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Michigan State University Is Botching its Reputation-Rehab
By Steve Friess The chairman of Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees said he had [...]
Toledo’s #MeToo Moment: A popular school board member with a well-known history as a sexual predator finally gets taken down
By Joey Horan Patrick Hickey, a prominent educator in Northwest Ohio, was arraigned yesterday in [...]
Illinois gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives shows that, ahead of the 2018 Midterms, Trumpism is still thriving in the suburbs
By Jonathan Foiles The ad opens on a group of disparate individuals thanking Illinois Gov. [...]
A Flint resident on the good, the bad, and the complicated in Netflix’s gritty new docu-drama, ‘Flint Town’
By Connor Coyne If you had asked me a few weeks ago what the words [...]
The latest assault on public education by WI Gov. Scott Walker? Attempting to resegregate students in Racine County.
by Lawrence Tabak On September 17, 2017, the Wisconsin Senate, voting along party lines, joined [...]
With more than half of its tenants burdened by soaring rents, Chicago considers rent control
By Mina Bloom and Ariel Cheung Photography by Sebastián Hidalgo Lesley Gonzalez grew up [...]
The Milwaukee Anthology: Call For Submissions
Milwaukee! We need your stories! Belt Publishing will be compiling an anthology of essays, stories [...]
A letter from the front lines of the WV Teacher Strike
By Jessica Salfia In 1990 I was nine years old, and my mom, a single [...]
On The Redlining Bus Tour In Milwaukee, WI
By Lauren Sieben On a Saturday morning in early February, with six inches of snow [...]
28 minutes from Cleveland to Chicago? I’m on board with Hyperloop.
By Bert Stratton I’m on board. I’m good with the proposal from Hyperloop, a California [...]
St. Louis Anthology! Call for Writers!
Meet us in St. Louis The St. Louis Anthology Call for Submissions Belt Publishing will [...]
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