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Brenda J. Linert

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 ...

Court document outlines Jan. 6 defendant’s crimes

Click here to read Rachel Marie Powell's sentencing memorandum 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 ...

Share your grateful thoughts with us this season

Just last week I finally got around to hanging the autumn wreaths on my doors at home, along with the fabric “ghosts” that my mother gave me years ago, to blow around as the wind whips onto my front porch. The weather has gotten extremely “crisp,” seemingly overnight, and my dad ...

‘Go pink’ to raise breast cancer awareness

Headlines carried beneath our newspaper’s flag emblazoned in rare pink last week spoke of the “War” against breast cancer, “Pinking out” in Austintown, and “Warriors” who gathered for the large annual luncheon intended to honor local breast cancer survivors. It occurred to me ...