Sitemap - 2024 - Tom Tresser's "CivicNotes" Substack

What Now?

Weeping at The Museum of the American Revolution

Chicago 2025 Budget Passed – It’s TIF Spackle Time (Again)

Tools For Engagement & Change

Tom’s Time Machine – GCCA Rally 1991

The Playbook: How to Organize & Stop Megaprojects

No Games Book Gets Some Love from Don Rose

America’s Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness

America’s Nonprofit Sector – Stop Whining!

What Happened, Part 2

What Happened?

Massive Civic Trauma

Telling the No Games Chicago Story

Mayor Wants 4% Bump In Our Property Taxes

Join Tom at Two Community Meetings

A Lot of People Have Cancelled Washington Post Subscriptions

I Just Cancelled My Subscription To The Washington Post

Who Is Paying To Turn America Fascist?

Billionaires Piling On for New Stadiums

Civic Federation Calls for Cutbacks & More Regressive Fees

Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools Catch Up With the TIF Illumination Project

Heading to Portland for “Public Money 101’

It’s Not Too late to Thank No Games Chicago!

New Neighborhood Coalition Opposes New Bears Stadium

Today is National Voter Registration Day

TIF Tussle in Pilsen

Hey, Bears, Figure This Out – No Public Nothing For You

It’s Chicago Budget Time Again!

Celebrating TIF Fighters

Feeling the Joy?

Tom’s Book on No Games Chicago Now Available!

Chicago 2023 TIF Report

2023 TIF Report Now Available

Tom Says No More BSS

Paris Olympics Start Next Week

Listen to Bernie

July 4, 2024

Right Wing Supreme Court Declares Trump a King Beyond the Law

Biden v. Trump 2024

What Does “Public” Owe the Public

I LOVE North Avenue Beach!

News from Tom Tresser

Hitler and Trump – the Reich Stuff

Fighting Fascism Today is the Best Way to Remember Veterans

Mind the Gap

Public Subsidies for Stadiums is Terrible for Taxpayers

We Need More, Great Public!

Arizona Supreme Court Takes Us Back to 1864

“Public 101” – Lifting Up Public!

We Fought Nazis and Dictators and Learned – What?

(Female) Billionaire Wants Seat at (Male) Billionaire Table

Crain’s Chicago Says “Blank Checks” Ony For Big Business

Memo to Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Tim Cook, and the World War II Museum

Listen to These Two Women – One Republican and One Democrat

It’s Up To Us To Save Democracy in America

Public Back Watchers, Now Is Your Time to Step Up

Mayors, Please Show Greedy Team Owners the Door

Olympic Fighters Gather in New Orleans

Metropolitan Planning Council Changes Tune on TIFs

Time To Embrace #MorePublic

Connecting the Dots – Federal $ and Local Restraints

MLK, Jr – Organizing for Economic Justice