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The court heard that in a four-month period in 2015 when she did teach in Chioggia near Venice, students complained of her lack of preparedness, her failure to bring textbooks and her "random and improvised" way of marking.

Then I learned about the candy cane variety — chioggia — and it was just a flat-out quest to find those.

Tourism is booming in the Italian town of Chioggia, which has long lived in Venice’s shadow.

For Chioggia, anything taken away from Venice has the taste of an underdog’s redemption.

Venetians mock Chioggia, by calling the city symbol — a lion, the same as Venice’s symbol — “el gato,” the cat.