MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - After all the months of denying, defending, lying, accusing others of "picking on her", and attempts to cling to an elected position that she had no right or authority to possess, Bev Church finally changed her voting address to reflect the truth...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - During the Edgar County Board meeting held on March 11, 2015, I read a prepared statement related to the "false and misleading" statements that Jerry Griffin placed on his job application for the airport manager job (previous article here). Kirk Allen and Robert...
NAPERVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - At some point, public bodies must be held accountable for their actions. Take the Naperville Park District as an example. The Park District Code specifically states that commissioners shall serve without compensation. Does that statement really need further defining or interpretation? According to their...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - My family has a long list of teaching credentials that I believe offer me an interesting perspective, and I felt it worthy of sharing. I regularly provide classroom instruction to Firefighters all over the country, and although that setting is quite different...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Last week Mr. Mark Petty, attorney for the Township of Arcola, submitted a statement to the Arcola newspaper regarding FOIA cases and their appeal. He claims that the appeal was dismissed, which is technically correct, however, he failed to mention that it was...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - In what has turned out to be a continuing struggle for Truth and accountability at the Edgar County Airport, we have recently uncovered more evidence that the current airport manager, Jerry Griffin, deceived the public and the county on his job...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - The recent exposure to businesses operating on campus at COD led to yet another batch of FOIA requests being sent out. The reason behind those FOIA's is explained in part in our last COD Tax Cheat article. (Click here for Tax Cheat...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Great leaders become great because they don't just lead, but they listen! I recall my NCO Leadership school in the Air Force in which I attribute much of my personal success in life to the attributes learned in that course. The...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - Saturday, March 7, 2015 From Safe Libraries: The Orland Park Public Library (link) is the scene of the latest effort by a library to cover up its literally criminal ways, in this case award-winning criminal ways. It did so by having published a...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - CNN has been working on a "Death Row Stories" segment featuring Michale Callahan and Randy Steidl for the past several months. It is scheduled to air this spring. In the past, national media featured the double murder in Paris, Illinois, and the subsequent wrongful...
