Gene Collier

Pittsburgh

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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The spectacular antithesis of what a president should be

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Gene Collier

Among the unsightly sights and incongruent sounds of the president's birthday parade the other day in Washington was the distinctive throbbing bass line of "Barracuda," a half-century-old rock song by the estimable Heart.
Gene Collier: The spectacular antithesis of what a president should be

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Gene Collier

Among the unsightly sights and incongruent sounds of the president's birthday parade the other day in Washington was the distinctive throbbing bass line of "Barracuda," a half-century-old rock song by the estimable Heart.
Gene Collier: The spectacular antithesis of what a president should be

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Gene Collier

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Gene Collier: The spectacular antithesis of what a president should be

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Gene Collier

Among the unsightly sights and incongruent sounds of the president’s birthday parade the other day in Washington was the distinctive throbbing bass line of “Barracuda,” a half-century-old rock song by the estimable Heart.
Gene Collier: The Constitution’s sun setting is finally setting under Donald Trump

2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Gene Collier

From late May until the last days of a hot summer in Philadelphia, it took the founding fathers 16½ weeks to cobble together an aspirational document called the Constitution of the United States, or put another way, about a week and half longer than it took Donald Trump to take it apart. Your precise time frame may vary and the historians will have final say, as ever, but I’m tentatively positing May 4, 2025 as the day the Constitution died. More on that designation in a minute.
Judge approves House v. NCAA settlement, allowing schools to pay college athletes

3 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Stephen Thompson |Abby Schnable |Gene Collier |Paul Zeise

Federal Judge Claudia Wilken has made college sports history again by approving the settlement to House v. NCAA, a landmark court case in which a class of athletes sued college sports’ governing body and its five wealthiest associated conferences for damages related to lost earnings and the right to be paid directly by the institutions they play for.
Gene Collier: Two things are certain with the GOP: death and lying about dying

3 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Gene Collier

Baby’s so high that she’s skying / Yes she’s flying, afraid to fall. / I’ll tell you why baby’s crying, / ’Cause she’s dying, aren’t we all.”Those are the bridge lyrics in the old Harry Chapin heartbreaker “Taxi,” a haunting ballad too long and too maudlin to fly anywhere near the top of the pop charts in its day, but its thematic regret, of dying and lying and lying about dying somehow seem pretty fresh, right?
Gene Collier: The frightful winds of hurricane season

3 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Gene Collier

Sunday is the first day of hurricane season, and we trust you’ll note the occasion accordingly. I usually drive to the Dairy Queen, then cry softly in the car over an Oreo blizzard, but wait — being told that’s more a matter for Mental Health Month. Anyway, hurricane season is now officially longer than football season and potentially a lot more destructive according to the people at NOAA who survived DOGE season, in which Elon Musk blew through the government infrastructure like a Category 5.
Gene Collier: The '60 Minutes' ticking ticks down for America

1 month ago | post-gazette.com | Gene Collier

Though it can sometimes feel as though I was in college when Pebbles Flintstone was a cheerleader, some of the pillars of professional excellence we revered in journalism school held up fashionably for most of the next half century. In the case of CBS News and its investigative flagship “60 Minutes,” until this spring.
Gene Collier: Honoring the greatness on Memorial Day

1 month ago | post-gazette.com | Gene Collier

The Memorial Day weekend has long claimed an extra-comfortable place on the American calendar, a four-day affair with beer, baseball, hot dogs, and rock ‘n’ roll (see WDVE’s annual Memorial Day 500 countdown), even as its original intent didn’t figure into anyone’s version of a celebration.

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RT @Krush59: It’s crazy how no one knows this, but the tax law currently in place is because of Trump and it completely fucked over the mid…