Arrogance at its finest! Mayor Craig Smith, who also happens to be a local attorney at law, might consider reading the Open Meetings Statute to better understand it since its clear after several confirmed violations of that act by his clients (Edgar County ETSB) he still...
The Administrator of the Edgar County Health Department, Eddy McFarland, and "his girlfriend" (not my words...
The ECWD have, for MONTHS, continued to demand that audits be completed as required, with the Edgar County Board refusing to comply with the law. (30 ILCS 5/) Illinois State Auditing Act. 1. Statute requires that the County Board shall cause an audit of all funds and accounts...
Video of the Dec 14, 2011 Edgar County Board Meeting is below. I find it quite telling, the lengths that our county board will go to in order to prevent an audit of the ETS Board. This particular entity of the county government has not been...
The City of Paris has adopted an ordinance limiting the number of refuse haulers in the city to three. They have also imposed a $250 fee for the license, plus $50 for each additional refuse vehicle. This is all about "control" and nothing more. Control by...
Excellent article on the website for the Offices of the United States Attorneys by Patrick Fitzgerald U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois http://www.justice.gov/usao/briefing_room/fin/corruption.html Please read the article referenced above, he makes some great points - especially "The Culture of Acceptance". Some of his key points are: - There are...
 The Distric 95 Board of Education meeting was held on Dec 5, 2011. Video (thanks to the school district) is below Chuck's comments.  "At the December 5, 2011, meeting of the Paris District School Board I learned that nothing further had been done concerning consolidation. Tom Davis,...
Below is the complete video (minus the tape change) of the Edgar County ETSB Meeting held on Dec 5, 2011. Â ...
The following is an article on Blago, but one only needs to replace "Illinois" with  "enter your local government name here" and you will swear he was reading our minds when writing this. In either case, we can all demand accountability in our local government.  =========================== Quoted from the end of this...
From the Huffington Post report: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-conroy/randy-steidl-settlement-wrongful-conviction_b_1123730.html?ref=chicago  John Conroy Senior investigator, Better Government Association; Author, 'Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture' We Must Insist on Accountability for Wrongful Convictions Posted: 12/ 1/11 02:21 PM ET  Former death row inmate Randy Steidl, sentenced to die for the 1986 murders of Dyke...
