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Letters To The Editor

People of Fayette County need to wake up

I had the opportunity to attend the Fayette County Commissioners agenda meeting last Tuesday. This does not happen often with my work schedule as these meetings are always scheduled for 10 am during the week. I find it interesting that one commissioner has a difficult time with punctuality; in ...

Wolf needs to raise minimum wage gradually

This governor isn't who I would have voted for no matter who he was running against. Even if it was Howdy Doody. He wants to make up for a lack of business tax money by raising every individuals taxes. Isn't that just like a Democrat. Instead of bringing in new businesses, he wants the minimum ...

One of the latest mass gun murders which have come to define our country occurred in Aurora, Illinois, near Chicago: a familiar scenario in which a man who was discharged by his employer chose to slaughter everyone from the company that he could before being gunned down by heroic police ...

Our climate problems continue

The world produces more food than ever, yet 800 million of mother earth’s people go hungry while 2 billion others are obese or overweight. This according to Sam Kass in last week’s Newsweek magazine. Diets are rich in calories but deficient in nutrients. The result is a host of health ...

Recent newspaper articles reveal constant political partisanship among our local legislators dealing with the Governor Wolf's proposals on minimum wage and stricter background checks. They all agree with the Republican agenda of the Trump administration.Minimum wage hasn't increased for many ...

When someone has an emergency and calls 911, they need help. It could be a request for police, fire or EMS. Over the years, when the call is for a fire department have we taken their response for granted?The state of Pennsylvania at one time had a sufficient number of volunteer firemen that ...