Opinion category, Page 437
Letter to the editor: Moving on from Mon Oakland Connector
Good news overall, but “Focus of Pittsburgh’s proposed Mon Oakland Connector project changes” (Feb. 11, TribLIVE) needs a few corrections. The Mon Oakland Connector drew opposition from a wider range of Pittsburghers than “public transit advocates” and “some Greenfield residents.” Neighbors from Hazelwood, Greenfield, Oakland, Panther Hollow, Four Mile Run...
Editorial: Is marijuana marketing proof it’s the next Big Pharma?
The conversation surrounding marijuana has shifted over the years. It went from being demonized for decades to being suggested as helpful in relieving symptoms of some medical conditions to being touted as all but a miracle cure. In 2016, Gov. Tom Wolf signed the law that made medical marijuana legal...
Letter to the editor: Local governments need power, accountability
Kenneth R. Nath’s letter “Government should start doing more with less” (Feb. 11, TribLIVE) is a valuable comment about local government. Hundreds of elderly patients died in nursing homes during the pandemic. A bridge collapsed after it was inspected and deemed safe to use. These failures were not due to...
Letter to the editor: Jonah Goldberg off base on ‘coup attempt’
Jonah Goldberg’s op-ed “RNC’s idea of ‘legitimate political discourse’ shows how far gone it is” was one of the most vicious, descriptively unpleasant and emotionally raw points of view I have ever read. However, Goldberg’s rage keeps him from seeing certain relevant facts. When the Jan. 6 committee was being...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Does being a land of plenty make us a land of good?
A week or so ago, it was peanuts. Unsalted, roasted in the shell, to be exact. But lately, it’s always something, some commonplace commodity that suddenly cannot be found at the store. Strawberries. Peppers. Ground turkey. And Lord, don’t even get me started on Ore-Ida Golden fries. I used to...
Christopher Brooks: Supreme Court should revisit history in affirmative action cases
The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina for unconstitutionally discriminating against Asian-American students in its admissions program. As justices revisit the issue of affirmative action, they could learn something from John S. Rock, the first Black attorney admitted to practice before...
James Dillard: Does scaring people work when it comes to health messaging?
In the recent film “Don’t Look Up,” two astronomers learn that a comet is on track to collide with Earth and destroy human civilization. When they try to sound the alarm, all manner of obstacles get in their way. In the end, well, you’ll have to watch the movie to...
Letter to the editor: How can anyone justify abortion?
Abortion is the killing of innocent human beings. Forty-nine years and over 62 million innocent children simply discarded. How can anyone be so heartless and cruel? How can anyone justify such a heinous act? If you do not want the child, please don’t kill it. Give it up for adoption...
Letter to the editor: Bradshaw, not Roethlisberger, the greatest quarterback
I do not like when Ben Roethlisberger is portrayed as our greatest quarterback. Terry Bradshaw has been through more battles than Roethlisberger ever saw, and people keep forgetting he won four Super Bowls. Roethlisberger had great defenses the same as Bradshaw, but he survived before all of the rule changes....
Letter to the editor: Biased media a danger to our country
How do you explain the many extreme, conflicting viewpoints in the pro-Biden and anti-Biden letters in this paper? Are both sides getting the same set of “facts” from their media? For example, I believe that MSNBC and CNN and much of the mainstream media are in the back pocket of...
Letter to the editor: Tired of Fauci’s tactics
Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s covid rule-maker, recently challenged Fox News as a source of covid misinformation. This time, Fauci’s ire was directed at Tucker Carlson and his frequent guest, Alex Berenson. Berenson is an investigative journalist who challenges the “vax everyone” mandates. He reports on vaccine effectiveness, questions the lack...
Editorial: Contractors and government both need good communication
On the surface, it’s kind of funny. Construction equipment is what people use to dig things up. It’s not supposed to be the stuff that gets sucked down into the ground. And yet there they are — two bright yellow excavators sticking out of the muddy ground along the Allegheny...
Letter to the editor: Where’s proof of hospitals’ covid ‘subsidies’?
“Early on, state and federal subsidies were offered to hospitals throughout the nation for administering specific treatments and reimbursing hospitals for deaths classified with covid-19. These subsidies are poor incentives for achieving the mutual goal of minimizing suffering.” This is a quote from Garrett Ringler’s letter “End covid reimbursement policies”...
Letter to the editor: Republicans taking us back to the past
In the past, I thought the Republican Party wanted to return to an idealized version of the 1950s and 1960s. Men were the breadwinners. A much lower number of women were employed outside the home. However, recently I have begun to realize that what the GOP really wants is to...
Tom Purcell: Four-day workweek? I wish.
Three-day weekends sound good to me. According to Business Insider, a movement is afoot for companies to offer employees four-day work weeks — 10 hours a day over four days, rather than eight hours over five days — so they may enjoy three-day weekends. More employers say that a four-day...
Matthew Jordan and Sydney Ford: Canadian trucker protests show how the loudest voices in the room distort democracy
After Canadian truckers upset with vaccination mandates made their way to Ottawa, they parked their vehicles near Parliament and started making noise — lots of it — blasting their air horns day and night, disturbing the repose of citizens at home, work and in school. The local reaction was swift....
Beverly Moran: The IRS already has all your income tax data — so why do Americans still have to file their taxes?
Doing taxes in the U.S. is notoriously complicated and costly. And it gets even worse when there are delays and backlogs, making it especially hard to reach the Internal Revenue Service for assistance. But to me this raises an important question: Why should taxpayers have to navigate the tedious, costly...
Paul Petrick: The Russia-China alliance
What a difference a half century makes. In February 1972, the People’s Republic of China hosted a history-making American delegation headed by President Richard M. Nixon, the Middle Kingdom’s most important Western visitor since Marco Polo. In February 2022, no Western heads of state were in Beijing as the city...
Letter to the editor: Where’s coverage of Clinton investigation?
Where is the coverage of the disclosure of the Durham investigation that the Clinton campaign was involved in the Trump-Russia collusion that dominated news for over three years, tearing this country apart? Is the media complicit in this serious crime? Richard Hohmann Mechanicsburg...
Letter to the editor: False narrative on voting
No legal registered citizen who votes is being denied their right to vote. No one. Each of the 50 states makes up election procedures, constitutionally. Every two years there are major elections, for president and Congress. That’s plenty of time for anyone who wants to vote to do so. Find...
Letter to the editor: Gun owners targeted by Democrats?
Last year in a truly unremarkable way, I became a target of the Democratic Party. How did this happen? I bought my first firearm. I’m a middle-aged white guy who never grew up around guns and before last year, I knew nothing about them. My initial interest came about after...
Letter to the editor: Biden hypocritical
It seems we have a hypocrite at the helm of our nation, saying one thing while hiding what’s really going on. He tells the American people there is no border problem, and focuses on people coming from just three countries; meanwhile, there are thousands coming from more than 100 countries,...
Letter to the editor: Casey, Toomey must protect our right to vote
In January, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the urgent need to safeguard Americans’ right to vote. In Pennsylvania, and the rest of the country, voter suppression efforts include gerrymandering and voter ID requirements. Pennsylvanians are at risk of losing their right to vote. This disproportionately impacts...
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 21
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Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 21
Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 21....
