
Ben Joravsky Talks about Tax-Increment Financing
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Buy for $14.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Ben Joravsky
-
Dave Glowacz
-
By:
-
Dave Glowacz
About this listen
Listen in as Chicago Reader columnist and radio host Ben Joravsky talks to Dave Glowacz on one particular focus - tax-increment financing - of Ben's articles, books, and other work. Some of Ben's articles discussed:
- "CPS's fantasy infomercial avoids any talk of strikes, layoffs, or budget cuts."
- "Rahm's fleet-facility deal helps the North Side more than the South Side."
- "County clerk's reform talk annoys another mayor."
- "Aldermen advance Rahm's South Loop plan without analyzing it first."
- "Here's the latest proposal to spend TIF money in an area that doesn't need it."
- "How much will Chicago's new digital manufacturing institute end up costing taxpayers?"
- "How to irritate Mayor Emanuel and do some legislating in one easy step."
Online since 2007, Interviews with Ben Joravsky by Dave Glowacz is an Internet and broadcast radio talk show featuring in-depth interviews on governmental and political issues important to Chicagoland residents. Dave and Ben provide not only intelligent analysis, but amusing commentary and no-holds-barred insight. Unlike other headline-level chatfests that barely touch ground, Dave and Ben's interviews provide sound intelligence that turns their audience into weaponized voters.
©2017 Wordspace Press and Ben Joravsky (P)2017 Wordspace PressListeners also enjoyed...
-
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
- By: Al Franken
- Narrated by: Al Franken
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.
-
-
I Fell In Love This Week with Al Franken
- By constructivefeedback on 06-08-17
By: Al Franken
-
This Fight Is Our Fight
- The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
- By: Elizabeth Warren
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Warren
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The fiery US senator from Massachusetts and best-selling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it.
-
-
An angry rant, not that informative
- By Havi Wingfield on 05-09-17
By: Elizabeth Warren
-
America's Bitter Pill
- Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
- By: Steven Brill
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare.
-
-
Great history, questionable solutions
- By Andrew S. Breza on 01-14-15
By: Steven Brill
-
Arguing with Idiots
- How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
- By: Glenn Beck
- Narrated by: Glenn Beck, Pat Gray, Steve "Stu" Burguiere
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper-sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.
-
-
Great Book
- By Stacy on 09-22-09
By: Glenn Beck
-
Great Again
- How to Fix Our Crippled America
- By: Donald J. Trump
- Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell, Donald J. Trump - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this book (previously published as Crippled America), we're going to look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess, and that's putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them?
-
-
Must read/listen for everyone!!!!!!
- By Mark on 07-15-16
By: Donald J. Trump
-
Common Sense for the Common Good
- Libertarianism as the End of Two-Party Tyranny
- By: Gary E. Johnson
- Narrated by: Gary E. Johnson
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for president and former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, stakes his claim to the very center of the political spectrum. His new audiobook, Common Sense for the Common Good, offers his approach to how a member of a third party, acting as the chief arbiter of the US, can restore sanity and functionality to the highest office in the land.
-
-
A refreshing voice in politics.
- By Jason on 10-20-16
By: Gary E. Johnson
-
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
- By: Al Franken
- Narrated by: Al Franken
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.
-
-
I Fell In Love This Week with Al Franken
- By constructivefeedback on 06-08-17
By: Al Franken
-
This Fight Is Our Fight
- The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
- By: Elizabeth Warren
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Warren
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The fiery US senator from Massachusetts and best-selling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it.
-
-
An angry rant, not that informative
- By Havi Wingfield on 05-09-17
By: Elizabeth Warren
-
America's Bitter Pill
- Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
- By: Steven Brill
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare.
-
-
Great history, questionable solutions
- By Andrew S. Breza on 01-14-15
By: Steven Brill
-
Arguing with Idiots
- How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
- By: Glenn Beck
- Narrated by: Glenn Beck, Pat Gray, Steve "Stu" Burguiere
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Idiots can't be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper-sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.
-
-
Great Book
- By Stacy on 09-22-09
By: Glenn Beck
-
Great Again
- How to Fix Our Crippled America
- By: Donald J. Trump
- Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell, Donald J. Trump - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this book (previously published as Crippled America), we're going to look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess, and that's putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them?
-
-
Must read/listen for everyone!!!!!!
- By Mark on 07-15-16
By: Donald J. Trump
-
Common Sense for the Common Good
- Libertarianism as the End of Two-Party Tyranny
- By: Gary E. Johnson
- Narrated by: Gary E. Johnson
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for president and former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, stakes his claim to the very center of the political spectrum. His new audiobook, Common Sense for the Common Good, offers his approach to how a member of a third party, acting as the chief arbiter of the US, can restore sanity and functionality to the highest office in the land.
-
-
A refreshing voice in politics.
- By Jason on 10-20-16
By: Gary E. Johnson
-
The Price of Politics
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government's fiscal condition over three and one half years. The Price of Politics addresses the key issue of the presidential and congressional campaigns: the condition of the American economy.
