Ray Hanania on politics podcast: A great public servant, Maria Pappas

Former Chicago City Hall reporter and award-winning syndicated columnist Ray Hanania looks at Maria Pappas, one of the rarest and most honest politicians and public servants in Illinois.

There are only a few, but she is at the top of the list. She tells you exactly what needs to be said, not what makes you feel good or makes her look good.

We all know Pappas’ career in politics, serving as a Cook County Commissioner and then later becoming the Cook County Treasurer, where she has saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

But few know Maria’s personal life and the events as a child, a teenager, and a young woman that impacted and defined her dedication to honesty and helping people.

Ray Hanania has known Maria since 1990, when she was first elected and when he served as the Chicago City Hall reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, and he offers this perspective on Maria and her new memoir, which she just released, “Maria the Pappas.”

You can get more information on the memoir by visiting the book webpage MariathePappas.com or by ordering it from Amazon.com. (Search “Maria the Pappas.”)

My podcast on Maria Pappas and her new memoir “Maria the Pappas” … get information at MariathePappas.com … watch the video and my podcast commentary here.

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Read Ray Hanania’s recent column on the memoir and on Maria Pappas, published in the Regional News, Des Plaines Valley News, and Southwest News newspaper group, and on his Substack column at CourageousThought.com.

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Ray Hanania is an award-winning opinion columnist, author & former Chicago City Hall reporter (1977-1992). A veteran who served during the Vietnam War and the recipient of four SPJ Peter Lisagor Awards for column writing, Hanania writes weekly opinion columns on mainstream American & Chicagoland topics for the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, the Regional News, The Reporter Newspapers, and Suburban Chicagoland.

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Hanania also writes about Middle East issues for the Arab News, and The Arab Daily News criticizing government policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hanania was named "Best Ethnic American Columnist" by the New America Media in November 2007, and is the 2009 recipient of the SPJ National Sigma Delta Chi Award for column writing.

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