Retirees deserve increase
This is a reply to the May 4 cartoon and editorial titled ‘‘Consider cost of pension hike’’ regarding state workers’ pensions.
Pennsylvania’s retired state workers have not received a cost-of-living adjustment in six years. The Mirror’s cartoon portrayed the General Assembly granting instant pension increases for state workers with the caption, ‘‘Just flip the switch, and you will have a COLA.’’
I noticed in an earlier article that Pennsylvania legislators would receive a 50 percent COLA increase if the state workers received a COLA. I do not understand how you can raise an objection to retired state workers receiving COLA increases after six years and not object to the legislators receiving such a large COLA that is not equal to what the state workers would receive.
The U.S. Congress and federal employees have been receiving COLA increases annually. The last time federal employees did not receive a COLA was during the Reagan administration.
Nuclear better option
A claim that industrial wind plants in Pennsylvania could produce as much electricity as three large coal-burning plants was made in a recent letter to the editor.
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God absolutely has the ‘‘whole world in his hand’’ and knows what to do. God says, my people are getting sick because of a lack of knowledge. Knowledge is the best medicine. What we don’t know can be killing us.
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The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ decision to open 75,000 acres of state forests to gas drilling combined with a decision to consider opening 45,000 acres to wind plant development indicate that the department’s decision makers ha
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What kind of a cruel sick world are we living in that someone could take a blind pony and drag it behind an all-terrain vehicle until it died as happened in Mercer County?
Don’t people have any humanity? When I read that, it broke my hea
Aid cuts hurt students
In late April, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency directors did something no board member wanted to do — vote to notify student grant recipients that their awards for the next academic year could be reduced by almost 15 percent.
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