Showing posts with label Colonial Manor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colonial Manor. Show all posts
Sunday, November 03, 2019

Gahan's toxic Colonial Manor farce is reason enough to vote against him.

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It's endlessly fascinating to watch peak, self-interested Gahanism in action. Gahanism is about power, money and control; all ideas ...
Friday, August 09, 2019

Momma recommends Chicago City Pizza, coming soon to 2601 Charlestown Road.

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A reader writes: "I noticed a new pizza place scheduled to open on Charlestown Road next to the BP across the street from where th...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

"If it wasn't an election year it would have passed 9-0 ... this opportunity is gone." Anyone got a Kleenex?

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"It's all private property." Yes, Deaffrey ... it is private property, and YOU can do anything you want with it. ...
Thursday, May 02, 2019

In truth, Team Gahan's politically-motivated ineptitude produced its Colonial Manor fiasco -- but neighborhood activists continue "moving forward."

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We've established that Team Gahan is prone to being scandalously "butthurt" (as the kids like to say) whenever it is challe...
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Marohn: "The core cognitive dissonance in our affordable housing conversation."

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A short and insightful piece follows, in which Charles Marohn doesn't pretend to have all the answers. As with many housing issues...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Let's focus on Jeff Gahan's breathtakingly brazen string of fake facts and outright lies about Colonial Manor.

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On Wednesday afternoon just a few hours before the listening event sponsored by Colonial Manor Redevelopment Visioning, City Hall released a...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Council rejects Gahan's, Redevelopment's Colonial Manor tax increment financing lollapalooza by a 5-4 vote. Alterations to come?

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It might surprise you to hear me say that overall, tonight's council meeting was one of the most informative in a good while. The pro...

Researcher says: "In most cases around the country TIF did not fulfill its main goal of boosting economic development."

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The reason why we're always talking about TIF? TIF benefits are routinely exaggerated TIF abets pay-to-play political patronage ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Hello darkness, my old friend: Is David Barksdale yet again the council's swing vote on Gahan's Colonial Manor power play?

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"Shades of the Reisz Mahal," said the  spider to the fly . The Green Mouse has been told that occasional Republican councilma...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

City Hall's staged Colonial Manor farce: It was INFORMATIONAL, you see, not COMMENTATIONAL. Deaf Gahan can't help it if voters don't know the lingo.

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Last week's sadly shambolic City Hall charade on the topic of Colonial Manor's future proved a confusing, painful and infuriating...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Innovative ways of redeveloping Colonial Manor -- or, things John Gonder was talking about ten years ago.

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In 2015 after two city council terms John Gonder ran afoul of the mayor's DemoDisneyDixiecratic patronage machine and lost his re-ele...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Colonial Manor redevelopment visioning to be the subject of a public meeting on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

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One must remember at all times that whatever it is, Jeff Gahan was for it  before anyone else -- unless it's bad, then he was again...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

What they're saying: At-large council candidates Roseberry and Bell.

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As the weeks go past in route to May's primary election, I'll try to provide periodic unedited candidate statements of approximate s...