Opinion category, Page 521
Letter to the editor: Enabling disabled to marry
I am disabled. And this past year, I watched my able-bodied friends struggle with postponing and downsizing weddings, while living with the reality that I can never ,marry without risking loss of life-sustaining health care. Marriage should be an equal option for all, including disabled people. As long as we...
Letter to the editor: A history lesson on slavery
Contrary to statements made by some of our current political leaders, white slavery predates Black slavery in America. The white slaves not indentured, who began to arrive here in 1618, included hundreds of children who had been rounded up from the streets of London. Other slaves came from the ranks...
Editorial: Masks, flu and listening to the doctor
There was a lot of pushback against masks during the coronavirus pandemic. While some people embraced even the simplest homemade fabric coverings for whatever layer of protection they might afford, others rejected them. They sometimes claimed the cloth was useless, stopping nothing and just acting as a prop in a...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Klavon’s wage hike great for business and workers
When Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor in Pittsburgh’s Strip District recently doubled its starting wage to $15 per hour plus tips, the owners quickly received over a thousand job applications for 16 positions they were unable to fill under the existing minimum wage. This rush to scoop ice cream at the...
Jessie Carmichael: Pediatric shift nurses crucial for fragile children
Every day, thousands of medically fragile children across Pennsylvania rely on the state’s pediatric shift nursing program to stay safe and healthy at home. Since 1993, this program has allowed these children to be cared for at home by skilled, professional nurses. It keeps families together, out of hospitals and...
Sounding off: All in Pennsylvania are deserving of an honest living
Thought experiment for Gene Barr, president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, who, according to the article “Is extra $300 in federal unemployment assistance stopping people from applying for jobs?” thinks we should take “that extra $300 (per week of unemployment benefit) and offer it to jobless workers...
Letter to the editor: Real world vs. fantasy world
There are people who live in the real world (conservatives) and people who live in a fantasy world (liberals). Now that Democrats control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, their No. 1 goal seems to be taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, their loved...
Letter to the editor: Reasons to join RGGI
As a soon-to-be college graduate, I know that my generation sees environmental issues as important because we know our future is at stake. Addressing climate change cannot be postponed any longer, especially in Pennsylvania, the fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter in the nation. To address climate change, Pennsylvania should join...
Letter to the editor: Ideas for dealing with rioters
In this letter I use two portmanteau words. A portmanteau is a word blended from two distinct words, such as crack and addict to form craddict, and dead and derriere to form deadierre. I, and many of my fellow Americans, are fed up with the anarchy that prevails in many...
John Stossel: A dump with a view in New Jersey
Home prices keep climbing. It’s another reason to let people build housing. But corrupt politicians sometimes prevent that. The little town of Edgewater, N.J., sits right across the Hudson River from Manhattan. A developer, Maxal Group, bought a dump site there and proposed building more than a thousand new waterfront...
S.E. Cupp: Marjorie Taylor Greene pollutes the Republic
Editor’s note: S.E. Cupp’s column will run Saturdays, while Mona Charen’s column moves to Mondays. After the freshman congresswoman from Georgia recently lit a firestorm comparing mask mandates to the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust, she came out with a fresh batch of crazy. In the early morning...
Michael Brevda: Holding nursing homes accountable
SavaSeniorCare LLC, a skilled nursing facility corporation with facilities in Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay more than $11 million (in addition to further penalties, should certain contingencies occur) to resolve allegations that the entity violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for services fraudulently. The complaint against Sava made...
Letter to the editor: Officer should be charged in Chicago boy’s killing
George Floyd’s death led to conviction of his killer. Daunte Wright’s life was taken by a police officer who has been charged with manslaughter, but not murder. Adam Toledo’s killer has not been charged with anything. This 13-year-old boy was shot and killed March 29 by a Chicago police officer...
Letter to the editor: Save us from Biden’s magic pen
Well, I thought I said everything about how I feel about President Biden, but it never stops with him. I guess he’s trying very hard to turn America into a communist country with all his hypocrisy. I don’t think any previous president has made such progress in destroying people’s lives...
Lori Falce: Six degrees of big decisions
My son enjoys a good game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. In his version, it’s more Six Degrees of Marvel Movie Characters, but the principle still holds — especially since Bacon played the villain in “X-Men: First Class.” Take any actor — or person, really — and find the...
Letter to the editor: What Republican Party has become
Former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner recently stated, “There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump Party.” So what exactly is a Trump Party? Well, since former President Trump “hijacked” the party, here’s what I think it stands for: Pushing the “big lie” that the election was stolen,...
Paul Kengor: NFL and MLB, move your offices
I continue to get emails from Trib readers regarding my columns on Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred engaging in an economic boycott of Atlanta because of his disapproval of Georgia’s election-integrity laws. It was shameless. Everyone is sick and tired of the politicization (and cancellation) of everything, and here...
Laurels & lances: STEM, sentence, study
Laurel: To great ideas. STEM — the acronym for science, technology, engineering and math — has been a priority in education for years as a schools and government alike emphasized the rich opportunities for future careers in all the fields it could open. Three Fox Chapel Area students are showing...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Covid, the crisis that did not bring us together
There is no such thing as the united States. As an era of medical mask mandates draws to a close and we begin to ponder lessons learned, that one should top the list. Not to overstate the case. To our credit, we are a nation that has always united in...
Rep. Natalie Mihalek: Restoring our education system after covid-19
As a mom and a state representative, education is always on my mind. It pains me to see how children have been suffering throughout the covid-19 pandemic — especially when it comes to lost learning opportunities. While schools in my area have reopened, across Pennsylvania, many children haven’t been in...
Earl Baker: A new energy revolution in Pa.
In a momentous milestone for Pennsylvania, the Revolution Pipeline is now online. Over the past decade, energy has provided the Keystone State and surrounding Appalachian region an abundance of natural resources, jobs and economic growth. Revolution, a 40.5-mile pipeline, is just another example of the importance of infrastructure to the...
Letter to the editor: Why no tributes to Officer Brian Shaw?
There were tributes to George Floyd all over the country, including an invitation from President Biden for his family to visit the White House. I haven’t heard anything about a tribute to officer Brian Shaw, the New Kensington police officer gunned down in 2017. Small tributes, yes. Not to mention...
Letter to the editor: Useful idiots of Democratic Party
It’s pathetic! Many of the Trib’s letter-writers must just turn on CNN, or similar cesspools of false information and incitement, and hit the “record” button on the side of their brains, then later plunk their sorry butts down at their little keyboards and hit the “play” button. They all spew...
Letter to the editor: Sickness in Republican Party
Rep. Liz Cheney was removed from her Republican leadership post in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 12 because she had the courage and integrity to criticize President Trump. She said he is a danger to our democracy. There is a sickness in the Republican Party, and its name...
Jonah Goldberg: GOP — ‘mostly peaceful’ for me, not for thee
Last summer, after months of protests and riots in response to the murder of George Floyd, the phrase “mostly peaceful,” often used by the media and Democrats to describe the protests, achieved parody status thanks to a CNN clip. It showed a reporter in Kenosha, Wis., standing in front of...
