JJ Letters to the Editor

Funeral Home Copeland’s, 702 Beaver Ave., Sewickley. 412-741-7100 Directions – From the traffic light, either coming off the Sewickley Bridge or coming from Pittsburgh on Route 65, this is the main intersection in Sewickley at Broad St. Going up Broad St., you’ll pass St. James Catholic Church on the left (where the funeral will be).…

December 26, 1997 This is an open letter to all of your readers who are also fans of the Lynn Cullen show, recently cancelled by WTAE in its questionable opinion that everybody in Pittsburgh wants to talk about Sports. (God Help Us !!!) Many years ago, Rege Cordic, Pittsburgh’s most famous radio personality of the…

December 22, 1997 In the words of the great philosopher Yogi Berra, it looks like deja vu all over again. Consider the headlines chronicling our ongoing “negotiations” with a madman who is the leader of a foreign country who is trying to blackmail the supposedly intelligent leaders of the free world into making certain “concessions”…

August 6, 1997 The news media’s criteria for what is “newsworthy” continues to fascinate this 1951 journalism graduate of Duquesne University. Back then, we had five W’s and an H – who, what, when, where, why and how. And of course, it was a sin to even hint at an editorial comment in a news…

June 17, 1996 The 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous often comes under public scrutiny by competing private services that know the price of everything and the value of nothing. This time they even fooled your staff writer (“Faith Fading as the Basis of AA, Some Leaders Say,” May 20). To begin with, there are no…