Guest: Michael Volpe

George Brassea April 16, 2021

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Guest: Michael Volpe – George Brassea is the owner of True Heights Treatment LLC and Alderman of the 5th Ward in Chicago Heights, Illinois. In this podcast George interviews interesting people. The George Brassea Podcast is brought to you by Brassea Global Strategies LLC, a leading political consulting, public policy, government affairs and research firm. Find me on Facebook: Friends of George Brassea PAC, 5th Ward Business Alliance, Chicago Heights Bicycle & Pedestrian Resource Center and The George Brassea Podcast.

Author & journalist Michael Volpe discusses his book Prosecutors Gone Wild: The Inside Story of the Trial of Chuck Panici, John Gliottoni, and Louise Marshall.

Guest: Michael Volpe

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The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve

The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve (Chicago, IL) – The man who called me, a long-retired Chicago police officer, was alternately charming and curt. He insisted he had nothing to do with the murder.

by Mick Dumke February 25, 2021

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The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers

The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers – Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin. There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity.

by Alec MacGillis photography by Celeste Sloman March 8, 2021

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Conservationists See Rare Nature Sanctuaries. Black Farmers See a Legacy Bought Out From Under Them

The Sweet Fern Savanna Land and Water Reserve, in the heart of Pembroke Township, Illinois, offers a glimpse into what much of the area looked like before European settlers drained swamps and cleared forests to grow corn and soybeans.

by ProPublica October 18, 2021

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Dying on the Waitlist

Dying on the Waitlist – In early December, Miguel Fernandez lay unconscious in the intensive care unit at a Los Angeles area hospital. A mechanical ventilator pumped oxygen into his lungs, which had been ravaged by COVID-19. The 53-year-old was dying.

by David Armstrong and Marshall Allen February 18, 2021

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Held Back: Inside a Lost School Year

Teacher Ashlee Thompson had a lot to worry about this year: A deadly virus. A poor district under threat by the state. And now, a new mandate for her students: Learn to read or flunk the third grade.

by ProPublica July 6, 2021

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