George Pyle

Opinion Editor

George has been an editorial writer, columnist and blogger for The Tribune's Opinion Section since 2002 (with a four-year diversion to do the same things for The Buffalo News in Buffalo, N.Y.).

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Curtis Benjamin joins educators, parents and other public school advocates as they rally on the steps of the Utah Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Advocates feel many anti-public school measures have been made by the Legislature this year.

Taxpayers in Jordan School District aim anger at wrong people, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | August 10, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A TestUtah site alongside Utah Valley Pediatrics at 750 W 800 North in Orem on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.

Story of TestUtah is connections and campaign cash over knowledge and experience, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | August 3, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

In this Oct. 7, 1954, photo, Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, holds a rack of test tubes in his lab in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

My dad got polio as a toddler. I’m appalled at resistance to COVID jabs, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | July 27, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

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In this Dec. 3, 2018, photo, workers put the finishing touches on a battery pack for a Tesla Model 3 sedan at Tesla's northern Nevada Gigafactory in Reno, Nev.

How in the Utah summer blazes does drilling wells when we’re handcuffed to fossil fuels diversify anything, George Pyle asks

By George Pyle | July 20, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

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In this Jan. 31, 2018, photo, shows Provo Republican Sen. Curt Bramble on the Senate floor at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City.

Abortion is not ‘slaughter of innocent unborn children,’ George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | July 14, 2022, 4:52 p.m.

Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Tuesday, February 1, 2022.

I have rediscovered the joy of public transit, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | June 22, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

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An "I'm Taken" placard rests on a real estate for sale sign outside a home, Dec. 10, 2020, in Manchester, N.H.

Here’s one way Utahns can put $100 million a year toward affordable housing, George Pyle writes.

By George Pyle | June 15, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

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Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes speaks during the Utah Republican Party convention on April 26, 2014, in Sandy, Utah.

Utah’s Sean Reyes falls from breath of fresh air to fascist toady, George Pyle writes.

By George Pyle | June 1, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(Joshua Rashaad McFadden | The New York Times)

Two women embrace on Sunday, May 15, 2022, during a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y. A day after one of the deadliest racist massacres in recent American history, law enforcement officials in New York descended on the home of the accused gunman and probed disturbing hints into his behavior, as Gov. Kathy Hochul promised action on hate speech that she said spreads "like a virus."

Democracy itself is on the line unless Republicans do more to denounce racism, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | May 19, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

(photo courtesy Walt Disney Pictures) An adult Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) is surprised to find his childhood friend, Winnie the Pooh, in London, in a scene from the live-action movie "Christopher Robin."

Mike Lee thinks children will turn gay from watching cartoons, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | May 12, 2022, 12:00 p.m.