Residents fear limited hours of operation during a pilot program don’t bode well for a permanent return of the routes.
Tag: Ameya Pawar
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Hey, Mayor Rahm—join the Chicago teachers’ strike!
It’s not too late for Mayor Emanuel to jump on the bandwagon and join CTU on its one-day strike for more state aid.
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Get ready for Rahm’s TIF Tax Hike, Chicago
Once Mayor Emanuel raises the property tax rate, he will inevitably make Chicagoans pay still more money to his beloved tax increment financing slush fund.
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The school board’s moment of insight on charters
In the category of good news, Mayor Rahm’s school board punts on Noble’s proposal to open a new charter high school in Uptown—just in time for Karen Lewis and Troy LaRaviere to talk about it at next week’s First Tuesdays show at the Hideout.
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Rahm or Chuy? Watch us track the returns live from the Hideout
Watch a live stream of Reader writers Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky tracking runoff election returns.
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Election night at the Hideout with a trio of aldermen
We’ll be reliving the great political battles of the last four years and talking about the ones to come on the April 7 election night First Tuesdays show at the Hideout.
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Mayor Rahm works some Magic to avoid a runoff
As we stagger toward the finish line of the mayoral election, Mayor Rahm brings in Magic Johnson to win over the undecided black vote.
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Mayor Rahm and his rubber-stamp City Council’s hall of shame
Professor Dick Simpson’s analysis of the “rubber-stamp” City Council enables us to rank the five worst things the Mayor Rahm’s made the aldermen do.
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Alderman Ameya wants Mayor Rahm to bring back full service to the Lincoln Avenue bus
DePaul basketball arena v. the Lincoln Avenue bus: The mayor spends hundreds of millions on a project nobody wants while saving peanuts, if anything, on bus line that thousands of seniors need.
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The politics of Chicago’s potholes
City Council lapdogs aren’t getting their streets fixed any faster than independents.
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Mayor Rahm drifts to the left on the minimum wage
The politics behind Mayor Rahm’s slow—very slow—creep to the left on raising the minimum wage.
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Rahm’s alderman explains why Chicagoans will now have to pay more taxes to get less
Ameya Pawar, alderman of the 47th Ward, says the city’s pension obligations and budget problems are forcing “really tough choices.”
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Aldermen advance Rahm’s South Loop plan without analyzing it first
While the plan for independent analysis stalls, the City Council approves $55 million for the mayor’s hotel and stadium deal.
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In a remapped ward, politics is not a two-way street
Residents meet their new alderman during a Lincoln Square traffic dispute.
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Our aldermen (at least a few of them) finally challenge the mayor on TIFs!
Aldermen (at least a few of them) finally challenge the mayor on TIFs!