Dr. Kim-Lien Nguyen: Subsidizing insurance just props up dysfunction. Empower consumers instead
Congress ended its impasse to reopen the government, but the Democrats’ reason for the shutdown remains unresolved: the renewal of expiring subsidies for insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Republicans offered an olive branch to end the standoff by proposing to make payments into Americans’ health savings accounts...
Jason Lias: With respect, Deluzio’s message crossed a line
Rep. Chris Deluzio, let me start with something simple and sincere: Thank you for your service to this country. Your time in uniform matters, and nobody can take that away from you. Americans respect that — I respect that. But respect for your service does not mean giving you a...
Letter to the editor: Russia’s withdrawal the way to end war
I have an idea for the end of the Russia-Ukraine war. Why don’t the Russians withdraw back into Russia, and the war will be over? They invaded and should withdraw, and it is over! Lou Gregovits North Huntingdon...
Letter to the editor: Caregivers are professionals
The term professional (from Wikipedia) “describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of that profession with particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.” You are considered a professional when you are paid for specialized skills, have knowledge in your profession and...
Editorial: Canada measles outbreak shows that vigilance must not slip
The next outbreak of serious disease is merely “a plane ride away,” public health officials have long warned. The current crop of measles cases in Canada proves that point. A traveler infected with measles visited a New Brunswick community with a low vaccination rate, sparking a national outbreak in 2024....
Letter to the editor: Pittsburgh, the most ‘givable’ city
With the holidays upon us, it’s that time of year where the sharing and caring seem to come out of our bodies and warm the heart. There must be something to the saying, “Home is where the heart is.” Seeing the people of Pittsburgh rallying by giving to local food...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Dec. 1
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Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Dec. 1
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Letter to the editor: Am I no longer a professional?
I have been a nurse since 1982 when I graduated from Penn State. I worked nine years as a critical care nurse. I worked very hard at obtaining new skills, obtaining credentialing as a critical care registered nurse (CCRN), all while going to graduate school to gain additional knowledge and...
Editorial: School funding, cyber charter oversight are state-created problems
Education is built on the basics. ABCs become words, then sentences, then books. Counting becomes adding, then long division, then algebra. If you don’t get a good grounding at the primary level, everything gets harder until the learning process falls apart with the advanced material. That might be the issue...
Letter to the editor: People deserve easier access to lifesaving screenings
As a registered infant nurse, I see how carefully parents protect their children’s health, but I also see how often they overlook their own care, including preventative screenings. Colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, despite the fact that it is also one of...
Joeph Sabino Mistick: News of the day in an upside-down world
In the Nov. 20 New York Times, the top three “Most Read Stories” carried the following headlines: “In Outburst, Trump Accuses Democrats of Sedition Over Video to Military”; “Trump Calling Reporter ‘Piggy’ Was ‘Frankness,’ White House Says”; “Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents.” If...
Peter Morici: Prosperity without workers — the AI paradox shaping Trump’s economy
The economy is growing, but jobs are harder to find. Second-quarter growth in gross domestic product was 3.8%, thanks to robust investment in information processing equipment, software, and research and development, mostly to build out artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal survey of private prognosticators pegged third-quarter growth at 2.5%,...
Sophia Greene and Dr. Claudia Fernandes: A broken pipeline — costing us our next generation of scientists
Science has always relied on young innovators to drive progress. In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, still PhD students, founded Google. More recently, in 2020 and 2021, Kizzmekia Corbett, then a senior research fellow at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Vaccine Research Center, led a team of scientists...
Carl P. Leubsdorf: Republicans hope the Supreme Court will help them hold the House
Perhaps it was inevitable. But it seems increasingly likely that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, will play a major role in determining which party wins the U.S. House next year. That possibility increased when Justice Samuel Alito paused a lower court’s rejection of the effort by Texas...
Abby McCloskey: The gender wars are heating up — on the right
More than half a million women left the labor force this year. Many are mothers with young children. It’s being called the next she-cession. This may be a good thing to the extent it reflects women’s preferences, such as wanting to spend more time with their families or it represents...
Letter to the editor: Give peace a chance
To all people of the world, regardless of color or national origin or positions we might hold: We are in turmoil in the whole world. We are looking for answers to problems in the wrong places. We all have a part of the answer within us: our hearts and minds....
Letter to the editor: Deluzio, other Dems’ actions inappropriate
I think the article “Deluzio, other Dems tell troops to refuse illegal orders, Trump labels them as ‘traitors’ ”
(Nov. 20, TribLive) was a blatant political attack on the Trump administration because the Democrats could not identify any illegal orders issued to current military forces. However, the Dems may have...
Editorial: Exploratory studies are smart, but crushing college debt isn’t
What do you want to be when you grow up? The older students get, the more complicated the answer can become. By the time they graduate high school, plenty of young adults don’t have a grasp on what their next act might be. Many pick a college but not a...
Letter to the editor: Natural gas benefiting our communities
Butler County is once again reaping the benefits of the commonwealth’s natural gas impact fee. This unique Pennsylvania fee — which is essentially just another tax on the industry — provides funding every year to the state’s county and municipal governments. This year, Butler County received the seventh highest distribution...
Dr. Nina Stachenfeld: So DEI doesn’t work. OK, what would be better?
It is no secret that diversity, equity and inclusion programs are under attack in our country. They have been blamed for undermining free speech, meritocracy and America itself. The University of Virginia is the latest to settle with the government and walk away from its DEI initiatives rather than defend...
Allison Schrager: The American middle class is shrinking, and that’s OK
The good news is that Americans have never been richer. The bad news is that most of them don’t feel like it. There has been tremendous growth in income and wealth in the U.S. in the last half-century, even for poorer and middle-class households. But because of the nature of...
Jonah Goldberg: Leaked ‘wish list’ for peace in Russia-Ukraine war is hardly America First
Last week, a 28-point “peace plan” for the Russia-Ukraine war surfaced. It was apparently fleshed out in Miami over cocktails by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Witkoff’s Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev. Many critics immediately derided it as a “Russian wish-list.” That was before we...
Letter to the editor: Trump the greatest or the worst?
People actually praise and love President Trump. His circus goes on. Three more years of this sick comedy from Republicans. What are the Republican politicians afraid of? Don’t they care about our national debt and the interest to service it? No plan? Our children will suffer. No health care for...
Letter to the editor: Military taught to not follow illegal orders
This letter is directed to the writer of the letter ”Democrats’ video urging insurrection is treasonous” (Nov. 21, TribLive). You, sir, have no understanding of history or the Universal Code of Military Justice. Following World War II, Nazis accused of killing innocent civilians were brought before the Nuremberg Court. The...
