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Extra Extra: Rev. Jesse Jackson May Protest The Grammys

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Feb 1, 2012 12:00AM


  • The Rev. Jesse Jackson is furious with the Grammys and the Recording Academy after a third of the awards categories were cut in a way many perceive to be ethnically discriminatory. Now he's hinting that he might protest. [SPIN]

  • A new study says screw the electric barriers and stuff. Just build a wall to keep the invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. In about 29 years a highly evolved Asian carp will declare, “Mayor! Tear down this wall!” [Tribune]

  • Disconnecting Lake Michigan from the Chicago River would cost at $3.26 billion, largely due to changes in flood maintenance. [Crain's]

  • Neil Young claims Steve Jobs preferred vinyl records over his own iPods. [AP]

  • DuPage County is fat and happy. It's science. [TribLocal]

  • The power failure at a nuclear reactor has been traced to a failed electrical insulator. [Tribune]