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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 14, 2015
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The next great cause in Chicago: A financial transaction tax
Now that the mayor is reforming TIFs, it's time for another progressive fight.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 14, 2015
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Voters pushed Mayor Rahm to the left. Will he stay there?
How the mayor changed course to win reelection
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 3, 2015
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As he seeks Wilson's runoff endorsement, Mayor Rahm has the willies
The mayor—with help from Governor Rauner—tries to build his African-American support.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2014
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Mayor Rahm v. Mayor de Blasio
In a comparison between Mayor Emanuel and New York's Bill de Blasio, Chicago loses again.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2013
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Mayor Rahm to Prosser High: Beat it!
Mayor Rahm's so eager to fire more union teachers, he's planning to stick a Noble Charter high school across the street from Prosser High—public safety be damned.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2013
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School closings in Chicago—I ain't over 'em yet!
Mayor Emanuel's decision to close 50 schools only seems to get worse with time.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 28, 2012
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NYSE sale to ICE different from CBT to CME
In the battle of the acronyms, New York fared better than Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2012
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Mayor Rahm: talking trash to Chicago firefighters
A Chicago firefighter speaks truth to power, when Mayor Rahm makes one of his infamous firehouse visits to tell the rank and file he's cutting their pensions
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2012
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Marvin Miller: champion of free markets
Remembering a left-of-center trade unionist who forced baseball's right-of-center capitalists to live up to some semblance of the free-market ideologies they professed
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 7, 2012
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To Mayor Emanuel, some jobs are worth more than others
What's really saved by privatizing a couple dozen positions at the water department?
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 18, 2012
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The shrinking slush fund
As the TIF stream slows, Mayor Emanuel dips in anyway
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 28, 2012
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The mayor's millionaire club, part II
A look at Rahm Emanuel's calendar shows how wealth and access, far more than party identity or ideology, have come to comand the attention of politicians—leaving everyday people out of the conversation
- News & Politics, Sidebar Jun 28, 2012
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Pull up a chair
Fifteen of the donors and insiders who got access to Rahm Emanuel
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2012
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The voters have spoken—God help us all!
Once again, Chicago's voters are their own worst enemies.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2012
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In this week's Reader: The making of an alderman
What's in the January 19, 2012 issue of the Reader
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 19, 2012
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So funny it hurts
State tax break for the Merc is more laughable with each passing day
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2011
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A financial exchange
CME needed the big tax break it just got, because it has so many hungry pols to feed.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2009
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How cap & trade will benefit Chicago... and Goldman Sachs
Chicago stands to benefit from a cap-and-trade carbon emissions market via the Chicago Climate Exchange, and the environment might as well. But it's worth taking a skeptical look at the plan.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2008
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City of Big Spreadsheets
Get your credit default swaps at the Merc (soon).
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2008
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More good econ news
Chicago may become ground central for the credit default swap market, if the Merc's bid goes through.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2007
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Money for nothing . . .
Welfare for the well-off: a new proposal would give $40 million in TIF funds to the newly merged Merc and Board of Trade.
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 3, 1996
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Busted
A rogue trader's path from the pits to prison in 25 steps