-
-
Making the Sausage
- By Graham on 10-18-12
By: Bob Woodward
-
Armageddon
- How Trump Can Beat Hillary
- By: Dick Morris, Eileen McGann
- Narrated by: Ian Patterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Timed for the critical presidential election season, New York Times best-selling author and noted political commentator Dick Morris provides a strategy and position on the issues for Republicans to attract crucial new voters to the party in order to win back the White House in 2016 and put an end to the Obama agenda of ruinous socialism. By using new issues, attracting new voters, and offering new alternatives, Republicans can win the election of 2016 and save America!
-
-
Informative and practical a must read
- By quentin on 06-30-16
By: Dick Morris, and others
-
It's Even Worse Than You Think
- What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America
- By: David Cay Johnston
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
No working journalist knows Donald Trump better than David Cay Johnston, who first met the 45th president in 1988 and has tracked him ever since. Featuring Johnston's renowned skill in bringing government policy to life, this crucial book explains how our daily lives will be affected by the actions of the Trump Administration. This book is essential listening for all Americans.
-
-
An important look at America under Trump
- By Elisabeth Carey on 01-24-18
-
Somebody's Gotta Say It
- By: Neal Boortz
- Narrated by: Neal Boortz
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
With its outrageous brand of conservative talk, The Neal Boortz Show has been one of talk radio's hottest commodities for more than 25 years. Boortz entertains his rabid followers with commentary on everything from corruption in Washington to the troops overseas. Now, with Somebody's Gotta Say It, Neal gives us his greatest jeremiad yet: a hilarious but serious-as-taxes screed covering all the issues that get Neal and his millions of listeners hot under the collar on a daily basis.
-
-
For the Logical not the Emotional.
- By Jon on 03-16-07
By: Neal Boortz
-
Unintimidated
- A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge
- By: Scott Walker, Marc Thiessen
- Narrated by: Scott Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In 2010, Scott Walker was elected governor of Wisconsin with a mandate to improve its economy and restore fiscal responsibility. With the state facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, he proposed a series of reforms to limit the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, which was costing taxpayers billions in pension and health care costs. The reaction was swift and severe. Angry protesters gathered outside the capitol, teacher unions accused him of sabotaging education, and the media descended on Wisconsin to make it a national controversy.
-
-
Inspiring
- By Paul Berning on 06-05-21
By: Scott Walker, and others
-
The Fixer
- My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics
- By: Bradley Tusk
- Narrated by: Bradley Tusk
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Most new startups today are in highly regulated industries with strong incumbents - transportation, hotels, drones, energy, gaming, education, health care, cannabis, finance, liquor, insurance. The more startups try to snatch a piece of the establishment's pie, the more they risk running into a political wall. That's where Bradley Tusk comes in. As Tusk writes, "Every new company is essentially a tech startup. And when you disrupt someone in any industry, they don't say thank you. They punch you in the nose.
-
-
This book aged poorly
- By Kyle on 10-22-22
By: Bradley Tusk
-
Bailout
- An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
- By: Neil Barofsky
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials—from both parties—served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public. From his first day on the job as the special inspector general in charge of overseeing the distribution of the bailout money, Neil Barofsky found that the officials at the Treasury Department in charge of the bailouts were in thrall to the interests of the big banks.
-
-
Every American Should Read This
- By aaron on 08-05-12
By: Neil Barofsky
-
Class Warfare
- Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
- By: Steven Brill
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.
-
-
Unions are Evil
- By Elton on 09-16-11
By: Steven Brill
-
Act of Congress
- How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
- By: Robert G. Kaiser
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works - and doesn’t - that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008. The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave it the most power. When Congress is broken - as its justifiably dismal approval ratings suggest - so is our democracy.
-
-
insightful, and eye opening.
- By A&K Schneider on 10-21-17
By: Robert G. Kaiser
-
The Center Holds
- Obama and His Enemies
- By: Jonathan Alter
- Narrated by: Jonathan Alter
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Jonathan Alter uses his unmatched access and deep knowledge of politics and history to produce the first full account of America at the crossroads. He pierces the bubble of the White House and of the presidential campaigns with exclusive reporting and rare historical insight. More than a campaign book, this is the epic story of an embattled president facing a historic moment he considered more pivotal than 2008.
-
-
The Best Telling of the 2012 Campaign So Far
- By Mike on 06-11-13
By: Jonathan Alter
-
So Damn Much Money
- The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
- By: Robert G. Kaiser
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In this sometimes shocking and always riveting book, Robert G. Kaiser who has covered Congress, the White House and national politics for The Washington Post since 1963, explains how and why over the last four decades, Washington became a dysfunctional capital.
-
-
Essential knowledge
- By Fernando on 06-06-16
By: Robert G. Kaiser
-
Who Let the Dogs In?
- Incredible Political Animals I Have Known
- By: Molly Ivins
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The dazzling, inimitable Molly Ivins is back with a new collection of withering and hilarious pieces on the worst politics has to offer. This audiobook features a rogue's gallery of politicians: everyone from George W. Bush and the Democratic presidential contenders to Arnold Schwarzenegger. This career retrospective contains Ivins's funniest, most outrageous (and outraged) work on "the best of the worst", in a volume sure to delight those on the left and infuriate the right.
-
-
Amusing and thought-provoking
- By Renee on 09-03-04
By: Molly Ivins