Veteran Press-Telegram reporter Joe Segura writes today about Legends owner Gene Rotondo banning Belmont Shore Residents Association President Mike Ruehle from his sports bar/restaurant.
The story also notes the ongoing advertising boycott which several Second Street businesses have begun against The District Weekly.
Catch Segura’s story here.

ALSO? A CHICKEN-WING EMBARGO
Seeking to control business, politics, and media on Second Street, Belmont Shore Business Association president Gene Rotondo has expanded his effort to starve the District of ad revenue, now reportedly also denying the president of the local neighborhood association continued access to chicken wings at Legends, one of several bars he owns.

Or twice, I don’t remember exactly. But I’m not proud of it, believing as I do that there are certain businesses – record shops, flower shops, running-shoe stores, breakfast spots and coffee houses — that just ought to be indie operations. But a story in Slate presents evidence that the proliferation of Starbucks (15,000 stores and expanding [...]