George Pyle

Editorial page 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.).

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In this Aug. 21, 2019, image from video, New Zealand House Speaker Trevor Mallard bottle-feeds lawmaker Tamati Coffey's baby, Tutanekai Smith-Coffey, while presiding over a debate in parliament in Wellington, New Zealand. Mallard said he’s been trying to make Parliament a more baby-friendly place.

Why the conservative path to happiness won’t work for everyone, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | November 29, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

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In this Sept. 21, 2012, photo, U.S. novelist Toni Morrison applauds as she attends the America Festival at the U.S. embassy, in Paris.

Utah schools are pulling books. We should give students more credit, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | November 21, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

In Liverpool, government investigates terrorism. In Utah, government participates in it, says George Pyle

By George Pyle | November 17, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carson Jorgensen, chairman of the Utah Republican Party, center, was surrounded by members of the public reacting in agreement to public comment by raising their hands in solidarity against the newly drawn redistricting maps in House Building, Room 30, Nov. 8, 2021.The public got to respond on Monday to the Utah Legislature’s Redistricting Committee's only public hearing for the map proposals.

Here’s one cynical argument in support of Utah’s congressional map, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | November 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

Utah Jazz grab loose ball when public officials fall short on young girl’s death, George Pyle says

By George Pyle | November 12, 2021, 11:13 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Steve Christiansen, R-South Jordan and Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding push for a forensic audit of the 2020 election during Wednesday's Judiciary Interim Committee's meeting on election integrity, to "hear presentations on perspectives regarding election integrity" according to the agenda.

Some Utah lawmakers should quit, George Pyle wrote. And one actually did

By George Pyle | November 1, 2021, 6:13 p.m.

(Screenshot via Twitter) Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, dressed as the character Ted Lasso, and Kyrsten Sinema, D-AZ, dressed as the character Rebecca Welton from the series ahead of Halloween on Thursday, October 28, 2021.

Mitt Romney isn’t evil but that doesn’t mean he’s right about taxes, George Pyle writes

By George Pyle | October 31, 2021, 12:00 p.m.

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In this Jan. 6 photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington.

Does Salt Lake really want potentially violent 2024 Republican National Convention? George Pyle asks

By George Pyle | October 29, 2021, 9:21 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gina Thayne, aunt of Dillon Taylor who raised him, speaks in front of his portrait as people gather for a vigil on the six-year anniversary of Taylor’s death by the murals of people killed by police near 800 South and 300 West in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, August 11, 2020.

George Pyle: Appeals court tells Salt Lake City police they can assume we are all armed, so they can shoot us

By George Pyle | October 27, 2021, 8:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Primary Children’s Hospital caregiver Dr. Jill Sweney, medical director of the pediatric ICU, shares some sad stories about her experience treating kids with COVID as she steps outside the hospital for a brief moment on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021.

George Pyle: Utah politicians and radio jabberers should pull a shift at Primary Children’s before spouting any more anti-vax propaganda

By George Pyle | October 26, 2021, 5:05 p.m.