Gene Collier
Columnist at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Now entering a fifth decade writing columns in Pittsburgh. No improvement. Also, Carbon County Sports Hall of Fame (Oh, it's real.)
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
In what was either a blatant attempt at committing governance or a feeble effort at getting noticed, the United States Congress actually did something last week, or at least part of it did, even if it was something of no particular merit. Perhaps you remember Congress, formerly a co-equal branch of American government, holder of purse strings, adviser, consenter, investigator, approver, maker of laws. But that was months ago.
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
In the unlikely event it hasn’t occurred to you already, please allow this gentle Sunday up-to-speed notification. If any foreign country, any rival government, even any loosely aligned shadow terrorist movement, had done to America what the second Trump administration has wrought within the space of 84 days, we’d be at war. Right now.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
Perhaps you’re aware the good ol’ USA has become destabilized over the past, oh, 78 days, and that said destabilization is indeed multi-factorial, from the acute tariff mania convulsing the economy to the apparency that anyone can now be kidnapped and hustled off to a foreign prison just for the hell of it. Thank God we somehow made it to Stress Awareness Month, right? Yeah, it’s still only April.
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2 weeks ago |
mahoningmatters.com | Gene Collier
Half a century before cinematic nightmares began on Elm Street, an adjacent address made it to the big screen in what few realized was a watershed moment for college sports. Huxley College, it seemed, was desperate for athletic talent, and an innovative student proposed a deft solution to his well-positioned father.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
Half a century before cinematic nightmares began on Elm Street, an adjacent address made it to the big screen in what few realized was a watershed moment for college sports. Huxley College, it seemed, was desperate for athletic talent, and an innovative student proposed a deft solution to his well-positioned father.
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