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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Gene Collier: Make America greater than everyone else again

5 days ago | post-gazette.com | Gene Collier

The exact date and the precise hour essentially remain in the high weeds of methodical history, but it was definitively 80 years ago this week that the United States of America and a global network of allies led by Russia and the United Kingdom defeated Nazi Germany, ending World War II in Europe.
Gene Collier: Today's great age of stupid means more suffering in the future

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

The sinister growl of Elon Musk’s government chainsaw may have moved backstage amid the twisted cirque de soleil that is Trump 2.0, but the damage continues, day by dreaded day. As American institutions splinter and crack, the most depressing impulses of the new administration are the ones that makes us demonstrably dumber by the minute.
There's no cure for this lunacy

1 week ago | meadvilletribune.com | Gene Collier

Let’s just presume for argument’s sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism by September, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month. I know. That’s a bit of a big ask.
Gene Collier: Arresting judges is only the beginning

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

Here is the list, in order, as best I can figure it. Jackson, Sotomayor, Kagan, Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Thomas. Some will recognize it as the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, though just as many and probably more will not, and the best guess of others might be that it’s the current batting order of the Colorado Rockies.
There’s no cure for this lunacy

2 weeks ago | mymalonetelegram.com | Gene Collier

Let’s just presume for argument’s sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism by September, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month. I know. That’s a bit of a big ask, as they say.
There's no cure for this lunacy

2 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Gene Collier

Let's just presume for argument's sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism by September, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month. I know. That's a bit of a big ask, as they say.
Gene Collier: There’s no cure for this lunacy

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Gene Collier

Let's just presume for argument's sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism by September, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month. I know. That's a bit of a big ask, as they say.
Gene Collier: There's no cure for this lunacy

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

Let’s just presume for argument’s sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism by September, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month. I know. That’s a bit of a big ask, as they say.
Jonathan D. Salant: Debate over noncitizen voting mirrors Pittsburgh synagogue shooter's rhetoric

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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, through an executive order, and House Republicans, through legislation, have moved this year to enact new rules designed to prevent noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections. Arguments in favor of the new rules, however, ignore three things:1. It’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote. Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996, which said noncitizens who register or vote could be fined, imprisoned or deported.
Gene Collier: A craven parable of raw corruption erased from history

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

There are monuments to it in seven states; there’s even a museum in Arkansas, but America’s greatest maritime disaster never dominated one news cycle, not even the one in which it happened 160 years ago this week. A vanishingly small percentage of people walking around today have ever heard of the Sultana, a massive side-wheel steamboat built in Cincinnati to run cotton and newspapers and people, among other things, up and down the Mississippi River.