Ron Feinberg

Ron Feinberg
Ron Feinberg is a veteran journalist who has worked for daily newspapers across the Southeast, including the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fla. and the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C. He recently retired from The Atlanta Journal Constitution where he had been an editor since 1979. He was the news editor for The Atlanta Journal before it was folded into The Atlanta Constitution in the mid-1980s, then news editor for The Constitution. In the mid-1990s he helped create the AJC's Faith & Values section and served as its first editor
Number of posts: 12
Email address: ronfeinberg@bellsouth.net

Posts by Ron Feinberg:


    Talk, Voices

    Don’t look now, but the future has arrived!

    by Ron Feinberg | 12, Add your Comment | Jul 10 10
    Don’t look now, but the future has arrived!
    First of all, you need to understand I’m a low-tech sort of guy. Back when I first started earning money playing with words, I did my work on a typewriter. That’s right, one of those little contraptions that had keys you pounded and a paper carriage that you tossed back into position after typing a sentence or two. These days, other than my computer and a pretty ancient cell phone, I still remain rooted in the 20th Century. It’s not that I have anything against the magical devices that are being developed today. I simply fear I’ve reached that point of ...
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    Life, People & Places, Talk, Voices

    Now I have a real reason to be ticked off

    by Ron Feinberg | 11, Add your Comment | Jul 8 10
    Now I have a real reason to be ticked off
    My wife and I just returned from an emergency visit to the local fire station. I needed a little attention from one of the medics. The episode began simply enough with Wendy noticing a little blemish on the back of my neck. I’ve been spending way too much time outdoors in recent weeks, working in the yard and exercising, and my wife thought perhaps I might want to make an appointment with a dermatologist. Then she noticed that the blemish had, ugh, legs and our little problem took on a bit of added urgency. Wendy made an effort to remove the thingy that was clinging to my neck, ...
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    People & Places, Talk, Views, Voices

    Katrina, Camille and a massive oil spill

    by Ron Feinberg | 1, Add your Comment | May 25 10
    Katrina, Camille and a massive oil spill
    The images out of the gulf coast are alarming, nature once again showing who’s boss – and who ain’t! The daily horror show -- oil-slickened beaches, wetlands, birds, turtles and other critters – is a heavy price to pay for our inexhaustible craving and need for energy. The area, of course, has been hit hard before, most recently and dramatically when hurricane Katrina roared onto shore, demolishing man-made structures and pristine beaches from the Florida panhandle, across Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. New Orleans has yet to fully recover. And it’s the Crescent City that I’ve been thinking about lately, that jazzy happening of ...
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    Life, Talk, Voices

    Back to nature in North Atlanta

    by Ron Feinberg | 9, Add your Comment | May 11 10
    Back to nature in North Atlanta
    It’s a zoo out there. No, really, my neighborhood is starting to look like a zoo! There have always been dogs and cats, birds, squirrels and chipmunks. Occasionally I’ve spotted a snake sunning itself on my driveway and a raccoon or two looking for a snack on my patio. Rabbits have been multiplying like, well, rabbits around here for years. But this week nature has grabbed hold of my little corner of the world and reminded me once again of the collision course the ‘burbs and the beasts are facing these days. While weed-whacking my yard into shape recently, I took a break ...
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    Life, Talk

    The Sin of Ham

    by Ron Feinberg | 13, Add your Comment | Jan 3 10
    The Sin of Ham
    I was nearly asleep when I heard footsteps and glanced up to see my mother standing at the doorway of her bedroom. She looked annoyed, shaking her head in irritation. "Would you please come take this elderly woman out of my room," she said. I shuddered and pushed myself to my feet, then followed my mother into her room. It was semi-dark, a splash of light from the adjoining bathroom spilling across the floor and across her bed. As usual, the room was immaculate. Two matching night stands with huge lamps, adorned with oriental designs, were on either side of the bed, a ...
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    Life, Talk

    Ron and Bill’s excellent adventure!

