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THE MILLIONAIRE TAX RAN OUT OF BALLOTS
The Chicago City Council filled the last open slots on two election ballots Wednesday. When the chamber adjourned at 12:26 p.m., the millionaire tax question had no city ballot left to reach. No alderperson voted against it.
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Before They Exercise Their Potential
On March 4, 1968, the FBI sent a memo to its field offices. It instructed agents to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them “before they exercise their potential for violence.” The standard was the potential itself. It required...
$100 Million, No Memo
What happened: Illinois built a $100 million State of Israel bond position through repeated purchases of $5 million to $20 million over a decade, most recently at the widest spreads in the record. Why it matters: the office’s signed FOIA de...
Chicago Runs on One Job
Austin Berg wanted to talk about structure before we talked about anyone’s name. We sat down in Lincoln Square on a summer afternoon. The problem, in his telling, is the shape of the government itself, more than any one mayor.
Berg has spe...
America Started This War and Couldn't End It Alone
The Signing
On June 17, 2026, from a room at Versailles, Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding to end a war the United States had started in February by killing Iran’s supreme leader. Pezeshkian signed for Iran from his own...
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Co-Founder & CEO of GrayStak, an independent press operation and signal product. Co-author of Political Velocity, the framework behind DPVI. Writing about U.S. political escalation while it's still moving, before consensus forms.
Former Congressional candidate and cancer researcher, pro-peace US Army veteran, and human rights activist. Still fighting for the working class.
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