Opinion category, Page 594
Letter to the editor: Technicalities of voting
I would like to point out some facts about the conduct of the election. First, you can no longer vote a straight-party ticket by marking that option. The option was eliminated in the new election law. If you want to vote for all the candidates of your party, you must...
Letter to the editor: Schools should stay open
Everyone is familiar with the joke about the drunk looking for his keys under the streetlight, because that is where the light is best, even though he dropped his keys elsewhere. I feel there is something similar going on with the notion that closing schools will somehow affect the spread...
Letter to the editor: The excitement of Election Day
As Election Day nears, it’s impossible not to be more and more excited for the results. Finally learning which candidate will be able to start fulfilling all our hopes and dreams, starting Nov. 4. Just think, all your wants, wishes and desires will soon begin to be filled. Sometime between...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Nov. 2
Editorial cartoons for the week of Nov. 2....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Nov. 2
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Nov. 2...
S.E. Cupp: We simply cannot take 4 more years of this
The last election in 2016 feels simultaneously like it was yesterday and 100 years ago. Weren’t we just here eyeing polls that told us Donald Trump was certain to lose? As we look to the election and what the next four years could bring with our vote for president, it’s...
Letter to the editor: Ensuring ballots are counted
Voters in Pennsylvania need to know that if they received a mail-in ballot, they can trade that mail-in ballot at their polling location to vote on Election Day. They need to bring the ballot and the two envelopes that came with it. Democratic voters should be doing that to ensure...
Letter to the editor: Vote for those who support life, freedom
Since its beginning, the moral standard of American society has been based on faith and family values, and that all people have certain unalienable rights endowed by our creator (per our Declaration of Independence). George Washington stated that “Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.” Other founders...
Editorial: Is Pennsylvania prepared for Election Day?
Pennsylvania is ready for the election on Tuesday. That’s what the state government says. “Pennsylvania is prepared. We are protected for this election and voters can cast their ballots with confidence. We are going to have a fair election where everyone can vote without interference,” Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday....
Letter to the editor: David and Goliath updated
Growing up in an evangelical church, I recall “Sunday School,” where kindly parents taught us young teenagers the story of David fighting the fierce Philistine, Goliath. With only a sling in his hand, but also deep faith in God, David defeated a seasoned army champion! Later, I learned that the...
Letter to the editor: The Biden email scandal
Woodward and Bernstein set the journalistic standard in the Watergate scandal. A third-rate burglary set into motion a chain of events that led to the resignation of a president. There was Deep Throat. Follow the money. All the president’s men. The Washington Post set the standard for journalistic excellence in...
Letter to the editor: Country has changed
The Democrats elected President Trump and they haven’t learned one thing from their blundering performance under President Obama. Instead, have doubled-down on that eight-year folly. Sobering up from their defeat would have taught them that their shrillness in insisting on control, silence, obedience and conformism is not working for them....
Letter to the editor: USPS committed to delivering election mail
With a record number of people across the country voting by mail, the U.S. Postal Service is actively working to ensure the secure, timely delivery of the nation’s election mail. This is our No. 1 priority, and we value our partnership with state and local election boards to ensure a...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: We can have an honest, if not perfect, election
In spite of the dust that is being kicked up, this Tuesday’s presidential election will produce an honest count. If each of us does our part by voting and then showing patience with the count, our election officials will deliver a professional, honest and transparent result that we can all...
Editorial: IUP’s job slashing is scary move
It’s that spooky time of year when things that chill the soul wait around every corner. Vampires. Zombies. Blood and gore and skeletons. But the scariest frights are the ones you didn’t expect. On Friday, what jumped out of the dark at 81 faculty members of Indiana University of Pennsylvania...
Sounding off: Where are the adults?
Peter, Paul & Mary had a hit with “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” in 1962. Today a new hit song might be “Where Have All the Adults Gone?” I have exercised my right to vote since I was 18. I knew the date of the election and voted, and...
Letter to the editor: End leaders’ pay to end closures
I believe the current partial and/or complete closings of businesses, schools and sporting events would come to an abrupt halt (and prevent future closings) if the salary and per diem of the governor, lieutenant governor, state legislators, and city mayors and council members were terminated for the duration of the...
Letter to the editor: Garrity best pick for treasurer
Elections are about choices, and nowhere is there a bigger contrast than in the Pennsylvania state treasurer race. Our current treasurer, Joe Torsella, is a member of the Philadelphia elite. I don’t believe he has any idea how middle-class, hard-working Pennsylvania families in the state struggle to make ends meet....
Letter to the editor: Power is Democrats’ goal
Joe Biden asks if he looks like a “radical socialist.” I say no, but, he does look much like a socialistic Trojan horse ready for the glue factory. Letter-writers can present believable cases, left or right. What I’ve concluded, though, is a group has taken over the Democratic Party to...
Nancy Patton Mills: Biden has a better plan for America
Families in Southwestern Pennsylvania and across the country are faced with crisis after crisis. There’s a public health crisis — covid-19 has taken the lives of more than 8,700 of our fellow Pennsylvanians, and is only getting worse. There’s an economic crisis — one that predates the pandemic, but has...
Letter to the editor: Stopping ‘Trump Republicans’
President Trump has divided this country like no other president in history. In my opinion, his inept response to covid-19 has resulted in 228,000 dead Americans and almost 9 million sick. I believe that with four more years of this president, our republic will be in shambles, and this is...
Letter to the editor: Looking at Trump’s accomplishments
Let’s talk lies. President Trump is accused of repeating 20,000 lies. I can summarize all of his lies into one: Mine is bigger than yours. The only people who care are immature adolescents. That brings me to all of the letters attacking Trump. They all read the same. He is...
John Stossel: Best parts of life don’t involve politics
Worried about Tuesday? Remember: The most important parts of life happen outside politics. Love, friendship, family, raising children, building businesses, worship, charity work — that is the stuff of life! Politicians get in the way of those things. But despite the efforts of power-hungry Republicans and Democrats, life gets better....
Keith Rothfus: Trump has earned your vote
From the day President Trump announced his candidacy, Pennsylvania has been on the forefront of his mind. The forgotten men and women of Pennsylvania have been forgotten no more under Trump’s leadership. From leading an unprecedented response to covid-19, to better trade deals like the USMCA for Pennsylvania workers, to...
Walter Williams: Is ‘getting’ Trump worth it?
President Donald Trump is not the first president to be hated by a large segment of the American population. In more recent times, there was considerable hate for President Ronald Reagan. Even though the Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill and Reagan were polar opposites in their politics, they...
