DuPage Co. (ECWd) - As promised, Part II of the McGuire meltdown in her letter to HLC, but please read Part 1 first (Part III here). "At absolutely no point was Vice Chair Mazzochi willing to consider supporting one of our agendas" Untrue, as Mazzochi published...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) – Grab a chair, a drink of your desire, and prepare to be amazed by the actions of a lone "rogue" trustee who appears to be on a mission to scuttle accreditation at COD. Due to the volume of information, we will break...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Read Part 1 by clicking here We left off with the Board Policies that directly affected obligations of Officers of the Board of Trustees. Now we must look at how these Board policies work together. The officers are selected at an annual organizational...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Why would a fired law firm, Community College Association, and the Illinois Community College Board Executive Director provide bad advice to a COD Administrator and Trustee? Were money and power the driving force? As the College of DuPage (COD) has painfully learned from...
Elgin, IL (ECWd) - If you want to keep things simple and ensure personal agendas, politics, and ideology is not part of the equation when it comes to actions by our elected officials, stick to Dillon's Rule. If we have said it once we have...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - State Representative Jeanne Ives has been leading the charge in the House of Representatives pertaining to Auditor General Frank Mautino's campaign expenditure reporting and calls for his resignation in her press release, which was released shortly after numerous legislators called for...
Illinois -(ECWd) - A group of Illinois State Legislators held a press conference at the Thomson Center today calling for Auditor General Frank Mautino to step aside during the Federal Investigation into his campaign spending irregularities that included loan payments for non-existent loans and car repairs...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Former College of DuPage attorney Res Vazquez, continues to provide legal advice to Diane McGuire. As reported initially in this article, Vazquez provided instructions to a public official, COD Board member Dianne McGuire, to destroy an email. We are still waiting on...
Ottawa - (ECWd) - LaSalle County State's Attorney Brian Towne is fighting for his future all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court, even though the Circuit Court and the 3rd Appellate Court ruled against his actions. Those actions in relation to his publicly reported statements are...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We suspect Federal and State Authorities will take great interest in the e-mail exchange that took place between Respicio Vazquez of Franczek Radelet, and Dianne McGuire, College of DuPage Board Trustee. In February of 2015, a flurry of Grand Jury subpoenas from State...
