JJ Letters to the Editor

January 9, 1996 Still another letter saying “It’s ‘No’ for Rehab Center” (Dec. 28) and again, from a resident of Brighton Heights, where someone is trying to reactivate the long-gone St. John’s Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Center. What’s with these people? The NIMBY crowd. They don’t want anything or anybody in their neighborhood that doesn’t…

February 3, 1995 The retirement of Pittsburgh broadcasting’s patriarch, Paul Long, prompts several observations about this man’s remarkable achievements over a long — and I DO mean Long — and productive career. I first met Paul at KDKA Radio, then in the Grant Building, several years after his historic headline utterance when word came over…

December 30, 1994 The recent deaths of the Carnegie Mellon and Pitt students from alcohol overdoses is a continuing but avoidable tragedy. But, as usual, following the shock and disbelief and hasty denials of blame from the fraternities comes the supposedly exonerating assertion from the university PR machine that instruction on alcohol abuse is part…