Dan Weissmann

If there’s no state budget, where do tax dollars go? Strange-but-true answers from the Illinois budget impasse.
	Old King Coal A princess, a miner, and a movement to stop the war on coal.
How billiards created the modern world One word: Plastics. For 99 Percent Invisible.
	How screwed is Chicago, really? Will it become a second Detroit? For Marketplace
Corn economics and world hunger. Our biggest crop? Not a foodstuff. For Marketplace.
	Reversal of fortune: Saving Chicago from its own poop. When a river isn’t a river. For 99 Percent Invisible.
Why are ketchup packets tiny and awful? Admit it: You hate them. Here’s why. For Marketplace
	Where did Chicago’s old-school donut shops go? And: In search of the city’s best. For WBEZ’s Curious City.
Want to see Chicago’s segregation? Ride the El. And: Take a time-lapse. For WBEZ.
	Why you can’t help paying four bucks for a latte A neuro-economist explains. For WBEZ.
The MCC: Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper For 99 Percent Invisible.
	Miami condo-buyers aren’t homeowners. They’re traders. Climate risk? Not remotely their issue. Marketplace
Police don’t ask: Why are we getting sued? So: They keep doing the things that provoke lawsuits. Marketplace
	In foreclosure crisis, maintenance firms cleaned up Still, this Chicago firm also lost business. For WBEZ.
Could I build a robot to go to meetings? I’d free up time, and get rich selling them. For WBEZ.
	Are Blacks locked out of the legal weed business? “Big weed” isn’t an equal-opportunity… opportunity. For NPR’s Morning Edition.