Transit advocate and petition maven Clay Chastain has absorbed some media punishment over the years, particularly from
Star political cartoonist Lee Judge. Most recently,
Star scribe Barbara Shelly admitted in a column that she once hid behind her child to avoid Chastain at a grocery store. Ouch. It seems the notoriously polite
Star likes to use Chastain as its occasional punching bag. Which is fine. But the newspaper might have crossed the line earlier this year when it posted a story about a Chastain-led initiative on its Web site,
kansascity.com. However fitting, the online story's headline -- "Zoo chimp dies after stroke" -- just didn't seem appropriate.
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