I walked past city council press chief Mark Bentley twice last week, and he didn’t look too happy.

I used Twitter to speculate as to what could have caused his disgruntlement, and a few direct messages were pinged my way with theories.

But word now reaches me that he has a tendon problem in his left foot. Suddenly the pained expression (and the limp) all makes sense.

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