Author Marie Dennis

The Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) have made it increasingly more difficult for expanding choice schools to purchase their empty buildings. Wisconsin Reporter details the problems a successful choice school...

Chicago icon Mike Ditka announced his endorsement for Mayoral candidate Bob Fioretti. Chicago 89 WLS covered the former Bears coach's announcement. Speaking ahead of a small fundraiser at Ditka's Steakhouse...

Shootings and homicides continue in Chicago with 25 homicides already in 2015. The Chicago Sun Times reported three deaths and sixteen others were wounded in less than a 24 hour span. In the most recent fatal...

The City of Milwaukee reported a drop of 17% in homicides from 2013 to 2014. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on the decrease. Preliminary data shows that 87 people were victims of homicide this year,...

A recently released report details the results of an investigation of Chicago Public Schools by Chicago Board of Education’s Inspector General Nicholas Schuler. According to the Chicago Sun Times, it showed...

A recent study done by the Southern Education Foundation showed that over half of the kids attending public schools from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade are eligible for the free or reduced lunch program....

Protesters spoke out at a hearing held to discuss turning over parkland on the South Side of Chicago to the University of Chicago to build the Obama Library. They expressed the need for U of C to build an...

Police arrested a Milwaukee man for shooting and killing 13-month old, Bill Thao. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on the arrest. Darmequaye D. Cohill, 21, was charged with first-degree reckless...

In October, a Detroit Judge dismissed charges against Officer Joseph Weekley who shot and killed 7-year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Counter Current News reports that an appeals court has denied the appeal...

Chicago Rapper, VonMar (Delvon Irving) was charged with felony retail theft and misdemeanor damage of property. According to DNA Info, he videotaped himself and his friends looting the store and then posted it...