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Ben Joravsky
- News & Commentary, Politics, Feb 4, 2010
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Harold and the Hyneses
Dan Hynes's Harold Washington ad is a reminder that we're still paying for the racial politics of the past.
- News & Commentary, Politics, Jan 28, 2010
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Election Follies
Age-old feuds, nepotism, logrolling, and Moonies—it must be primary season in Chicago.
- News & Commentary, Politics, Jan 21, 2010
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Cook County Needs Cojones
Which Dem candidate for county board president is most likely to take on Mayor Daley?
- News & Commentary, Politics, Jan 21, 2010
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Election Confusion?
In the run-up to February's primaries, Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky take a look at the races that could have the most impact on your life.
- Blogs, The Blog, Jan 18, 2010
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Senator Raoul's Appeal For Haiti
Senator Kwame Raoul makes an appeal for help for victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
- News & Commentary, Politics, Jan 14, 2010
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Who'll Keep Your Rent Down Now?
In the Cook County assessor's race: the insider, the outsider, or the guy with no phone?
- News & Commentary, Politics, Jan 7, 2010
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Independent of What?
How Alderman Gene Schulter and north-side party regulars engineered an IVI-IPO endorsement for their candidate Dan Farley
- News & Commentary, Politics, Dec 31, 2009
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Who Deserves to Be Disqualified?
Once again the vagaries of the petition-challenge process end up protecting the incumbents.
- News & Commentary, Politics, Dec 17, 2009
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It Doesn't Take Much to Be a Maverick
Alderman Tom Allen makes history by daring to question the mayor's pet financing scheme in City Council chambers.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Dec 10, 2009
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Shedding Light on the Shadow Budget
The TIF budget we recently pried from the city's grip reveals drastic inequities in how the money's spent.
- Blogs, The Blog, Dec 4, 2009
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Hey Mayor Daley, let's have lunch
A letter to the editor by Mayor Daley's budget chief raises the question: Does anyone in City Hall understand how TIFs work?
- News & Commentary, Politics, Dec 3, 2009
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The Passenger With a Gun
A cabbie waits for the police department to police one of its own.
- Blogs, The Blog, Dec 2, 2009
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It's All My Fault
Mayor Daley blows his parking-meter wad on one budget. Is he just trying to prove the Reader wrong?
- Blogs, The Blog, Dec 2, 2009
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The Sun-Times Discovers TIFs
The Sun-Times goes after Mayor Daley's TIF scam.
- News & Commentary, Politics, Nov 26, 2009
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The Insider
Remembering the unflappable Michael Scott
- Blogs, The Blog, Nov 24, 2009
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Who's Daley supporting in the battle for Block 37?
The newly appointed lawyer for the receiver in the Block 37 case is Jack George from the law firm of Daley & George—as in, the mayor's younger brother Michael Daley.
- Blogs, The Blog, Nov 19, 2009
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CPS Pres Michael Scott's Backroom Meeting at Edna's
A backroom meeting between CPS board president Michael Scott (now deceased), Arne Duncan, Danny Davis, and Rickey Hendon is making the rounds. I reported on that meeting in 2006.
- News & Commentary, Politics, Nov 19, 2009
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Transparency in Action
How a bill intended to expand the state Freedom of Information Act was bastardized to expand the mayor’s shadow budget
- Blogs, The Blog, Nov 10, 2009
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David Orr Releases His Annual TIF Report
Cook County Clerk David Orr tallies up the 2009 TIF take.
- Blogs, The Blog, Nov 5, 2009
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Don't Mess With Big Joe
Andrea Raila drops out of the race for Cook County assessor.
