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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 12, 2020
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Bob Dylan’s ode to Chicago
The new Michael Reese TIF plan tries to undo the damage of the old one.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 28, 2020
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Power play
Mayor Lightfoot channels her inner Mayor Daley.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 17, 2020
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Dr. Ehrman told us so
The coronavirus pandemic was made worse by years of public health cuts.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 12, 2020
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Chicago’s three-card monte
Mayor Lightfoot’s TIF “reform” does not tell you how much the scam costs.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 22, 2019
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Ready for reform, Chicago?
Mayor Lightfoot vows to change the city from the ways of Rahm.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 16, 2019
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Race to the bottom
The great debate: Was Mayor Rahm worse than Mayor Daley?
- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Apr 26, 2019
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How #NoCopAcademy shook the machine
The coalition lost the vote but changed the narrative on police spending.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 25, 2019
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The aldermanic prerogative myth
Chicago would rather solve a phony problem than deal with a real one like the lack of affordable housing.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 29, 2019
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Lori and Toni were missing in action
Lightfoot and Preckwinkle claim to be progressives but they stayed away from the front lines during the great fights of the Rahm years.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 18, 2019
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A tale of two gardens
Woodlawn gets a grocery store and Lincoln Yards gets $1.3 billion in Mayor Rahm's Chicago.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 11, 2019
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The ruling 35 percent
The vast majority of Chicago voters sit out another mayoral election.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 22, 2019
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High stakes in the mayoral election
Chicago voters finally get another chance to elect a mayor who won't tax the poor to feed the rich.
- News & Politics, Politics Feb 4, 2019
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Q&A with mayoral candidate Toni Preckwinkle
"It's really critical that as mayor you have good working relationships with all of the constituencies that make up the city."
- News & Politics, Politics Dec 20, 2018
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Preckwinkle fund-raising e-mail seeks to capitalize on Cyntoia Brown case
But the mayoral candidate doesn't mention ways to help the incarcerated Tennessee woman.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 18, 2018
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Mayoral forum recap: all the answers, none of the bullshit
At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 10, 2018
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Which mayoral candidates will survive the petition challenge process?
Thanks to former Mayor Daley and his allies, Chicago has the highest mayoral signature requirement in the country.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 27, 2018
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An expression of gratitude for political and local events over the last year
Good job, Illinois voters. Bravo, Jeff Bezos (in a backhanded sort of way).
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2018
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You can thank Karen Lewis for the national wave of teacher insurrections
The red-shirt-wearing teacher activists from Kentucky, West Virginia, and Oklahoma obviously learned a thing or two from Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2017
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Some advice for Chance the Rapper when he meets with Governor Rauner
Don't fall for Rauner's BS, Chance.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2016
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Dipping into TIF accounts to avoid a teachers' strike, Mayor Rahm finally does the right thing
For years Reader columnist Ben Joravsky has been pushing the mayor to do just this.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2015
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Rahm could've been the hero in the McDonald shooting
By doing the immoral and politically stupid thing instead, Emanuel is a bum.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 19, 2015
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A glimmer of hope as Mayor Rahm and DePaul celebrate wasting our money
Mayor Rahm basks in the glow of his great TIF triumph—taking millions from bankrupt schools and wasting it on his DePaul/Marriott boondoggle.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2015
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The ghosts of the Daley administration haunt Mayor Rahm's budget hearings
Though he blames Mayor Daley for the budget crisis that's making him jack up property taxes, Mayor Rahm has filled his budget office with old Daley staffers.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2015
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Mayor Rahm brings back the budget hearings!
With Mayor Rahm getting ready to jack up your taxes, he has to at least pretend he gives a hoot about what you have to say.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2015
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Do Chicago voters have Rahm-related buyer's remorse yet?
The CPS mess Rahm's crew created will be discussed at the next First Tuesday with Mick and Ben at the Hideout.
