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$44,256 to check email? Feds balk in case tied to Daley son

March 4, 2013
Chicago Sun-Times

By TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter

A big Chicago law firm is demanding $44,256 for a search of emails that a federal agency wanted in a case involving Cardinal Growth, a venture capital firm tied to former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son, Patrick Daley.

The U.S. Small Business Administration says taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay, and it’s fighting the bill in federal court.

The agency seized Cardinal Growth in 2011 over $21.4 million in unpaid loans the Chicago fund got from the SBA to invest in several businesses.

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Kildeer District 96's $4,281 board meeting with $7 sodas

December 26, 2012
Daily Herald

Strap on your bibs: It's time for another serving of watchdog kibble.

This is a collection of mini-investigations, updates and morsels of information, many of them generated by readers' tips.

This helping focuses on a Buffalo Grove-based school district's nearly $4,300 board meeting last month in Chicago, accolades for citizens fighting for better government transparency, updates on legislation inspired by previous investigations, and the latest on the internal power struggle at the Illinois Municipal League.

Seven-dollar sodas

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Disorderly conduct charges dropped against SWIC student

July 26, 2012
Belleville News Democrat

By BETH HUNDSDORFER 

When the Southwestern Illinois College police officers arrested Brad VanHoose in the college's library as he studied for a test last spring, he said it was the most humiliating experience of his life.

"Those kids were laughing at me as the cops walked me out,

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A Georgia Town Takes the People's Business Private

June 23, 2012
New York Times
By DAVID SEGAL
 
 
IF your image of a city hall involves a venerable building, so

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Study still shows massive FOIA noncompliance

June 17, 2012
Northwest Herald
By KEVIN P. CRAVER 
 
 
It took Ed Mrkvicka Jr.

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Emanuel's trust win shows he's firmly in control

April 24, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Hal Dardick, Kristen Mack and John Byrne

The new face of Chicago-style democracy was on display Tuesday as aldermen handed Mayor Rahm Emanuel his expected lopsided win on a c

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Review: DuPage Election Commission needs to improve disclosure, ethics and procurement, make meetings more accessible

April 24, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Bob Goldsborough

The bipartisan DuPage Election Commission needs to improve its disclosure, ethics and procurement practices — and make its meetings more accessible, ac

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Meet The Media Companies Lobbying Against Transparency

April 20, 2012
Pro-Publica
By Justin Elliott
 
News organizations cultivate a reputation for demanding transparency, whether by suing for access to government

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Emanuel to push for trust on projects: Plea for public works authority short on details

March 9, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Kristen Mack and Hal Dardick

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to ask aldermen next week to consider giving him broad authority to try a new way to pay for big-ticket projec

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