Nov 9, 2017 2 min read

I am curious as to why your editorial page cannot be balanced with informative and practical columns rather than scathing and ridiculous commentary.

As a local businessman, I sit here facing a 53 percent increase in health care costs for my employees for 2018. I face enormous cash flow challenges because of a complex tax code that is heavily written against our business; and I want to preserve a competitive workplace where my employees can count on us for income to pay for the needs of their families. What we get from the Observer-Reporter is a megadose of columnist Paul Krugman, who sits in his Ivy League tower and pontificates on progressivism.

What we don’t get in your pages is truth.

The response to your daily proposed reality is that most people don’t trust government or the people in it. We don’t understand why we always pay more, but politicians go to Washington, D.C. and get rich. How does that happen? Why aren’t the interests of all the people represented in your pages? If you want to waste space, why not offer another point of view? That way, your readers will view your pages as serving the public, offering the prospect for truth to be revealed somewhere in the middle of it all. Otherwise, you are no better than TASS. You are nothing more than purveyors of the party line.

I commend you for your local community news reporting. I think you will find that this is the reason most people continue to read the Observer-Reporter. Your editors are doing us a disservice with the opinion page, however.

Bill Wilson

Canonsburg