Letters to Editor

Other Voices: Our one last chance
Letters to Editor, Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 29, 2024
I believe in this election God is giving us one last chance to come to him before more judgments fall on us. Throughout the Bible, God has used a faul...
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Other Voices: Think long and hard
Letters to Editor, Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 20, 2024
Is it too late for people to change their minds about who to vote for? I want to believe that the voting public does not mindlessly follow the person ...
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Other Voices: How democracies die
Letters to Editor, Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 07, 2024
Are we witnessing, and participating in, the real-time death of our democracy with eyes wide shut? Most of the democracies that have died since the en...
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Other Voices: How did this happen?
Letters to Editor, Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 01, 2023
How did this happen? Those of us who are paying attention find ourselves in a country we no longer recognize. How did unelected bureaucrats get the po...
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Other Voices: Democracy on the line
Letters to Editor, Opinion
Aug 31, 2020
Democracy on the line I got to thinking about this upcoming presidential election and wondered whether the last 3 1/2 years have been a ruse, a way to...
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Those parking meters
Letters to Editor
Jul 21, 2020
On June 20 a friend and I went to the matinee at Bradford Cinema. We parked in the handicap spot in front of the theater and had a placard displayed. ...
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Amend fireworks law
Letters to Editor
Jul 20, 2020
It is absurd that our Pennsylvania fireworks law (Act 43 of 2017) is deficient in not setting fireworks-launch distance restrictions from other proper...
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What to run on?
Letters to Editor
Jul 16, 2020
Regarding the recent column by Ann McFeatters, “What Will Trump Run On?” and recognizing that an in-depth response would be way over the allowed wordi...
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Letter: We’re being torn apart
Letters to Editor
Jun 19, 2020
All lives matter. That should be what all of the demonstrators and protestors should be fighting for. There should not be just black or white. We were...
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We can’t live in fear
Letters to Editor, Opinion
May 29, 2020
This pandemic has caused many disruptions in everyone’s lives. Yes, scary and unpredictable. It is going on three months of shutdown in our country an...
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Trump has failed us
Letters to Editor
May 21, 2020
This has been the most damaging lie our president has told and thousands are dying. President Trump was indeed warned about COVID-19 and chose to igno...
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A parallel pandemic?
Letters to Editor
May 21, 2020
Protests, anti-science editorials, viral conspiracy theories, cartoons and serial tweeting will not change the “will” of the COVID-19 virus. We face a...
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They’re not heroes
Letters to Editor
May 19, 2020
There have been many letters to the editor recently advocating opening up the economy, no matter what the cost. These are one-sided arguments that pay...
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The right thing to do
Letters to Editor, Opinion
May 14, 2020
A person can have COVID-19, show no symptoms and still infect others. Masks don’t protect the wearer against COVID-19; they stop wearers from spreadin...
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The science is real
Letters to Editor, Opinion
May 13, 2020
In Rich Lowry’s column in the May 2 edition of The Era, he concludes by writing that we as a free people will have to decide the important questions r...
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Don’t protest, vote
Letters to Editor
May 08, 2020
It is sad to see what is happening in America. Have the people forgotten the sacrifices made by past generations? Have they taken freedom for granted?...
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Honoring JCC’s nursing grads
Letters to Editor
May 07, 2020
With National Nurses Week celebrated May 6-12 this year, there is no better time to honor and thank those nurses on the front lines protecting our hea...
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Wear a face mask
Letters to Editor
May 01, 2020
After reading the editorial in the April 28 edition of The Era from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, titled “Conflicting messages on masks,” I had to comm...
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Rural Pa. can open
Letters to Editor
Apr 30, 2020
State Sen. Joe Scarnati is right. Some counties like McKean, Warren, Forest, Elk and Potter, which have single-digit or low double-digit cases of coro...
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Defend 2nd Amendment
Letters to Editor
Apr 22, 2020
Remember the Second Amendment when it is time to vote. There are factions in and out of our government that want to take it away from us. If they are ...
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