Beyond Decker

So the website of Wave 3 news, an NBC affiliate way out in Louisville, has a story on its Website that Bill Weld might want to read. The web site reports that FBI investigators are checking out a trade school (ring a bell?) owned by two brothers, Jeffrey and Gerald Woodcox. This school Read More

In Today’s Observer

Jason examines Mike’s resurrection of the very dead commuter tax. Is this an act of mayoral vengeance against Shelly Silver, who killed the tax and the mayor’s ambitious stadium plan? Whether Mike gets it or not (probably not), wonks wonder whether the Mayor’s move is an opening salvo in a new, aggressive stance towards Read More

The Wages of Weld

Jess reported the other day that Bill Weld’s salary at Decker College was said to be $750,000; today in the Times, Weld pegs it at $700,000.

In either case, that would make Weld among America’s best-paid college presidents, earning more than Columbia’s Lee Bollinger ($638,250). An executive who makes $724,604 is the Read More

Weld’s Exposure

There’s been some question about how directly Bill Weld is affected by the Decker College case that has been advancing incrementally, most recently here, in recent months.

Weld was the school’s acting chief executive in 2003 and 2004, according an account published in the Louisville Courier-Journal, which quoted another Decker Read More

Weld’s Exposure

There’s been some question about how directly Bill Weld is affected by the Decker College case that has been advancing incrementally, most recently here, in recent months.

Weld was the school’s acting chief executive in 2003 and 2004, according an account published in the Louisville Courier-Journal, which quoted another Decker Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Weld’s Kentucky Accusers

A pair of former executives from a for-profit trade school in Kentucky that is under federal investigation are accusing Republican gubernatorial candidate William Weld of playing larger a role in the school’s collapse than the candidate has acknowledged. Weld was the chief executive at the school, Decker College, until last month, when he Read More