That didn’t take long. Interim President Larry Tyree replacing Interim President Brian Sager replacing the faster-you-get-out-the-door-the-better President Walt Packard has stepped down after a month in office as head of McHenry County College. As the last one standing, Kathleen Plinske, … Continue reading
Niranjan Shah, the former University of Illinois Board Chairman, has a welcome connection to McHenry County. I’m told that former McHenry County College Trustee David Murphy of Cary initiated a $500,000 pledge from Shah to help purchase the college’s Shah … Continue reading
Thursday the Elgin Courier-News and McHenry County’s Northwest Herald both featured junior colleges as a low cost way to go after high school. But what a difference three generous millionaires made in McHenry County—at least for the McHenry County College … Continue reading
It was political pressure that led to the release of baseball promoter buddy Mark Houser’s feasibility report after months and months of secrecy…at the meeting where the board majority censured then-Board President Scott Summers and Donna Kurtz, no less. It … Continue reading
This was going to be a story of praise for the new format of the McHenry County College Board Packet. You can see it above. Click to enlarge. Now there are shortcuts to the various items on the agenda. One … Continue reading
This gymnast’s trampoline back flip you see from my son’s 11th birthday party is nothing compared to the one that the McHenry County College Board Freedom of Information attorney signaled this morning. MCC attorney Joseph Perkowski of the Chicago firm … Continue reading
The Daily Herald doesn’t call it a scandal, but it is. Lenore Adkins has written a story about how gone, but not done gone, ex-McHenry County College President Walt Packard is still being paid what he was when he was … Continue reading
That’s the headline that the Northwest Herald put on a letter from my 90-something friend Julie Covert in Saturday’s paper. I suspect that Julie would have preferred How Dare They! There certainly wasn’t any doubt in her mind when we … Continue reading
A withholder of information while he was McHenry County College president, Walt Packard now wants to share. He has started two blogs: Distance Learning 2.0 – Emerging Technologies that Redefine the Online Classroom and Executive’s Web 2.0 Toolkit. Helping him … Continue reading
The last time such a briefing was held by the McHenry County State’s Attorney Office, the board most in need of hearing the advice, not to mention following the law, the McHenry County College Board board was meeting at the … Continue reading
Last Friday when I read a Northwest story online quoting a statement the college had released about the deal that had been cut with outgoing MCC President Walt Packard, I immediately requested a copy. It finally arrived Wednesday. Not exactly … Continue reading
That wasn’t exactly the title used by Executive Editor of the Northwest Herald, but it’s close. In his Sunday column, mainly about opposition to turning Resurrection Center into retirement condos and the NIMBY opposition, Christ Krug comments on how McHenry … Continue reading
Saturday’s column by Northwest Herald Editor Dan McCaleb started out praising Woodstock for not raising taxes to pay for something planned but not without financing. McCaleb lays that off against Prairie Grove Grade School District 46’s defeated and retiring board … Continue reading
State law was changed to allow it, so that makes it good judgment, I guess. Before Thursday night’s action, the McHenry County College Board required prior approval for all purchases over $5,000. Trust, what a wonderful human characteristic. Checks and … Continue reading
In the “Are You Nuts?” category is Northwest Herald reporter Brett Rowland’s story about last night MCC Board meeting. McHenry County College folks get quite irritated when I call it a “junior” college. Of course, that’s what it was created … Continue reading
The following press release has been issued by McHenry County College’s Board of Trustees: MCHENRY COUNTY COLLEGE PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES [Friday, February 27, 2009] The Board of Trustees of McHenry County College and Dr. Walt Packard … Continue reading
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I requested All communications between BMB, the TV-radio aerial company seeking to buy MCC property, and MCC All reports and memos concerning the proposal All documents not included above which reference the company or … Continue reading
Look at this image closely. (Click to enlarge.) The TV-radio tower being proposed by the McHenry County College Board will be 1,500 feet–taller than the Sears Tower. The Sears Tower is 1,450 feet tall, its web site says. The Eiffel … Continue reading
Look at this image closely. (Click to enlarge.) The TV-radio tower being proposed by the McHenry County College Board will be 1,500 feet–taller than the Sears Tower. The Sears Tower is 1,450 feet tall, its web site says. The Eiffel … Continue reading
At the Monday-before-last meeting of the McHenry County College’s Committee of the Whole, a sheet of paper was passed out with the names of people MCC President Walt Packard suggested be approached to serve on the euphemistically titled “Engagement Facilitating … Continue reading
