OnLight Aurora, a city-supported nonprofit, aims to provide high speed internet to the west suburban community’s institutions, businesses and residents. It’s also in massive debt, with a long history of questionable expenditures. Then-Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin signed a letter saying that the city would guarantee a $450,000 credit line increase for OnLight.
The miss management is bad, but the bigger waste is the concept of building a competing carrier level internet and telecom service to compete with A&T, Comcast, etc. A number of months ago, there was a Public meeting at the Aurora City Hall. That meeting included religious leaders, non profits, The State of Illinois, Kane, Dupage and Will County elected officials, various internet and telecom service carriers and others from the Aurora Community. They had a box lunch – it was nice. The IT manager for the City got up there and proceeded to explain how Aurora was building their… Read more »
Last edited 6 months ago by daskoterzar
David F
6 months ago
Democrat see, Democrat do….
Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
6 months ago
Nearly $70,000 on entertainment and meals, including more than $7,000 at strip clubs in the Chicago area, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami and Pompano Beach, Florida;
Did they make it RAIN at the strip clubs like all the thieves do?
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
The miss management is bad, but the bigger waste is the concept of building a competing carrier level internet and telecom service to compete with A&T, Comcast, etc. A number of months ago, there was a Public meeting at the Aurora City Hall. That meeting included religious leaders, non profits, The State of Illinois, Kane, Dupage and Will County elected officials, various internet and telecom service carriers and others from the Aurora Community. They had a box lunch – it was nice. The IT manager for the City got up there and proceeded to explain how Aurora was building their… Read more »
Democrat see, Democrat do….
Did they make it RAIN at the strip clubs like all the thieves do?