Earlier this week, McHenry County Blog re-printed academician Richard Vedder’s comments on how McHenry County College’s push for a minor league baseball stadium might be a leading indicator that community colleges were losing their way. Today begins a two-part series … Continue reading
Category Archives: Minor League Baseball
Amazing the people who read McHenry County Blog. Every once in a while, someone gets in contact with some really interesting information. That’s how I scooped everyone on the planned minor league baseball stadium in Harvard. Recently I received an … Continue reading
Amazing the people who read McHenry County Blog. Every once in a while, someone gets in contact with some really interesting information. That’s how I scooped everyone on the planned minor league baseball stadium in Harvard. Recently I received an … Continue reading
College officials seem convinced that a minor league baseball stadium will generate two-thirds of the revenue to pay back $35 million in debt that its board is about to impose upon us taxpayers. Without a referendum. But MCC officials won’t … Continue reading
College officials seem convinced that a minor league baseball stadium will generate two-thirds of the revenue to pay back $35 million in debt that its board is about to impose upon us taxpayers. Without a referendum. But MCC officials won’t … Continue reading
OK, I teased you yesterday about what the McHenry County College Board voted on April 26th, but which they refused to give me before the board meeting or for the 14th day thereafter. Here’s what the board members approved in … Continue reading
OK, I teased you yesterday about what the McHenry County College Board voted on April 26th, but which they refused to give me before the board meeting or for the 14th day thereafter. Here’s what the board members approved in … Continue reading
Well, it’s two weeks after the McHenry County College Board meeting that authorized the building of a baseball stadium without any serious public deliberation. The afternoon of the April 26th board meeting, the MCC’s president’s office refused me a copy … Continue reading
Well, it’s two weeks after the McHenry County College Board meeting that authorized the building of a baseball stadium without any serious public deliberation. The afternoon of the April 26th board meeting, the MCC’s president’s office refused me a copy … Continue reading
Let’s see. It was Thursday, April 26th, when I filed a Freedom of Information request for the report on which the MCC Board voted unanimously to give baseball stadium developers a no bid contract. It’s a good thing I am … Continue reading
Let’s see. It was Thursday, April 26th, when I filed a Freedom of Information request for the report on which the MCC Board voted unanimously to give baseball stadium developers a no bid contract. It’s a good thing I am … Continue reading
When I saw the following in Tim Kane’s Chicago Tribune article about McHenry County College’s approval without allowing informed public debate—let alone competition–on a new minor league baseball stadium, I said, “Ah, ha.” Read this and tell me what would … Continue reading
When I saw the following in Tim Kane’s Chicago Tribune article about McHenry County College’s approval without allowing informed public debate—let alone competition–on a new minor league baseball stadium, I said, “Ah, ha.” Read this and tell me what would … Continue reading
Don’t miss last night’s article about the long-in-the-works, privately financed minor league baseball stadium in Harvard, which would most likely die if McHenry County College approves its tax-subsidized baseball stadium at the MCC Board meeting tonight at 7. … Continue reading
Don’t miss last night’s article about the long-in-the-works, privately financed minor league baseball stadium in Harvard, which would most likely die if McHenry County College approves its tax-subsidized baseball stadium at the MCC Board meeting tonight at 7. … Continue reading
I thought there was something very wrong when I first found this clause in a $70,000 McHenry County College contract: “At the completion of the feasibility study and independent review, if the College elects to proceed with the project, the … Continue reading
I thought there was something very wrong when I first found this clause in a $70,000 McHenry County College contract: “At the completion of the feasibility study and independent review, if the College elects to proceed with the project, the … Continue reading
Maybe my little call to the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office this morning did some good. When I checked at 1:17 this afternoon, after doing some shopping and getting some family and cat pictures printed, I found last night’s McHenry … Continue reading
Maybe my little call to the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office this morning did some good. When I checked at 1:17 this afternoon, after doing some shopping and getting some family and cat pictures printed, I found last night’s McHenry … Continue reading
Ever hopeful that McHenry County College Board trustees may trust the pubic enough to tell us lowly taxpayers how they think they can build a minor league baseball stadium, I went to see if it had been placed on the … Continue reading