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Morning Chooljian: WBEZ Morning Reporter Lauren Chooljian stops in with the news to look forward to and a little weekend round up.
Anti-TV Guide: Every Monday, Maggie Dziubek reviews the moving pictures that reveal themselves in an episodic way only on the Internet. This week: What’s Trending, a Youtube show whose topic is… YouTube. Also, the show’s broadcast history is a parable of new and old media’s rocky relationship.
Constitution USA: Our friend upstairs, Peter Sagal, host of Wait,Wait, Don’t Tell Me has a TV show premiering Tuesday night. It’s called Constitution USA and in it, he drives around on a Harley Davidson, seeing how Americans are living life around the law.
City Movies: Urbanologist Max Grinnell drops in to play clips from films that prominently feature a city in a non-speaking role. What are your favorite movies that capture the essence of a city, from the States out to the world?
Free neighborhood parking on Sundays part of meter settlement - Chicago Sun-Times
Why is it down from the $61 million that Chicago Parking Meters originally claimed?
“Under former Mayor Richard M. Daley, City Hall allowed the meter company to do the calculations on how much it should be reimbursed. But Emanuel says the city always had a right to make those calculations itself, and when the bills began to soar, he ordered aides to check the math.
Last summer, City Hall spent more than $300,000 to develop software that allows it to crunch the meter company’s numbers and compare them with the city’s records regarding out-of-service meters. The software was used to study more than tens of millions in parking transactions that Chicago Parking Meters turned over to the city a year ago.
According to the city’s analysis, the company overstated the percentage of time that meters were out of service — in some cases by as much as 15 percent. As a result, the company has been putting in for far higher reimbursements than it should get, the analysis found.
For example, the company claimed it was owed $25.5 million for out-of-service meters.
The city’s analysis pegged that figure at $3 million.”
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There Are Almost No Chechens in the United States—Here’s Why
Chechens have a horrific, bloody history. Hundreds of thousands of people died in two wars with Russia in the 90s and early 2000s, and the capital, Grozny, was nearly leveled to the ground. There were claims that Russia was attempting ethnic cleansing. “Not a single night goes by without someone disappearing. Masked men come into homes and take people away,” one resident told a Boston Globe reporter in 2003.
Unlike people from Iraq, Somalia and other hotbeds of strife, however, very few displaced Chechens resettled in the U.S., despite the fact that the decade of conflict caused 350,000 Chechens to flee from their homes.
So why are there so few Chechens in America? Mainly, because we don’t resettle Chechen refugees here.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4007717fd497f24374b649e014df01fa/tumblr_mlpxfcMhgB1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
There Are Almost No Chechens in the United States—Here’s Why
Chechens have a horrific, bloody history. Hundreds of thousands of people died in two wars with Russia in the 90s and early 2000s, and the capital, Grozny, was nearly leveled to the ground. There were claims that Russia was attempting ethnic cleansing. “Not a single night goes by without someone disappearing. Masked men come into homes and take people away,” one resident told a Boston Globe reporter in 2003.
Unlike people from Iraq, Somalia and other hotbeds of strife, however, very few displaced Chechens resettled in the U.S., despite the fact that the decade of conflict caused 350,000 Chechens to flee from their homes.
So why are there so few Chechens in America? Mainly, because we don’t resettle Chechen refugees here.
Read more. [Image: Reuters]
Morning Chooljian: Lauren Chooljian, WBEZ’s morning reporter, fills us in on the stories she’ll be keeping an eye on this week.
Que Extraño, Abuela: Barrel of Monkeys long-running theater collaboration with Chicago Public School students is going to start churning out new plays en español. Molly Brennan, Artistic Director of Barrel, is in studio to talk about the process of putting together their show, which you can catch Mondays at 8pm at the Neo-Futurarium.
Local Hip-Hop: Ike Sav start playing piano when he was five, followed by violin, and soon found out that classical music was not his calling. An original composer, producer, and lyricist, Ike Sav talks with us about launching a music career.
Anti-TV Guide: The Young Turks talk show, hosted by Cenk Uygar, has been on some form televised media since 2005. With Al-Jazeera’s purchase of Current TV, the fate of the show on cable is up in the air, but it is definitely still online. Maggie Dziubek has a guide to the whole TYT media empire.
Ever want to live in Western Colorado? Well, Paonia’s community station is hiring a News Director!
Monday’s report of someone in KKK regalia is the latest in a recent spate of what the school described as “hate-related incidents on campus.” Last week, a swastika and other graffiti appeared in Oberlin’s Conservatory of Music. Earlier last month, anti-Semitic, racist and homphobic graffiti was found on the campus, which is located in Oberlin, Ohio.
Morning Stories: WBEZ Reporter Lauren Chooljian is the first person in the building every morning. She brings us the stories that are consuming the Chicago media and her own little world, from the Wells Street Bridge closure and ensuing traffic snarls to a new treatment for HIV in infants.
Anti-TV Guide: Pride and Prejudice has been adapted for the big screen, the small screen, and inspired spin-off books. But now it’s been adapted for YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr in a trans-media extravaganza that’s been running online for over 90 episodes. Maggie Dziubek, our Anti-TV Guide, has the review.
Lauren Chooljian is the first reporter to arrive at our office every morning. She’s got the stories she’s looking at this week, including continuing the conversation around gun violence after Obama’s Friday appearance in the city, the newest shenanigan’s with Jesse Jackson Jr’s relinquished congressional seat.
Last night the 3rd annual “Streamys” were held, awards for teleivision programming only available online. Well, you know our Anti-TV Guide, Maggie Dziubek had it covered.
The protesters staged a sit-in to point out that the South Side has no trauma care centers that can treat adults for injuries sustained in shootings, stabbings, car crashes and other such incidents. The U. of C.’s Medical Center only admits trauma victims up to age 16.
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From DNAInfo Chicago Senior Editor Jen Sabella’s Facebook page:
It was a huge undertaking for a rookie news organization, but we made it happen and I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished. Dozens of grieving families we spoke to were happy to tell the stories of the people they lost — and surprised anyone even wanted to know about them.
It’s easy to write off some of these victims, and perhaps makes us feel safer living in the city when we pretend that these people have nothing to do with us. But they do. They’re hair stylists, parents, students, bus drivers, soldiers and small children.