    by Ron Feinberg | 12, Add your Comment | Nov 11 09
    Ron and Bill’s excellent adventure!
    It was still early as we lined up in front of the flag pole, jostling about, trying to mimic the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) troops to our left. We were volunteers, a mixed-bag of Zionists from literally around the world – New Zealand, Australia and South Africa; Russia, England and Holland; Chile, Canada and the U.S. Surely we could figure out how to stand along the lines painted in the asphalt where we stood and snap to attention when the order came from the commander. Our hearts were mostly in the right place, but it was tough to look polished and professional wearing ...
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    Sights & Sounds, Talk

    Our shrinking world

    by Ron Feinberg | 1, Add your Comment | Aug 28 09
    Our shrinking world
    I was privy recently to an important conversation with a man named Meylakh Sheykhet. Everything about him seemed a little foreign initially and there was a time not so long ago that it would have been impossible to reach him. But the world has changed and there’s magic about these days – computers and e-mail; Facebook and Twitter; Google, Yahoo and Bing. You just need to know how to conjure up the proper spells, ahhh, search engines. On a recent afternoon, I sat inside a windowless meeting room at the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta in Midtown, part of a committee looking ...
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    Southern Hospitality, Talk

    The meaning of life

    by Ron Feinberg | 14, Add your Comment | Aug 4 09
    The meaning of life
    My friend Bill and I were sitting in Goldberg’s, sharing a bagel and war stories. Both of us are recently retired from that newspaper on Marietta Street and still trying to figure out what we’ll be doing with the rest of our lives. We toss around a few of the options – airline attendant, junior executive, stocking clerk at Kroger or cashier at QT. Bill adds the “f” word – freelancing. It’s about then that we decide we should be in a bar instead of a southern-fried deli in East Cobb. Inevitably we find ourselves staring blankly at one another, the same ...
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    Life, People & Places

    A visit with Lady Liberty

    by Ron Feinberg | 1, Add your Comment | Jul 16 09
    A visit with Lady Liberty
    The news earlier this month of the reopening of the Statue of Liberty, once again letting tourists wiggle their way through the iconic figure on Liberty Island, had me tumbling backward to a memorable trip my family took to New York in the early 1990s. Right here in metro Atlanta, of course, we have our own hotspots – Stone Mountain, the Margaret Mitchell House, CNN, the Big Chicken – but eventually most of us Southerners get a hankering to visit the Big Apple. If you plot out the details before arriving, over a long weekend it’s possible to visit the Central ...
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    Sights & Sounds, Talk

    Witness to an execution

    by Ron Feinberg | 5, Add your Comment | Jul 5 09
    Witness to an execution
    I was witness to an execution in Georgia last week. It was an ugly, painful sight. I was returning from an errand, turning off of Riverside Drive onto Johnson Ferry Road, just south of the Chattahoochee River where Fulton and Cobb Counties bump up against one another. Traffic came to a sudden halt and I spotted a workman in the middle of the road holding a stop sign. Additional workers, all sporting reflective vests and DOT hard hats, were standing alongside the road, staring toward a culvert where a stand of oaks and pines had recently been cleared away, part of a ...
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    People & Places, Talk

    Remembering a hero

    by Ron Feinberg | 3, Add your Comment | Jun 29 09
    Remembering a hero
    The death of Michael  Jackson was the top story last week. The entertainer made headlines around the world, praised for his talent, his ability to bridge the gap between blacks and whites with his music and his philanthropic endeavors. He was, almost everyone agreed, a hero. Such talk had me thinking about someone I had the opportunity to interview years ago, when I was the editor of the Faith & Values section of The Atlanta Constitution. While she had her 15 minutes of fame back in the mid-1990s, not too many people would recall Oseola McCarty today. A quick reminder: She ...
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    People & Places, Talk

    Separate but equal

    by Ron Feinberg | 13, Add your Comment | Jun 23 09
    Separate but equal
    The University of Georgia spread out before me and everything seemed possible. It was 1967 and the fall quarter was to begin in a few days. I had driven up to Athens from Columbus with a friend, his ’64 Chevy filled with several bags of luggage and an old metal footlocker held together with a tangle of rope and masking tape. It was a lengthy trip. At the time there was no simple way to make it from central Georgia, through Atlanta and on to Athens. The state’s massive interstate system was still mostly an idea in somebody’s desk at the ...
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