During the last few weeks, I engaged in a little shuttle diplomacy with Alexandra Holt, the mayor’s budget director, and Ken Davis, host of a public access television talk show.
Generally, I’m the one who tells you that—again and again.
So for the last four years, Mayor Emanuel’s created this budget-time ritual, in which he praises himself for not having raised property taxes, when of course he’s raising them every year through his TIFs.
The ad points out that the city will be making taxpayers pay more than $362 million in property taxes next year.
Two weeks ago, she was a guest on Chicago Newsroom, the public affairs show on CAN-TV, hosted by the aforementioned Ken Davis.
I think we should view Ken’s show as sort of our own version of a neutral country—think Switzerland during the Cold War—where rival factions can safely meet, though not necessarily at the same time.
