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Posts tagged "politics"

My Unofficial Vote for Chicago Mayor: Rahm Emanuel

I lived on the Southwest Side of Chicago for most of my life, specifically in the Gage Park neighborhood.  As a reference, Gage Park is bordered by Marquette Park on the South, where the Nazi Party hosted its rallies in the 1970s, and Brighton Park on the North, where the late Pope John Paul II... Read more »
By JudeeB,
February 21, 2011 at 10:03 pm
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Chicago's political corruption 'Hall of Shame'

There’s a lesson here. A couple really. If a story includes bribery, zoning and a Chicago alderman, chances are its not news. But in this case, former Chicago Ald. Ike Carothers should have learned something from dad, especially if dad were convicted for doing pretty much the same thing decades ago. It’s only fitting that... Read more »
By Fernando Diaz,
February 2, 2010 at 11:02 am
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Gop.am, Republican URL-shortener, gets PWN'D, liberally (screengrabs)

The GOP has been trying hard to establish its own Web 2.0, digital strategy and this latest step can’t be considered more than a stunt at this point. After announcing the launch of gop.am, a service to make url’s more “conservative,” folks on the web went nuts shortening urls for Web sites that are not... Read more »
By Fernando Diaz,
December 15, 2009 at 6:44 pm
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Screengrab: Chicago Tribune online ad, story eerily similar

I knew there would be a moment at which art and life danced together in the Wonderful World of Corruption we call home. So imagine my surprised when I refreshed the front page of the Chicago Tribune‘s Web site today and noticed that the story about Christopher Kelly’s apparent suicide (via rat poison…really?) was opposite... Read more »
By Fernando Diaz,
September 15, 2009 at 1:22 pm
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