College of DuPage (ECWd) - Watchdogs comment on Jeff Crowell's public comment from the Feb 3rd College of DuPage Board of Trustees meeting. Having fun...
CLARK CO., IL. (ECWd) - New tactics of public officials (and former officials) travels fast, even if they have no merit. As some of you may remember, Edgar County Board Member Charles Michael Heltsley tried to keep a citizen and taxpayer from attending public meetings by filing...
Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - Residents of the Village of Tinley Park (a suburb southwest of Chicago) are up in arms and are revolting against the Village Board for attempting to sneak in a low income housing project into the community that angry homeowners believe will...
DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) – Local Sycamore attorney Nicholas Cronauer represents Vantage Electrical group against a former employee whom allegedly stole data from their company. Mr. Cronauer hired forensic expert Andy Garrett of Garrett Discovery whom testified regarding the data theft in a hearing held in Dekalb...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Over the past several days, many people have asked why Charles Mike Helstsley would have written such a letter to the so-called editor of the Prairie Press. He went from claiming everything the county board did was lawful (LOL), to being proud of...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - With all the media reports of alleged improper campaign spending by Frank Mautino, I decided to look at the Sponsors of joint resolution appointing him as Illinois Auditor General. Why haven't these Legislators spoken out and encouraged Mautino to come clean on his...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The three boycotting trustees, known for boycotting both previous meetings they have called, decided to call for another special meeting of the College of DuPage Board of Trustees for 5:30 p.m., February 3, 2016. The question is will they actually show up, or...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - We left off with the "Proud to be a Good Ole Boy" and "Your County Board is not stealing from you" articles. Now we will discuss Edgar County Board Member Mike Helsley's recent self-projected envy of honorable service, through a so-called "newspaper". Here is the...
LERNA, IL. (ECWd) - Don Pearcy, the unofficial now-former Village of Lerna President (maybe), tendered his "conditional resignation in a Special Meeting today, January 31, 2016. The problem is that the term of his "conditional" resignation resulted in the village trustees violating the Illinois Municipal Code due...
DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) - Between January 2014 and February 2015, of the approximately $36.000.00 of p-card (credit card) expenditures from one Northern Illinois University p-card account, around $19,000.00 was travel. -- $1,900.00 of this was for Magaly Rodrigues, NIU's "Chief Inspiration Officer", who would not qualify since she was commuting...
