Gun safety shouldn’t be a partisan issue Many Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers seem to care more about appeasing a minority of their base than protecting their own constituents’ lives. Republicans have persistently blocked and obstructed any legislation or even debate on gun safety bills in Harrisburg. Afraid of a small but
William Penn, the founder of our commonwealth, was an advocate for religious and personal freedom for all people who came to live here. As opposed to Doug Mastriano, the current Republican candidate for governor, whose inflammatory comments have appeared in newspapers all over the state, including his promise to overturn
Bad guys will always get guns In response to recent letters about sensible gun control: Background checks are a must and registration is good, but I’d like to think these writers would agree the evil element can bypass background checks and certainly won’t register illegal firearms. So where does that
In his letter “Hit piece on Mastriano yellow journalism” (June 15, TribLIVE), Joe Schmidt said Doug Mastriano, the state’s Republican candidate for governor, is being unfairly attacked by the media because he’s a Christian nationalist. Christian nationalists interviewed in an article that appeared in the Penn Capital Star on May
Republican Joe DiSarro, political science professor at Washington & Jefferson College, believes that Republicans’ redistricting plan, which political observers suggest favors Republicans, is a better option for Western Pennsylvania (“Westmoreland officials favor congressional map that unifies county,” Jan. 23, TribLIVE). This plan splits communities where Democratic voters reside and moves