Douglas, Co. IL. (ECWd) - During the December 16, 2014 hearings on FOIA cases against Arcola Township, I was making the argument that Mr. Petty was not authorized by law to respond to a FOIA requester since he was not an "employee or officer" of the...
Logan County, IL. (ECWd) - reposted from the New Herald News: County Board hears testimony for and mostly against Meridien Wind Park project January 16, 2015 – It was another late night for the Logan County Board as over 100 county residents and other interested persons gathered on the...
VERMILION CO., IL. (ECWd) - A couple weeks ago we wrote an article on a property that lost 56 percent of its value, and we claimed it was due to its proximity to a wind turbine farm (here). At least one person took exception to that statement,...
CLARK CO. (ECWd) - Lisa Thomas, candidate for Clark County Park District Commissioner, has filed an appeal in the Circuit Court of Clark County asking for an administrative review of last week's Clark County Electoral Board decisions on her petition objections. All five of her objections were...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - The FOIA case Allen v. Illinois State Health and Family Services has been appealed to the Appellate Court. This comes after Allen prevailed in Edgar County Circuit Court, and later found additional public records not presented by HFS to the Court. He...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - A Notice of Appeal to the Appellate Court has been filed in the four FOIA suits that were decided in Douglas County on December 16, 2014 (that article here). On January 14, 2015, our attorney file a Notice of Appeal (circuit court docket...
Company’s extreme wind strategy: Towns today, turbines tomorrow Credit:  by Philip Tees | The Copenhagen Post | January 16, 2015 | cphpost.dk ~~ Swedish energy company Vattenfall is going to extreme lengths for the sake of its Danish windfarms – buying up whole villages in rural Denmark, razing them to...
VERMILION CO., IL. (ECWd) - IKEA (the furniture company) and APEX (a wind energy company) failed to make payments to Ambassador Steel Fabrication, LLS from Auburn, Indiana. The failure of IKEA and APEX to make their payments in a timely manner is now causing issues for...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - This video is incredibly interesting to watch. The Clark County, Illinois Electoral Board held petition objection hearings on January 13th to hear the several objections to petitions for Clark County Park District Commissioner. Attorney Mervin Wolfe, Marshall, IL., called Larry Yargus to...
College of DuPage - (ECWd) - In September and October of 2014, and December of 2013, several Freedom of Information Act requests were denied by the College of DuPage FOIA Officer. After several failed attempts at asking them to provide the public records they were bound...
