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Letters To The Editor

Ego can get on your nerves

There are people who have and those who do not. I have compassion for the poorly unfortunates scraping the bottom of the barrel to get a little of something and be thrilled just for a moment of their contemptible life. I am riding that wagon myself. It 鈥渟eems鈥 as though even through prayer ...

I have lived in Uniontown on Kerr Street or 33 years. When I first moved here with my family, this was a nice street. But as the older people died and their children didn鈥檛 want the homes, they were sold and became rental properties.Over the years, these landlords just want to collect rent ...

Trump stokes hatred with racist remarks

With one statement, the president has managed to broadcast to the world his stunning ignorance and racism.In directing that Democratic U. S. Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley go back to their countries to fix what he feels is broken there, he has rendered these ...

Americans don’t belong here?

This past weekend President Trump sent a series of tweets urging four liberal Democratic congresswomen to go back to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came." All four women are non-white (though three were born in the U.S.), so on the left there was righteous indignation ...

Local stages vital to area tourism

During an August 2012 visit to New York City, I attended the Tony Award-winning musical 鈥淣ewsies鈥 at the Nederlander Theatre.On Friday (July 12), myself and five other family members attended the first of three performances of 鈥淣ewsies鈥 as part of its summer program at the State Theatre ...

Prayer in schools not democratic

Am writing in response to Reverend William "Ed" Nicholson's commentary regarding school prayer and Bible reading in the July 3 edition. I consider myself, first and foremost, a Christian. I was born and raised in the Roman Catholic Church. I was taught for twelve years by nuns. I believe that ...