Ron Berler News Today

A story of a young baseball loving US reporter and a gift from Oscar Zamora, a struggling Chicago Cuba pitcher from Cuba.

Ron Berler is a Connecticut-based freelance writer and author of “Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America’s 45,000 Failing Public Schools.” This piece ran originally in the Houston Chronicle. Two weeks after the funeral for Amerie Jo Garza,...

The Cubs, obviously, won’t be there. But some old favorites will.

Fourth and last in a series of posts comprising the full text of a story published in the Chicago Tribune's Sunday magazine 50 years ago, on April 23, 1972: a description by Ron Berler, a...

Third in a series of posts comprising the full text of a story published in the Chicago Tribune's Sunday magazine 50 years ago, on April 23, 1972: a description by Ron Berler, a 22-year-old...

Second in a series of posts comprising the full text of a story published in the Chicago Tribune's Sunday magazine 50 years ago, on April 23, 1972: a description by Ron Berler, a 22-year-old...

George Plimpton had a long and varied career in journalism, writing everything from literary criticism to an appreciation of fireworks. He is best remembered for his multiple accounts of trying to...

Stories of anxiety from inside the Connecticut classroom.

Stories of anxiety from inside the Connecticut classroom.

Local View: Remember Heatwave Berler? Started in Duluth, hes still hot in Texas From the column: "The winters (in Duluth) just about killed him. He’d curl up in bed with a good meteorology book and dream about Senegal, the Amazon rainforest — and Laredo." Written By: Ron Berler | × KDAL-TV weatherman Richard "Heatwave" Berler wearing one of his T-shirts, August 1976. (Joey McLeister / News-Tribune) When my brother, Richard “Heatwave” Berler, met me at the Laredo, Texas, a...