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- Say hello to Cuppy's. Another coffee chain opens its first Chicago location.
- Taking parenting advice from Britney Spears, a 26-year-old woman left her kids in the car with the windows up and hot air blowing while she went to Cook County Criminal Court on the south side.
- Oak Park/River Forest High School alumni Charles Simic was named poet laureate by the Library of Congress.
- Keep drinking your beer, Cubs fans. Carlos Zambrano left today's game in the sixth inning with heat-related leg cramps.
- His Elective Majesty calls a mulligan in his hunt for a new police superintendent, asks for a nationwide search to replace Phil Cline.
- A judge orders politically connected building owners to prove that they didn't just paint over mold and feces in a building they own in Old Town.
- Is that a snake in your pants, or are you just happy to see us? It's a snake in your pants.
- Condos near Midway Airport? Not on Alderman Michael Zalewski's watch.
- Little Leaguers on the Near West Side could lose their playing field this month.
- A campaign fundraiser for Alderman Manny Flores' bid for Congress (sponsored by a developer who started tearing down historic buildings on Division and Ashland) was abruptly cancelled.
- Columbia College Chicago announces its Green Design Curriculum.
"Looking Down" courtesy of Mister Bucket's Party Time.
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Isn't a mulligan when you screw up and want a do over? This sounds like Daley just didn't like the finalists the board came up with.
Unrelated to these topics, I'm curious about how much BP paid you guys to run that ad that keeps cropping up around the site, and why you guys have said almost nothing about their Whiting refinery. This is a big issue. Don't have have an opinion, or has BP paid you to keep quiet?
Anybody else curious about that?
Guest #2: Were you here earlier this week?
Paid to keep quiet? As a site with a non-paid staff, I sincerely doubt that.
Instead, had you done some legwork yourself and gone through the archives (you know, type "BP" into the search bar at top and see what comes up) you would have noticed we've given the Whiting refinery our attention, both at length and pointing out stories of note in "Extra Extra" earlier this week related to it, as well as address the irony of BP ads popping up on the site directly in the comments, which is no different than a magazine like The Atlantic Monthly accepting advertising from a company on which it writes critical reports.
We've even looked at the cross purposes of the refinery in the midst of BP's sponsorship of one of the Cool Globes.
You could have also e-mailed myself or one of my fellow editors directly with your "concern" about the BP ad (our e-mail addresses are listed under our staff bios). My guess here is you're not really that concerned about the ad, instead chiming in anonymously (as is your right) to, as the saying goes, "stir up some shit."
Chuck: 1. Guest #2: 0.