JJ Letters to the Editor

Monday, January 31, 2005By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette John J. "Jack" O’Neil, a retired addictions counselor and memorable Pittsburgh Post-Gazette letter writer, died of cancer Thursday at his Sewickley home. He was 78. "He was often called an old curmudgeon, but he was lovable," said his wife, Theodora. "He was very real, and he made…

November 26, 2004 As a writer most of my life, I love words as much as musicians love notes. But when you let readers (and I love them, too) throw words around like they were rewriting the Bible and the Gettysburg Address, I sometimes wonder if all the editors at 34 Blvd. of the Allies…

Friday, September 12, 2003 After reading the garbage-laden letter from Grove City‘s Walter Carson about the PSO and the Pope (“PSO, say no to the Pope,” Feedback, Sept. 5), I pondered just what would constitute an appropriate reply. Carson presents such moronic vituperation and egregious insults I knew I could not reply in kind as…

March 15, 2002 At last! The March 8 letter from Dr. Lawson Bernstein (“No Laughing Matter”) finally brings a serious note to the ongoing saga of Judge H. Patrick McFalls Jr. Dr. Bernstein realistically and credibly states that alcoholism is a disease (not a crime) and has symptoms, a treatment of choice and an outcome.…

June 7, 2001 The three-ring circus masquerading as the U.S. Senate now has everything. It has Democratic snake charmers, it even has Republican contortionists and now it has a duly elected leopard that has changed its spots: James Jeffords. I don’t know how Vermont does things, but it would appear that Jeffords claimed to be…