CHICAGO — Here's what we're reading today.
Is Bernie The New Chuy? Chicago magazine explores the similarities between the campaign of Bernie Sanders and Chuy Garcia, who lost the mayoral race after forcing Mayor Rahm Emanuel into a runoff. Several Garcia-backed aldermanic candidates, however, won their election. That includes Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th), who supported Sanders in Chicago this week:
"People are tired of politics as usual, and they want candidates that they know are authentic, that are principled, and that are going to stick up for something other than, oh, who gave me the most money,” Ramirez-Rosa told the magazine.
The Fall Of Subway's Jared: Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's wife, Katie, announced on Wednesday that she is filing for divorce from her husband, just a day after Fogle agreed to plead guilty to engaging in sex acts with minors and receiving child pornography, federal prosecutors said. In a statement through her lawyer, Katie Fogle said, "Obviously, I am extremely shocked and disappointed by the recent developments involving Jared. I am in the process of seeking a dissolution of the marriage," WGN TV reports.
From Boring Commercials, Dear Netflix Deliver Us: Unless it's the Super Bowl, no one likes to watch commercials. Sure, sometimes they're clever, but other times they're super dull or just so incredibly annoying. But streaming services like Netflix have saved us from the scourge of crappy ads, and it turns out, they're saving us more time than we think. Reporter Ariel Cheung is reading a report from Exstreamist that finds we avoid an average of 130 hours — that's 5.4 days! — of commercial-watching per year when watching Netflix. Now if only Hulu would follow suit.
Nothing is certain except death, taxes ... and gas prices: Oil price is at its cheapest in years, but that doesn't mean you're paying less when you head to the pump. Gas prices in the Midwest have risen by more than 50 cents in a week, according to a Washington Post story, in part due to problems at an Indiana refinery and the higher price of making gasoline blends in the summertime. Yet, a gallon of gas is almost 80 cents cheaper than it was at this time last year, and that's led to demand growing 6.6 percent. Midwest gas prices may fall closer to $2 per gallon once the refinery is at full capacity.
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