Author: Barbara Iverson

• Strange Tail: the City of Chicago vs. Reggie the Cat

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• Career Academy Bemoans Teacher Layoffs

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• Mentoring Program Looking for Some Big People

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• By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News In the continuing saga of Reggie, Lincoln Square’s most wanted cat, his person, Luise Jochum, schlepped out into the cold on a rainy, October…

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• Teachers at a South Side vocational school last week accused Chicago Public School administrators of creating chaos for students by shifting teachers around weeks into the school year and…

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• Volunteers are needed on Thursdays from 3:45-5:00 p.m. at Perspectives Charter School, 8131 S. May St., Chicago. These mentoring sessions include a coordinator from the Big Brothers Big Sisters…

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• Fenger Seeks Mentors for Life Lessons

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• Sunlight Labs: Blog – Adobe is Bad for Open Government

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• Joseph Walker does not want the death of his grandson, Derrion Albert, to be in vain. He made that clear last week to the Chicago Board of Education as he spoke about Derrion, a 16-year-old honor…

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• Open source, not proprietary coding is citizen friendly. Try VLC from theora, and other open codecs. PDFs and Flash are nice, but don’t play nice with the rest of the Internet

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