GEORGETOWN, IL. (ECWd) - Two former City of Georgetown employees filed suit in Federal Court in Urbana against the City, the trustees and the mayor claiming wrongful termination, employment discrimination, civil rights violations. The Mayor apparently fired the two employees and then turned around and hired her...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - A ceremony in honor of Edgar County Deputy John D. Landrum, who died in the line of duty while responding to a domestic disturbance on February 15, 1989, was held to day at the Edgar County Courthouse. -Edgar County Sheriff Edward Motley permanently...
MATTOON, IL. (ECWd) - This is a common situation that we discover time and time again in nearly every public body we look at. We saw this in: -DeWitt County Probation Office (here), -Arcola Township (here), -Edgar County Housing Authority (here), -Edgar County ETSB, -Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department, -Effingham County Public Health Department, -East...
FANTASYLAND - (ECWd) - That's right, Mr. Blazier, the attorney for Invenergy's California Ridge Wind Farm, stated during a recent Vermilion County Board meeting that "these things are designed to fall straight down if they break off". Mr. Donahue, Vermilion County's Assistant State's Attorney, has stated that...
FT. HOOD, TX. (ECWd) - Author: Joshua Lawton Cattle rustlers aren’t the only thieves in Texas. You see, I had come to Texas, not because I wanted to, but because my property had been stolen. Since March 2014, my property management company RE/MAX Platinum Real Estate, had...
NEBRASKA (ECWd) - . This time Invenergy's blade failure happened April 21st in Nebraska.  Invenergy can't seem to keep these GE manufactured turbines from falling apart and crashing down into the ground below.  So far, two of these same type of blade failures have occurred in Invenergy's "turbine...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - We recently received a letter received from a Divisions Director of a Memorial Hospital takes a shot at an article written touting the grand benefits of wind turbines mitigating the effects of climate change. I have redacted the name of the hospital and...
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - The case of the Edgar County Sheriff's (Ed Motley) v. Roger Hopper and Dee Burgin was called in court today. If you can remember back to last year, this case came about after an arbitrator ruled in their favor. The Sheriff did...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Will they ever learn? That is the million dollar question. On April 12, 2014, I submitted a Freedom Of Information Act request to the Township of Arcola requesting the following public records (pdf here): Copy of all bid notices, requests for bids, requests for...
By Chris Butler | Tennessee Watchdog NASHVILLE — Sick of people calling you nothing more than a two-bit scam artist? Well, silly, why haven’t you applied for a job as a public servant in one of Tennessee’s small towns or cities? You’ll have access to money beyond your wildest...
