- Blogs, Bleader, May 24, 2013
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Did you read about masturbation, Billy Joel, and Ronald McDonald?
Also David Koch, "Save Prentice," cat bearding, Richard Simmons, Jay Carney, and Guided by Voices?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 24, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's school board takes a big stand!
Chicago's school-closing board once again proves it's a wholly owned subsidiary of Mayor Rahm.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2013
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During school-closing vote, Mayor Emanuel is heard but not seen
Rahm made himself scarce as his education aides finalized the plan to shutter 50 schools.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2013
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Did you read about food stamps, Stockholm, and Girls Gone Wild?
Also shootings, a nine-year-old boy, mocking a Sikh woman, and BYU's computer-animation program?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
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Tribune sued over Red Plum/Local Values
Chicagoans who don't want Red Plum/Local Values but get it anyway sue the Chicago Tribune.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
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What are you waiting for? Today's the last day to vote for Best of Chicago!
The deadline is midnight tonight.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
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Looks like Governor Quinn will have to save us from Mayor Rahm—again!
Let's add Governor Quinn's name to the long list of people Mayor Rahm won't talk to.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2013
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Did you read about Anthony Weiner, the Obie Awards, and the Cleveland Cavaliers?
Also aquifers, the "real space age," a Holocaust survivor's reaction, American soldiers in WWII France, a Baltimore motorist, and the 2003 World Series of Poker?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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ArtPlace America ignites Great Chicago Fire Festival with $250,000 grant
A brand-new grant adds flame to the pyre.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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Did you read about the Oklahoma tornado, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Phil Jackson?
Also Gus Wenner, Twin Prime Conjecture, female anxiety, the anchored putting stroke, and 3-D printing pizza?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 21, 2013
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A look at immoderation on the pundit front
Tyranny—one more thing to worry about
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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Remembering Chicago's great school boycott of 1963
Kartemquin Films documents the city's last big school protest—just in time for the present one.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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Did you read about ketamine, Tumblr, and the New York Times?
Also the income-inequality gap, the personal e-mails of a Fox News reporter, dolls with 3-D printed-replica heads, and John Hollinger?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2013
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Did you read about Eric Holder, the Village Voice, and The Third Coast?
Also women running for office, an evicted Rogers Park couple, a jewel heist, and Mr. Men?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Doing it wrong on guns, Chicago-style
With guns as in schools, mental health, and economic development—you can count on Chicago to do the wrong thing.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Before Obama's enemies came down on him he was catching it from his friends
The case for President Obama as authoritarian didn't begin with his enemies.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2013
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Did you read about David Simon, Dan Brown, and KFC in Gaza?
Also the IRS "scandal," a letter to the Department of Justice, Dave Meltzer, a New Criterion theater critic, and the Wiggles?
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Red Plum forever! Whether Tribune subscribers like it or not.
My continuing Red Plum assignment . . .
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's Chicago—in black and white
The racial breakdown in the Tribune poll on Mayor Emanuel and the schools shows that how you view the mayor depends on how he's been treating your community.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Did you read about Floyd Mayweather, Shane MacGowan, and Bea Arthur Naked?
Also oligarchs in Silicon Valley, the Red Line, Alaskan "climate refugees," Jaron Lanier, skywriting jokes, and a giant rubber duck in Hong Kong?
