Opinion category, Page 267
Editorial: South Side violence closes more doors as little changes
On Monday, Carson City Saloon announced it was closing its doors — at least temporarily. A sports bar on the South Side doesn’t do that lightly. It isn’t a new business. It has been around for 17 years. It’s baseball season. But right now crime season is taking the spotlight....
Sen. Ryan Aument: Young people need opportunity, not student loan forgiveness
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness proposal on June 30. While this ruling is a win for taxpayers, there are still millions of Americans with trillions of dollars in outstanding student loans who now need to pay back that debt. I applaud the high court’s...
Thomas Zeitzoff: ‘Idiots,’ ‘criminals’ and ‘scum’ — nasty politics highest in U.S. since the Civil War
Joe Biden, “together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.” This is what Donald Trump said to his supporters hours after pleading not guilty in federal court in June 2023 to his mishandling of classified documents. The indictment of a former president...
Letter to the editor: Proud people, what are you proud of?
Regarding the letter “We should all be proud of who we are” (June 18, TribLIVE): OK, Proud people, is this what you are so proud of? Chanting in your parades, “We’re here! We’re queer! We’re coming for your children!” Or perhaps riding stark naked on bicycles. Letting it all hang...
Letter to the editor: Spotlighting Pa.’s lack of oversight of higher education
You are to be commended for publishing the long-overdue article on the declining enrollment of related Pennsylvania institutions’ branches — particularly PSU/Pitt (“Pitt, Penn State branch campuses bleeding enrollment; decline expected to continue,” June 25, TribLIVE). The six Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools were excoriated last year for...
Editorial: Pa. budget standoff drags on
The worst kind of budget impasse is when both sides have a point. It’s easy to say what should happen when there is a clear right and clear wrong — even if it is only about perspective. If something is as simple as raising taxes versus lowering them, most people...
Letter to the editor: Social justice vs. actual justice
The political left has bastardized the English language to promote its radical ideology. Words and phrases are used in ways that can never be fully comprehended, then repeated ad nauseam by politicians and media types. Terms like “racial justice,” “social justice,” “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion” and a host of others spill...
Tom Purcell: The American Dream is a life without debt
I dream of the day I will be 100% debt free! I took on debt fairly early in life, when I borrowed money to help cover the cost of my Penn State degree. That turned out to be a terrific investment — I got a good communications job at a...
Letter to the editor: How will cocaine be blamed on Trump?
President Biden’s Secret Service found cocaine in the White House. Hunter Biden is an admitted drug user who is said to be living in the White House. I have just one question: If this is true, how are they going to blame it on Trump? Jeanne Shields North Huntingdon...
Letter to the editor: Economic class and human worth
We live in a sad world when people start basing the value of human life on economic class. Community Engagement Editor Lori Falce seemed to do just that in her column “Do we owe Titanic sub billionaires empathy?” (June 30, TribLIVE). Shameful. Whether one is a fleeing refugee in a...
Letter to the editor: Mainstream media ignoring Biden family issues
The Tribune-Review relies mainly on the Associated Press for national news. Accordingly, Trib readers using the Trib as their main news source likely believe that Hunter Biden’s tax and gun problems are over. The article “Hunter Biden plea agreement in tax, gun case set for July court date” (June 21,...
Editorial: Abandoned malls are monuments to blight
There is something about ruins. People love to look back on what was and imagine it in all its glory. That can mean historical sites of the ancient world such as the Colosseum in Rome or the Parthenon in Athens. It can mean relics of American history such as the...
Letter to the editor: ‘Era of Lunacy’ will end
I predict that someday, somehow, our nation will recover from its current state of social unrest, and future historians will look back at our current era and define it as “The Era of Lunacy.” They will wonder how a society that evolved over thousands of years could suddenly believe that...
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 10
Editorial cartoons for the week of July 10....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 10
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of July 10....
Brenton Smith: We don’t have 10 years to think about our Social Security insolvency problem
It has been nearly 40 years since Congress was able to find common ground on the future of Social Security. While millions of people depend on the system as a lifeline, politicians have done little to slow the erosion of the program’s finances. If the projections in the latest trustees...
Stephen Mihm: How the Titanic wreck became a money-making scheme
The ill-fated passengers who died trying to visit the wreck of the Titanic paid an extraordinary price for the privilege: $250,000 each. This is hardly surprising, given how many people view the story of the doomed ship with intense, if morbid, fascination. A profitable industry now caters to this obsession,...
Letter to the editor: Shapiro just another figurehead
Dear Mr. Shapiro, For about five minutes there, I was so astonished, and proud, that it looked like we had a leader who was a leader for “all” the people. Sadly, you reveal who you really are after all by vetoing school choice. Just another special interest figurehead. You should...
Letter to the editor: Higher education, health care not ‘rights’
Regarding government-paid higher education and health care: First, we need to understand that neither of these programs are rights. Our rights were created to ensure our freedoms solely. These things are the individual’s responsibility to ensure their future, based on their ambition and ability only. Second, as we have seen...
Letter to the editor: Congress must keep up fight against HIV/AIDS
Congress has an opportunity right now to move us closer to the day we end HIV/AIDS by supporting one of the most effective disease-fighting tools in our global health arsenal. I went to Washington, D.C., to make sure it happens. As a volunteer with the ONE Campaign, I went to...
Editorial: Releasing pythons slithers around responsibility
It should go without saying that, if you have a pet, you keep your pet. Keep it fed. Keep it healthy. Keep it under control, whether in the yard, in the house or in its cage. Too bad a Ross man didn’t do that. Police say the unidentified individual is...
Letter to the editor: ‘Every Bottle Back’ aids Pittsburgh recycling
Pittsburgh has long been a hub for innovation and technology. What started as the advancement of Pittsburgh’s manufacturing industry in the 1970s and ’80s has evolved today into a world-class research and development sector. At the Pennsylvania Beverage Association, it is our goal to catch Pittsburgh’s recycling program up with...
Letter to the editor: Our rights are being eroded
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are defined as our “Bill of Rights.” They are defined as “inalienable rights.” All citizens need to read these. I am concerned with an erosion of these rights at the hands of our ruling elite. I don’t view this as a political party-specific...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Ethics hypocrisy of the Supreme Court
If you don’t have the stomach for more hypocrisy in government and politics these days, stay away from the plight of New Jersey Superior Court Judge Gary N. Wilcox versus the impunity with which United States Supreme Court justices operate. Wilcox is facing judicial ethics charges for posting 40 TikTok...
Sheldon H. Jacobson: Should the TSA end the 3-ounce liquid restriction?
The plot to bring liquid explosives onto flights from London to the U.S. and Canada in 2006 prompted the Transportation Security Administration to institute a limitation of 3 ounces on all liquid and gel containers placed in carry-on bags. This led to the well-known and much maligned 3-1-1 rule for...
