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Brenda J. Linert

Thanksgiving newspaper coming a day early

I’m not a meteorologist, but I do have a smart phone, and it is indicating a brisk, but sunny, Thanksgiving Day. As I write this, it’s more than a week away, but I’m hopeful, for the sake of the many holiday travelers set to take to the roads this week, that the forecast doesn’t change too much. It wasn’t that long ago that I recall a massive snow storm the week of Thanksgiving that had me stuck at the end of my driveway. Despite the nice weather forecast, I don’t plan to travel this holiday. For the past few years I’ve found that even the task of making my homemade ...

Thanksgiving newspaper coming a day early

I’m not a meteorologist, but I do have a smart phone, and it is indicating a brisk, but sunny, Thanksgiving Day. As I write this, it’s more than a week away, but I’m hopeful, for the sake of the many holiday travelers set to take to the roads this week, that the forecast doesn’t change too much. It wasn’t that long ago that I recall a massive snow storm the week of Thanksgiving that had me stuck at the end of my driveway. Despite the nice weather forecast, I don’t plan to travel this holiday. For the past few years I’ve found that even the task of making my homemade ...

Printed newspaper page really can’t be replaced

There’s just something about the yellowed, brittle pages of an old newspaper that makes me feel nostalgic. Unless I’m sitting on my living room couch on a Sunday afternoon, or on a stool at my kitchen counter early in the morning, these days I seem to be spending precious fewer minutes reading the printed newspaper. When I’m at work, it’s become much more convenient to read the daily publication via the “all-access e-edition” on my computer screen. Yes, I still subscribe to the print editions of both the Tribune Chronicle and The Vindicator at home, and each morning ...

Exploring newspaper roles at election time

For centuries, newspapers have played a significant role in our nation’s election process. We understand our importance in disbursing local, state and national election information, and we always take that responsibility seriously. During the last several weeks, we have been publishing a series of stories and boxes outlining information about incumbents and challengers, as well as about local levies and two big statewide issues that voters will face Tuesday (or that early voters already have faced). If you’re a regular reader to this column, you know I wrote about our coverage of ...

Election uncertainty? Just read the issues

Marching through election season, especially in recent years, has been hard. It brings increasingly ugly candidate debates and divisiveness among political parties, along with voters. Advertisements embellish candidates’ accomplishments, or worse, tear down and sometimes (often) lie about opponents’ backgrounds. This is not to mention the lies and confusing interpretations all over social media created with the sole intent of triggering unrest and influencing votes. Muddy waters become further clouded when seemingly everyone is a self-proclaimed expert on political ...

Court document outlines Jan. 6 defendant’s crimes

Volumes of video recordings and photographs showcase hundreds of people clamoring up exterior walls and through hallowed halls of our nation’s Capitol. They depict intruders’ use of tools like make-shift battering rams or hatchets to shatter windows as they attempted to gain entry to locked rooms amid chaos. Still, frequent cries come from some claiming the Jan. 6, 2021, attack somehow was staged or invited. Many who believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen argue these people did only what they thought was right in a wholly patriotic way. Until now, I’ve largely ...