SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - During routine COVID testing today a member of the Governor’s Office staff tested positive for COVID-19. This employee was NOT in close contact with the Governor today or in previous days. All staff members identified as a close contact will follow CDC...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - We recently wrote about the censorship Danville Mayor Rickey Williams initiated during Danville's April 6, 2021, Council meeting. Prior Restraint (telling someone they cannot say or print something in advance of publication or speech) is never a good idea and is frowned upon...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Vermilion County Airport Authority Commissioner Steve Foster updated the Danville City Council on the Airport Authority, why he resigned from that office in August of 2018 (essentially admitting to what we wrote in our articles), certain disqualifications for that office, property taxes...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During the April 6, 2021 Danville City Council meeting, Mayor Rickey Williams lied to the public about Christopher Hansen prior to reading only the parts of Hansen's comment that Williams thought the public had a right to hear, damn the First Amendment...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During the April 6, 2021, Danville, Illinois City Council Meeting, Mayor Rickey Williams, Jr., started public comment by lying about Christopher Hansen, the person who submitted a public comment to be read at the meeting. Danville's unreasonable public comment rule of submitting your...
Ashmore, IL. (ECWd) - Just inside the Coles County line, between Ashmore and Kansas, was an accident around 10 p.m. last night. It appears a vehicle hit a guardrail. We saw this on our way back from the Shelby County Board meeting. ...
DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - DuPage Township's Human Resources employee, Amy A., submitted her resignation to DuPage Township officials this morning. She stated she her final date of employment was flexible to permit the township to find a replacement and to ensure a smooth transition....
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - A Petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court for Leave to Appeal from the Illinois Appellate Court yesterday. This is the lawsuit involving the City of Carlinville, another municipality, and a private company, opening up another private company for the purposes of contracting from the...
Southlake, TX. (ECWd) - FOX4-KDFW is reporting that two Carroll ISD School Board Trustees were indicted by a grand jury and arrested for violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. They are accused of circumventing the TOMA by "communicating in a quorum" outside of an open meeting through...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Last month, after submitting a public records request, we received the disciplinary records of Paris Police Sergeant Phillip Kohlenberg, who was disciplined without formal adjudication, demoted to Patrolman and given 5 days off without pay. On October 28, 2020, Kohlenberg was placed on...
