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Letter to the editor: Shout-outs to Greenburg merchants
I want to give a shout-out to Bob at Lapels in downtown Greensburg. Our grandson came into town for a job interview. At the last minute he realized he had forgotten his tie. As we only have bow ties in the house, I went to Lapels in a panic. Bob...
Letter to the editor: GOP started obstructionism
I would like to enlighten letter-writer Ron Raymond (“Obama vs. Trump”) and refresh his memory. President Obama wasn’t ineffective by choice. He was obstructed from passing laws by Republicans, namely Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham. They even refused to let Obama follow his presidential duties to nominate a Supreme...
Tom Purcell: Our national debt is out of control, but nobody seems to care
Breaking news: Federal spending is out of control. I’m kidding, of course. Spending, deficits and debt have been out of control for years. It’s just that last week we broke yet another record. For the first time in our nation’s history, federal spending topped $3 trillion in a fiscal year’s...
Editorial: Defusing hate with healing
There’s nothing like a big ball of flame to show that there is more to stopping mass murder than gun control. While some people are pulling back and forth on the tug-of-war rope that is trying to tie up guns and bullets in fingerprint-locked safes, can someone please find a...
Letter to the editor: Tariff walls to trade
In his column “Danger of dabbling in protectionism” (May 11, TribLIVE), George Will writes that “U.S. industrial capacity has never been larger … .” Capacity is one thing; the utilization rate of that capacity is another thing. Take Allegheny Ludlum’s new plant. I don’t believe it has ever run at...
Letter to the editor: Trump should thank Michael Avenatti
In a presidential race that began partially as a publicity stunt, Trump quickly learned that bare-knuckles political hucksterism would work. He understood that the people running much of the national press, and their dimwitted clients, the modern leftist Democratic Party, were more dysfunctional than he could ever be, and would...
Letter to the editor: Men 18-26 must register for Selective Service
Registration in the United States Selective Service System is a critical element of our national security and defense, it’s important to communities and it is critical to all young men living in the country. Simply put, registration is a law, a civic duty, and assures that men can apply for...
Editorial cartoons for the week of June 17
Editorial cartoons for the week of June 17....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of June 17
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Robert Torres: Older Pennsylvanians need more than minimum wage
It’s personal to us at the Department of Aging that more than 18% of workers earning less than $15 per hour are age 55 or older. That means 374,000 older adults are not making a living wage as they try to afford food and housing, on top of those facing...
Editorial: Communities rally for lightning victims’ families
When lightning strikes. So often, that means something powerful. Something awesome. Something that comes out of the blue and dazzles with something you never realized before. When lightning strikes, it can mean good fortune. It can mean a great idea. It can mean a stunning opportunity. And lightning striking twice?...
Letter to the editor: Killers & the unborn
A recent Sunday edition of the Trib had a headline stating, “Push to repeal death penalty emerges in Pa.” For a split second I thought there might be an effort to outlaw abortion and save the unborn children from the death penalty. However, when I returned to reality, I saw...
Letter to the editor: Woman’s right to choose ends when life begins
Regarding Jim Harger’s (“Women’s health choices should be their own,” June 5, TribLIVE) and Robin Hammonds’ (“With abortion outlawed, who will take care of the babies?” May 18, TribLIVE) letters on abortion: Religion aside, I would say that if you agree that my right to swing my arm ends where...
Letter to the editor: PAT buses not safe for school children
The decision of Pittsburgh Public Schools to eliminate school buses for many Environmental Charter Middle School students is unacceptable. Allowing children as young as 12 to ride a PAT bus with the general public is extremely unsafe. During the year, children will be getting on and off the bus in...
S.E. Cupp: Spying, traitors & Donald Trump
Just put it on the towering pile of scripts even the writers of “Veep” would have rejected as too absurd. But it’s shockingly, appallingly, real. See if you can follow this. On Tuesday morning, the president’s national security adviser, John Bolton, announces North Korea is one of five countries he...
Antony Davies & James R. Harrigan: View political promises with healthy skepticism
Fewer than 18 months stand between us and the next presidential election, and politicians are tripping over each other to offer voters more “free” things, including everything from health care to college to a guaranteed basic income. But voters should be fostering a healthy sense of skepticism. If there is...
George Will: To beat Trump, Democrats must practice a politics of modesty
WASHINGTON “It is a great advantage to a president,” said the 30th of them, “and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.” Or, Calvin Coolidge would say today, a great woman. While today’s incumbent advertises himself as an “extremely...
Joel Pfeffer: Immigration must shift to employment model
In a recent Rose Garden speech, President Trump outlined his administration’s immigration plan. Unfortunately, it offered little in the way of specifics, bullet points for those interested or written guidance for lawmakers. This creates a challenge for those concerned about legally admitting new immigrants into America. America’s current immigration structure...
Eric Barron: Federally funded university research transforms lives
For decades, the federal government has turned to universities to undertake research in a wide array of fields, including health care, energy and national security. Such investment is crucial for encouraging basic scientific research — the bedrock for the applied research that results in the applications and inventions that have...
Sounding off: Count all people in census
Was not the Founding Fathers’ intent evidenced, concerning census counts to determine state populations and therefore legislative representation, by, of all things, the three-fifths rule? That rule stated that “all other persons”/slaves, other than free inhabitants, were to be counted in population counts as three-fifths of a person to determine...
Letter to the editor: Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month
Everyone who has a brain is at risk to develop Alzheimer’s, a disease that is often misunderstood. Many people do not know that Alzheimer’s is fatal, killing more people than breast and prostate cancer combined, or that Alzheimer’s is not normal aging but a progressive brain disease that affects more...
Letter to the editor: Take your own bags to store
Thank you for the article highlighting issues, including costs, around single-use plastic bags versus paper bags (“Paper bag sales on the rise as plastic bans go into effect,”). A win-win solution is to bring your own bags. It is a small step everyone can choose to take to make a...
Letter to the editor: ‘Dangerous & Crazy’ party could bring all together
Let me get this straight. The left thinks President Trump is dangerous and crazy, the right thinks Pelosi and Schumer are dangerous and crazy, both groups think Bernie is dangerous and crazy, and everybody thinks Ocasio-Cortez is dangerous and crazy. Put this all together and it proves that Americans are...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: There are fathers everywhere
I am nearly twice as old as my father was when he died. The young man had come home from war broken, but hopeful enough to get married and have a son. He lived like he was going to grow old. His death was a tragedy, but it was the...
Walter Williams: How government creates conflict
We are living in a time of increasing domestic tension. Some of it stems from the presidency of Donald Trump. Another part of it is various advocacy groups on both sides of the political spectrum demanding one cause or another. But nearly totally ignored is how growing government control over...
