...
Jonah Goldberg: Will the GOP finally do something about its Trump problem?
On election night, Donald Trump took to his post-truth social media platform, Truth Social, to spin the results. His first utterance was to celebrate Republican Joe O’Dea’s loss in the U.S. Senate race in Colorado. “Joe O’Dea lost BIG!” Trump crowed. “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” O’Dea had distanced himself from...
Dr. Asif Ilyas: Opioid settlements, prosecutions are heartening, but education still necessary
A $26 billion settlement with opioid manufacturers in March. A $13.8 billion settlement with pharmacies in November. And jail time for prescribers across Pennsylvania and the nation over the past few years. These settlements with the manufacturers and purveyors of narcotics and the prosecution of “pill mill” doctors are heartening....
Charles McElwee: Midterms reveal trouble for GOP in Pa.’s suburbs
This past week, Pennsylvania voters once again defied prognostications, rejected the status quo, and exhibited how demography has realigned the state’s politics. An unpopular Democratic president (born and initially raised in the region that delivered Donald Trump’s 2016 statewide victory), surging voter registration numbers for Republicans and economic disaffection failed...
Letter to the editor: Veterans appreciate Applebee’s efforts
I wanted to give a shout-out to Applebee’s restaurants for their generous Veterans Day event again this year. Very much appreciated. They were one of the first to recognize us vets, and they treat all with respect and dignity and do it with a smile that makes everyone feel special....
Letter to the editor: Our healing must start with God
During his presidency John Adams said the following to the Massachusetts militia: “We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net....
Letter to the editor: What will Oz’s next moves be?
A few weeks ago, I asked if Dr. Mehmet Oz loses the election for U.S. senator of Pennsylvania, would he move to another state. Now, I would like to ask if he moves, will he move to a highly gerrymandered Republican state giving him a better chance of winning? Or...
Editorial: A real way for Kim Ward to make history
On Tuesday, state Sen. Kim Ward, R-Hempfield, notched another first. After serving as the first female Senate Majority Leader for the past two years, she was elected by her fellow Republicans to become the chamber’s Senate President Pro Tempore. She is also the first woman to serve in that role....
Letter to the editor: Is Biden delusional or scheming?
“The plausible impossible” is a phrase coined by Walt Disney to describe the animation technique of overstressing small actions to make them appear to produce major effects or actions. A touch of truth leads us into fantasy. Disney used it to amuse and entertain. I believe President Biden and his...
Letter to the editor: Baffled by Trump support
I grew up in the mill-town suburbs of Pittsburgh. The “mill hunks” of my neighborhood were tough and didn’t take any “guff.” I had thought that no blue-collar worker would vote for Donald Trump because of his well-known penchant for cheating contractors. In my old neighborhood, that just wouldn’t have...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Still fighting for an America I’ve never seen
I have never seen America. Yes, like Bruce Springsteen, I was born in the U.S.A. But, as I’ve argued before, America is less a place than a set of democratic ideals: equality, self-governance, the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of protest, liberty and justice for all. America is...
Albert Eisenberg: Mastriano a case study in not building a coalition
It was shortly after viewing the clip of the wife of Doug Mastriano — Pennsylvania’s ill-fated Republican nominee for governor — jumping in front of a press conference microphone to tell reporters that they “probably love Israel more than a lot of Jews do” that I thought to myself: Are...
Cal Thomas: Toxic Trump must leave the stage
“I don’t believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.” — Football legend Mike Ditka “The future is now.” — Football legend George Allen Former president Donald Trump appears ready and eager to announce...
Letter to the editor: Electing the dead is not so unusual
According to Newsweek magazine, there have been a number of people elected to office despite the fact that they were dead. Newsweek identified Simon Silva as the winner of last Tuesday’s election for city attorney in Chula Vista, Calif., despite dying a month before the election. In Tennessee, a Memphis...
Letter to the editor: Let’s not get too optimistic, Democrats
Well, it’s a week after the midterms, and it appears the GOP might just have recovered from their Trump-induced psychosis. It should be a hoot to watch President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron Desantis go at it. The Democrats seem to be crowing a bit too much, though. Last Tuesday’s...
Letter to the editor: Disappointed in Spirit’s Ft. Lauderdale move
Regarding the article “Spirit Airlines to cut flights from Arnold Palmer Regional to Ft. Lauderdale” (Nov. 8, TribLIVE): Does Spirit Airlines fail to understand that there are thousands of direct roundtrip Ft. Lauderdale to Latrobe passengers who use this airport from other places than Western Pennsylvania? I have been on...
Editorial: Will Pa. pay the price for colleges’ tuition border wars?
The State University of New York is making it plain that it sees Pennsylvania’s high school students as an interstate commodity. “If your high schooler wants to go to college in New York, the State University of New York offers same in-state tuition as Penn State,” SUNY said in a...
