The current column on the SD Chicago home page starts with
To the Teeming Millions:
Sorry about the long delay since my last posting. To make it easier to get these columns out on a regular basis, and also frankly to give me more chance to explore subjects I find interesting, I’m changing the Straight Dope Chicago format starting this week.
Unfortunately, the column is dated April 14, 2011 and has stayed there, unchanged, for the last two months.
So is the idea of a strictly Chicago division of Straight Dope World Enterprises dead?
No, not dead. But changing, as here:
http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20110414.php
To the Teeming Millions:
Sorry about the long delay since my last posting. To make it easier to get these columns out on a regular basis, and also frankly to give me more chance to explore subjects I find interesting, I’m changing the Straight Dope Chicago format starting this week. Although I’ll still answer questions sometimes, other times I’ll launch straight in as I’m doing now. I’m also not going to shoot for any particular length, not that I’ve tried real hard on that score up till this point. In other words, SDC will become a lot more bloglike, although it’ll still focus on life in the big city.
MikeS
June 17, 2011, 3:02pm
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Justin_Bailey:
Comedy fucking gold!
That quote does look vaguely familiar.
That said, I suppose that Cecil did say that the column would “become a lot more bloglike”, and there are oodles of blogs out there that don’t update for months at a time. So.
It would help if there was a link from the Straight Dope homepage. If there is one I couldn’t find it.
Can anyone else see the articles from before 2010? I click on them and I just get a blank white page.
Are there plans for Straight Dope blogs for other cities too?
Let’s go back to what Ed Zotti said back when the SDC site debuted:
The Chicago Reader is part of the Creative Loafing chain of alternative newspapers. Will you be launching local Straight Dope columns in Washington, Atlanta, and so on?
If Straight Dope Chicago flies, and the publishers of CL’s other papers are interested, we might. What a local Straight Dope presence in another city would look like, and in particular whether it would feature a local Straight column, remain to be seen. We note, however, that Cecil comes from a large family, many of whose members are currently out of work, and if we can get these mopes out of the basement and into gainful employment, well, we might as well kill two birds with one stone.
Right now, I’m more concerned with the Chicago section staying afloat than with what might happen someday.
I’m better at supplying questions than answers, but I’d be happy to roll up my sleeves and help to make SD-Chicago a winning idea, if I can help out.
There were plans, even still relatively recently, but I cannot speak as to the current status of any of them.