Opinion category, Page 407
Tom Hogan: Cities must respond to dirt-bike crisis
In recent years, big cities have been plagued by roving packs of young men on dirt bikes and ATVs who ignore traffic laws and terrorize the streets. Residents are asking how to fix this problem — but they are asking the wrong question. They need to ask, rather, if controlling...
Bruce Cooper and Harry Hochheiser: For Earth Day, put a price on carbon
Last year, during his Earth Day Summit, President Joe Biden said, “The United States sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gasses in half by the end of this decade. That’s where we’re headed as a nation, and that’s what we can do, if we take action to build...
Letter to the editor: Democrats’ answer to high gas prices
To all you fine working-class folks having trouble with the skyrocketing price of gas, your “compassionate” Democrats have a friendly message for you: Quit whining and buy a $60,000 electric car already. Jeff Novotny Mesa, Ariz....
Letter to the editor: North Park no place for speeders
I ride Lake Shore Drive in North Park almost daily from Ingomar Road to the boathouse and back. I do two trips. It’s a great place to ride, well maintained, and even the restrooms and portable toilets are meticulously clean. The problem is traffic exceeding the speed limit, even with...
Letter to the editor: Presidential guessing game
Who doesn’t love guessing games? So, guess which silver-tongued orator said this: “Inflation doesn’t exist. Inflation is temporary. Inflation is transitory. Inflation will be going away. Inflation is Trump’s fault. Inflation is the greedy oil companies’ fault. Inflation is Putin’s fault.” Stumped? OK, maybe this will help. Who has criticized...
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland’s public housing needs attention
“Home is where the heart is.” “There is no place like home.” “Home sweet home.” There are hundreds of quotes and song lyrics expressing the importance of “home.” However, if my home was in one of Westmoreland County’s public housing buildings, I don’t think I would feel “there is no...
Lori Falce: We could all be these parents
Where are the parents? Since Sunday, when Jaiden Za’mar Brown of North Braddock and Mathew Steffy-Ross of Pitcairn were shot and killed at a party on Pittsburgh’s North Side, I have heard that phrase repeated several times. I feel it each time like a punch I see coming and have...
Letter to the editor: Nurses deserve better
Think about this: You take a job as a nurse and you work one day afternoon shift, then the next day daylight shift, then the third day you work the midnight shift (not the same 8-hour shift all week). Either you have little time to rest between shifts or twice...
Letter to the editor: We must learn from history so we’re not doomed
Regarding the article “Small-dollar donors fuel Trump’s $19M haul in first quarter” (April 17): The Republicans’ only message lately seems to be looking in the rearview mirror. For decades, they have been trying to snatch away our rights (voting, civil, human, environmental) with nothing to replace them. They seem to...
Laurels & lances: Football and fumbles
Laurel: To the best return in football. After two seasons away, the Pittsburgh Steelers gave fans a return to normalcy with an announcement Wednesday. The team plans to return to its longtime training camp location at Saint Vincent College near Latrobe. It was welcome news for the community, too. For...
Letter to the editor: Philadelphia masks an election ploy?
Why is Philadelphia requiring masks again when other cities aren’t? The midterms are coming up and without Philly, the state could turn conservative. They know their liberal base will stay home because a lot are not vaccinated and fear the virus and the mask will make them feel safe to...
Letter to the editor: Conservatives have reason to be skeptical of media
The print edition headline on Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column “No more common national identity” is correct, but his conclusions are wrong. Not one for introspection, he of course blames conservatives. Apparently with a straight face he states, “The average Republican trusts almost no mainstream source of information.“ With mainstream media...
Editorial: Earth Day is no time for politics
Happy Earth Day to you — all of you. On Friday, we will celebrate the annual event that brings attention to the planet and the way people impact it. It’s a holiday born on April 22, 1970. For more than 50 years, the day has served to spotlight the many...
Letter to the editor: PSEA serves its members, students well
I write to voice my strong support for my union, the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA). I was troubled to read Joseph P. Ferguson’s letter criticizing PSEA (“PSEA leadership should be challenged,” April 2) based on vague claims that the union wasn’t aggressive enough. The PSEA I know has always...
Letter to the editor: Americans gullible when it comes to Bidens
It’s amazing how gullible the American people are, especially when it comes to believing everything that a group pretending to be the Democratic Party says and does. These people seem to be the new means to end this country as we know it, led by “the big man.” Oh, don’t...
John Stossel: Media, politicians are Uber clueless
The media’s ignorance about basic economics is galling. I expect it from politicians. I expect it from The New York Times. But it’s sad to see in the New York Post, my town’s rare alternative to Democrat media. Recently, the tabloid freaked out over higher prices imposed by ride-share companies....
David Callahan, Robert Brundrett and Charlie Burd: Celebrating Appalachia’s green transformation
Our fellow Americans may not consider the so-called “Rust Belt” to be the epicenter of our nation’s green economy. But the discovery of our region’s abundant and clean natural gas resources over the last 15 years has transformed Appalachia into a technology hub and innovation-driven economy at the forefront of...
Jonah Goldberg: Ukraine, Russia and the moral clarity of ‘good guys’ vs. ‘bad guys’
One of the silver linings of the very large dark cloud of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the clarity it provides. This is, broadly speaking a contest between good guys and bad guys. A lot of people who fancy themselves foreign policy realists roll their eyes at talk about...
Ashley Priore: Pitt chancellor Gallagher leaves lasting impression
Every weekday morning around 7 a.m., as I waited for my bus to get to school, I would see a man on a walk down Fifth Avenue heading toward the Cathedral of Learning in Oakland. We shared our daily hellos (and maybe a joke or two about the weather). I...
Letter to the editor: Why America has lost its identity
In response to Leonard Pitts Jr.’s column “Americans have lost the willingness, ability to share a common national identity” (April 12, TribLIVE): I would argue that Pitts is your typical Democrat using projection to blame the Republicans for what the Democrats actually do. That is called projection, but I agree...
Letter to the editor: Fighting Legionnaires’ disease
Westmoreland County has had its share of scares with Legionnaires’ disease, a deadly but highly preventable respiratory illness that’s spread by breathing mist contaminated with the bacteria. Concern about the disease has been magnified by covid-19, which forced many public buildings to shut down. When buildings have low or no...
Editorial: As mask mandates lift, we should respect others’ decisions
A federal judge in Florida issued a ruling against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s mask mandate early in the day. By evening, the Transportation Security Administration was announcing it no longer would enforce the requirement. That drops one of the final demands of the federal government, leaving any...
Letter to the editor: Doom, gloom and Democrats
Dave Majernik writes a deceptive letter, painting a gloomy picture for the future based on a false premise that “radical policies” are calling for banning gasoline cars and oil drilling (“Radical fuel policies would bankrupt us”). As a strong defender of the environment, I would never advocate that. At the...
Letter to the editor: Censorship threatens intellectual freedom
April is National Library Month. Here are some important points to ponder as we celebrate the intellectual freedom that libraries provide. Intellectual freedom, the very basis for our democracy, supports the right of every individual to both seek and access information from varied points of view without restriction. Censorship, the...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Republican Party is a clear and present danger
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin Here’s what we’re not going to do here. We are not going to indulge the lazy rationalizations, false equivalence, cheap gaslighting and other forms of rhetorical chicanery that have become...
