SPINELESS IN CHICAGO. In Chicago magazine, Steve Rhodes explores how the mayor always gets his way with the City Council: "When disastrous ideas come around ... they pass with flying colors."
* Sources to Sun-Times: Wrigley alderman OK with scrapping scoreboard for video version "as big as you want."
'WORSE THAN NIXON.' The First Amendment advocate who represented The New York Times when the government sued over publication of the Pentagon Papers says the Obama administration "is worse for press freedom than former President Richard Nixon."
* Climate-change-denying congressman to head subcommittee on climate change.
WILL CNN APOLOGIZE? More than 220,000 people have signed that online petition demanding the network take back its sympathetic coverage of the sentencing of two men convicted of rape in Steubenville, Ohio. The Atlantic says "it's hard to understand why CNN wouldn't feel compelled to address the backlash."
* Steubenville rapist to appeal because his "brain isn't fully developed."
* Two girls charged with social-media threats against Steubenville rape victim.
COLBERT BUMP. Stephen Colbert's sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, is the easy winner in the Democratic primary for a South Carolina seat in Congress.
* Colbert joins sister's political team: "I’m not worried about what it would do to me or my show to try to help her as myself – not as my character."
Meyerson + Kogan, 2 p.m. today on WBEZ's "Afternoon Shift."
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BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Gay-bashing Westboro Baptist Church has a new neighbor right across the street in Topeka: A rainbow-colored home. And Google Maps played a part.
* WBEZ's Nico Lang: What's holding up Illinois' Marriage Fairness Act?
* Nine justices, no waiting: Supreme Court to release audio recordings of next week's gay-marriage arguments just hours after conclusion.
PANTS IN THE NEWS.
* PolitiFact gives "pants on fire" rating to Michele Bachmann's statement that 70 percent of food stamp funding goes to bureaucrats.
* Lululemon warns of yoga pants shortage after recall for too-revealing fabric.
LOLLAPALOOZA LOOKAHEAD. The headliners set for Grant Park Aug. 2-4 include Mumford & Sons, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend and the Killers, according to Greg Kot in the Tribune. Tickets go on sale Tuesday.
* Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving silent films set for Chicago screening.
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