ZDNet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Outgoing media advisor to Minister of Communications Stephen Conroy, Tim Marshall, will be taking up a role with NBN Co chief Mike Quigley's former employer, Alcatel-Lucent.
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
by Joe Calomino, State Director Americans for Prosperity Last weekend, Representatives, Bobby Rush (IL District 1); Jesse Jackson (IL District 2); Daniel Lipinski (IL District 3); Luis Gutierrez (IL District 4); Mike Quigley (IL District 5); Danny Davis (IL District...
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Having filled many of the top tier positions reporting directly to executive chairman Mike Quigley, the NBN Company has embarked on a broad campaign to fill the next layer of...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Photo by *April* While we've been busy watching just a few of the many fine films screened at Reeling this year, a mighty lot of gay-centric news has come across our desk. Consider this little round-up a crash course in the past two weeks in the world of LGBT Chicago, headlined by a gay couple that now faces perhaps the most far-reaching denial of equal rights in our modern world: A lifetime ban from...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, who vehemently opposes legislation to reduce the number of votes needed to override his vetoes, supported the exact same measure before he was board president, Capitol Fax's Rich Miller reports . A document saved by Rep. John Fritchey from a 2006 campaign he and former County Commissioner Mike Quigley waged to get the override threshold lowered broadcasts then-Ald....
ZDNet (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it - Telstra - and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., made his reputation in Chicago politics as the guy who wouldn't go along to get along. As a Cook County Board member, he got in the face of regular Democrats. He spent a decade in that office championing reform, battling the corruption and cronyism that plagues Cook County government. He often embarrassed -- and enraged -- his fellow Democrats.
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been pointing out that the Countrywide scandal is far from a closed case despite attempts by apologists for Democrat Senators Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd to close the book on the matter after the Senate Ethics Committee’s “investigation.” And by “investigation” I mean the letter they issued clearing Conrad and Dodd of any wrong-doing...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
It looks like Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has won a couple of key allies in his creative campaign to make Oversight Committee Chairman Ed Towns subpoena potentially damaging records from defunct mortgage lender Countrywide. Those would be Towns’ Democratic allies, 2nd term Rep. Paul Hodes of New Hampshire and Mike Quigley of Illinois, who won Rahm Emanuel’s seat in April. Towns has resisted...
The Whig (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Good for them. Interesting that two new Congressmen are the ones pushing ethics. There is probably a law that the longer they remain in Congress, the less interested politicians are in ethics. An equation for an inverse relationship, like y=a/x. Two Democrats buck Rep. Towns, call for Countrywide VIP mortgage probe Two junior Democrats are urging their leaders to open an investigation into the Countrywide...
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
NBN Company executive chairman Mike Quigley has both the authority and capacity to acquire assets related to a national broadband network now, even before the Government's implementation study is completed...
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
If you recall, a few days ago Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee, said that he would bring to a vote a subpoena request for Countrywide documents. It's old news from months ago that the Chairman, Edolphus Towns (D-NY) has said that he would not support it even though his name has been linked to sweetheart deals. So today comes. The hearing is set. Issa...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has tried, and failed, several times to roll back the 10.25 percent county-wide sales tax. Yesterday, the Illinois General Assembly took a swing at it, as well. The legislation, which would have cut the sales tax from 1.75 percent to .75 percent, fell six votes short of passage. "This is going to really devastate all aspects of our government," Todd...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Two must listen interviews this week. U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley talks about handguns, hockey and Chicago politics. Chicago's Bra Guy, Oz du Soleil, enlightens us...
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The NBN Company says it won’t have a headquarters operation in the traditional sense, but that hasn’t stopped executive chairman Mike Quigley renting a place to hang his...
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