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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Third grade class in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. Under HB312, Utah students will be required to analyze specific Bible passages referenced or “alluded to” in U.S. historical documents.

George Pyle: New Utah legislation opens up a religious can of worms that some may come to regret

By George Pyle | May 1, 2026, 12:05 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Voting at the South Jordan Library, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.

George Pyle: Time was, we needed the feds in our elections. Not anymore.

By George Pyle | March 22, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Trent Staggs at the Utah Republican Nominating Convention in Salt Lake City on April 27, 2024.

George Pyle: Lee and Staggs lead us toward Vichy Utah

By George Pyle | September 9, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | For The Salt Lake Tribune) Pat Bagley is pictured in The Tribune's newsroom years ago.

George Pyle: Pat Bagley has a special way of speaking to, and for, Utah

By George Pyle | July 6, 2025, 12:10 p.m.

(Kristin Murphy | Pool) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks with members of the media during the PBS Utah Governor’s Monthly News Conference at the Eccles Broadcast Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

George Pyle: It’s hard to square Cox’s admiration for Reagan with his support for Trump

By George Pyle | May 31, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

(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.