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Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm tries and fails to tell the truth about TIFs and taxes

by Ben Joravsky October 22, 2015August 18, 2021

The mayor doesn’t tell the truth about TIFs and taxes even while trying to abide by the state’s “Truth-in- Taxation Law.”

Posted inBlogs

Election night at the Hideout with a trio of aldermen

by Ben Joravsky April 6, 2015August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Using Jimi Hendrix to beat Mayor Rahm’s fund-raising machine

by Ben Joravsky February 13, 2015August 18, 2021

Here’s hoping some positive vibrations can overcome the negativity paid for by Mayor Rahm’s limitless bank account and get this election to a runoff.

Posted inBlogs

What Pilsen taught Chuy Garcia

by Steve Bogira December 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Between his years in a little village in Mexico and Little Village in Chicago, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia learned a lot about race and ethnicity in Pilsen.

Posted inBlogs

The unlikables: why Mitt Romney lost the election

by Ben Joravsky November 13, 2012August 19, 2021

No wonder Obama won the election: the Democratic big tent is so big that it even includes includes Republicans like Mayor Rahm!

Posted inBlogs

Toni Preckwinkle, Ken Davis, and I talk marijuana

by Ben Joravsky March 23, 2012August 19, 2021

When it comes to marijuana, Toni Preckwinkle and I almost see eye-to-eye.

Posted inBlogs

Former police chief blasts pot busts

by Mick Dumke January 6, 2012August 19, 2021

How ex-superintendent Jody Weis would like to see pot arrests reformed

Posted inBlogs

Your humble blogger visits cable TV

by Michael Miner August 19, 2011August 19, 2021

Shaw, Miner, Davis on Chicago Newsroom

Posted inBlogs

Joravsky, Bus on Chicago Newsroom

by Ed M. Koziarski December 30, 2010August 19, 2021

Ben Joravsky and fictional mayoral hopeful Ald. Ed Bus on the year-end episode of Ken Davis’s CAN TV series “Chicago Newsroom.”

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