Isn’t organized crime, “the mob,” a thing of the past? Not so, according to Brian Bardsley, Jr., Chicago Police SWAT Team leader and medical response specialist. It has merely gone respectable, although not legit. Over a half-century ago, after the FBI, the Kefauver Commission and RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and …
NASA aerial photos, before (above) and after (below), show the Great Flood of ’93. The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers expanded to a huge lake, which isolated the City of St. Louis and suburbs as a barely accessible island in a great Midwestern sea.
On Memorial Day our thoughts turn to our own military heroes, past and present, who have helped defend our country and our way of life. The what-ifs, if we had not resisted and prevailed—a world under fascism? —are chilling. Wherever your father, grandfather, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters or …
A judge in the 2018 Writer’s Digest self-published book competition awarded 96 percent of (29 of 30) available rating points to Radio: One Woman’s Family in War and Pieces, by Alice H. Green (1913-1982) and Peter H. Green. This contemporaneous memoir concerns the role of women in World War II …
Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. Encore publication,First posted, Oct. 28, 2017 Not only is this novel a good yarn, it is an epic. In the classical definition, an epic hero is the most significant man in his culture, in the most significant age, participating in the …
I’m delighted to inform to my readers of the new Fringe Magazine, an online “glossy” publication, which brings high quality visual images, thoughtful commentary, selected writings and artist interviews to her team’s growing audience. Created by Sarah Jane “S. J” Robinson, talented writer of Orwellian science fiction, such as her …
