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George Pyle

Editorial 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.).

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah State Board of Education in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 3, 2025.

George Pyle: Utah state school board members think Jefferson and Lincoln were Marxists

By George Pyle | April 13, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Park building on the University of Utah campus, Tuesday, Feb. 4. 2025.

George Pyle: Protect higher education in Utah by calling it ‘the conservative arts’

By George Pyle | February 28, 2025, 1:05 p.m.

(Rod Lamkey, Jr. | AP) Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, questions Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Energy during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington.

George Pyle: Could the Mike Lee who once supported the Constitution come back and help us?

By George Pyle | February 16, 2025, 1:05 p.m.

(Clarissa Casper | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Mehdi Heravi Global Teaching and Learning Center in Logan, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024.

George Pyle: In theory, a new unified approach to inclusion on Utah college campuses should work

By George Pyle | November 16, 2024, 1:05 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A home for sale in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Even with housing demand in Utah at historic highs, home sales along the Wasatch Front dropped earlier this year for a lack of supply. Prices, meanwhile, keep climbing for single-family homes as razor-thin supplies dampen sales and buyers go for more affordable alternatives such as condominiums and town homes.

George Pyle: To save Utah cities, we need less NIMBY and more WABY

By George Pyle | August 24, 2024, 12:05 p.m.

(Google Maps) Herriman High School, as shown in a 2021 Google Maps image, in Herriman, Utah.

George Pyle: Norwegians are justly proud of how their teachers stood up to fascist intimidation. Utahns should be, too.

By George Pyle | June 7, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) City Hall and downtown Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.

George Pyle: I’m in Oslo. But I see a big case of Stockholm syndrome in Salt Lake City.

By George Pyle | May 15, 2024, 12:05 p.m.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune In a May 7, 2019 photo, Paul Huntsman, owner and publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune, talks to the Tribune staff about having applied with the IRS to switch the newspaper to a nonprofit company.

George Pyle: I hope Paul Huntsman had fun saving this newspaper

By George Pyle | February 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Trevor Lee, R-Layton, speaks with members of the public outside the House Chamber Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023.

George Pyle: Utah’s anti-minority efforts look even more frightening when seen from Berlin

By George Pyle | January 21, 2024, 1:00 p.m.

(Petr David Josek | The Associated Press) A woman skis across the medieval Charles Bridge after a heavy snowfall in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.

It is far too easy, George Pyle writes, to travel in Europe coasting on only English

By George Pyle | December 25, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | The Associated Press) The Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City on Oct. 5, 2019.

LDS Church shunts the real Christlike work over to its women, George Pyle writes, and keeps the posturing for the men

By George Pyle | November 21, 2023, 3:07 p.m.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mitt Romney in one of the meetings trying to put the 2002 Olympics back together again.

George Pyle: There are still many Mitts. But, in dealing with Trump, we see just enough.

By George Pyle | October 24, 2023, 12:05 p.m.

(Utah State University | Levi Sim) Elizabeth Cantwell gives a brief speech following her selection as Utah State University's new president on May 19 at USU.

George Pyle: Why there is no town of Morrill, Utah

By George Pyle | October 3, 2023, 11:47 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pedestrians stroll in the open streets portion of Main Street, on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022.

Make Salt Lake City’s Main Street walkable, George Pyle writes. And drinkable.

By George Pyle | October 1, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

George Pyle: Raid of Kansas newspaper shows how police overreach can backfire

By George Pyle | August 19, 2023, 7:04 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Capitol building in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.

George Pyle: Utah government’s effort to dodge controversy echoes ‘Fahrenheit 451′

By George Pyle | July 10, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Lewis Joly | The Associated Press) An empty Eurostar platform is pictured at Gare du Nord train station in Paris, Monday Dec. 21, 2020.

France shows that train travel can work, George Pyle argues, if it’s fast and tied into local transit

By George Pyle | July 5, 2023, 3:32 p.m.

In which George Pyle looks forward to retirement. Sort of.

By George Pyle | April 28, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

Seek peace and understanding, George Pyle writes. Except when you can’t.

By George Pyle | April 5, 2023, 1:18 p.m.

University invites speaker who has attacked Utah LGBTQ? Sounds familiar, George Pyle writes.

By George Pyle | March 29, 2023, 4:39 p.m.