ECWd - In an age where people can make choices in almost every aspect of their lives, their hands are still tied when it comes to the education choices for their children. Choice in schools is already here in one form or another; from choosing where you...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - During the Special Meeting last night, the Clark County Park District had three "security" employees present. Normally this would not have been an issue, however, since this is the first meeting after employee Mike Church decided to berate meeting attendees, is...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, Charity Murphy, the Clark County Park District's FOIA Officer decided to redact certain lines from the Park-owned cell phone bill, and to not supply all of the responsive pages of the bills...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - Update: 5-29-2015 - added the audio recording to the bottom of the article. It is about 1 hour and 41 minutes long. Just two days after having to cancel a committee meeting because there were no appointed committee members, the Clark County...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - On May 26, 2015, the Clark County Park District tried to hold a finance committee meeting. The problem was that there were no appointed finance committee members. One of the first items on the agenda was public comment, and I spoke first...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Bridget Bittman, the Orland Park Public Library's public information coordinator, filed what we believe to be a SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuit against critics of the OPPL's history of allowing child pornography to be accessed and other illegal things...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - After the short meeting tonight that was determined to be a meeting of a non-existent finance committee, the Park District's "Security Guard" decided to intimidate those that were in attendance by staring them down as they walked past him. He was in...
More photos were taken of the turbine burning in Livingston County this past weekend and they came from the facebook page of: Rt66 & 17 Illinois Fire Ground Photos Please visit their page to see lots of pictures of this fire and give them a thumbs-up! ...
Mt. Pulaski, IL. (ECWd) - After reading through the proposed "contract" between the Mt. Pulaski Community Unit School No. 23 School Board and Meridien LLC., it is clear this is no ordinary contract. This contract was discussed during the May 2015 school board meeting and is presumed...
Livingston Co., IL. (ECWd) - Update: May 25, 2015, 9:15 a.m.: This is the second Iberdrola Renewables turbine fire in the past 10 days. The previous was on May 14 and was located in the Locust Ridge II Wind Farm near Westboro, IOWA. (news article here). Update: May...
