On Thursday, July 22, The Scribbler Publishing Group Podcast will delve into the American Catholic bishops’ recent controversial decision to consider a Holy Communion ban on U.S. politicians who are Roman Catholics and support women’s right to abortion.Participating in the… Read More »Holy Communion: Latest flash point in the American Catholic Church
By (his brow-beaten, unpaid collaborators) Cynthia Rickard & Robert Mcferren (published over his objections) Everyone in Youngstown liked Christmas a lot, but Bertram who lived on the North Side did not. Bertram hated Christmas, the whole Christmas season Now please… Read More »“Bertram’s Christmas Ode”
Jackie Robinson is a sports and civil rights icon. A statue of the man born in Cairo, Ga., but raised in Pasadena, Calif., has been erected in eight sites throughout America, and a local group of men and women, known… Read More »Historic ‘Handshake’ reflects Youngstown’s common courtesy
No Holds Barred, Bertram’s and other former Youngstown Vindicator journalists’ ode to the family-owned newspaper’s 150 years of providing history’s first draft, is now also available at The Book Loft in Columbus’ German Village. This popular, unique bookstore is alone… Read More »No Holds Barred now also available in Columbus
A big thanks goes out tonight to Fast Freddie, formerly of “The Wolf” Mahoning Valley radio station, for a great time earlier today on his new podcast in the snazzy new Youngstown Studio in downtown Youngstown. Freddie (aka Fred Woak)… Read More »Fun with Fast Freddie
One hundred years ago today, women in America were assured the right to vote.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vice presidential running mate Kamala Harris have thrown down the gauntlet on the issue of family values
President Donald Trump-enabler, son Eric Trump, has embraced a tweet about U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, that gives credence to the old saying, “Like father, like son.”
A year is a long time for a journalist to be away from his craft, away from readers, away from the platform that enabled him to inform the public,