Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler is a nationally recognized award-winning journalist, fiction writer and poet whose essays and columns have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines and on public radio and the Internet.
Koehler's column is intensely political without being trapped in partisan politics. It is about values and meaning, back-lit with reverence for life, exploring emotional territory journalism often avoids but readers hunger to read about. Response to the column is often powerful. One reader described it as "blatantly relevant."
Robert Koehler has won numerous writing and journalism awards over a 30-year career, at the national, state and local levels. He is currently a regular contributor to such high-profile Web sites as the Huffington Post, Common Dreams, OpEd News and TruthOut; and is a sought-after speaker on such topics as election fraud and the nature of peace. Eschewing political labels, he considers himself a "peace journalist."
Koehler has been an editor at Tribune Media Services since 1995 and a syndicated columnist since 1999. For many years before that he was a reporter, columnist and copy desk chief at Lerner Newspapers, a chain of neighborhood and suburban newspapers in the Chicago area.
Robert Koehler has earned a master's degree in creative writing from Columbia College and taught writing at both the college and high school levels. Most satisfyingly, he developed innovative approaches to teaching writing to young people at several high schools on Chicago's West Side under the auspices of the Chicago Teachers Center.
Born in Detroit and raised in suburban Dearborn, Koehler has been slowly making his way west. After 10 years in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he attended Western Michigan University, he moved to Chicago in 1976 where he still lives.
Koehler is a widower and single parent. He explores both conditions at great depth in his writing.
Robert Koehler Samples
Know-nothing security
Let's all work together to stop terrorism! The Palm Beach County, Fla. If it seems suspicious, call -- because, I guess, if everyone is vigilant and we work with the authorities, America will be safe as pie in no time.
Indefinite enemies
You're strapped to a metal table, unable to move. The practice of involuntary force-feeding is condemned by most medical organizations, including the AMA.
A floor of decency
"Everywhere near the building, the stench of death was overpowering. We move from tragedy to tragedy with hellish regularity.
Chasing infinity
In the new security state, not even garbage will have privacy.
Grief without borders
"She had a great sense of humor and freckles and red hair that brought her right to her Irish roots." She was "a dream daughter." I have a daughter, so maybe that's why these words cut so deep.
Drone world
In the not so distant future, America's skies will be full of . . . drones. What could go wrong?
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