Will Co. (ECWd) - It appears the recently appointed Township Clerk, Kulsum Ali, does not understand her duties as Clerk and ignored proper requests for a meeting by two trustees while honoring a later request by two others. Trustee Alyssia Benford informed Clerk Ali that Trustees Benford...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Anna May Miller began working at the Township Road District for her husband in August of 1998 according to records obtained from the Road District. August of 2013 is the fifteen-year mark putting her at an entitlement of four weeks vacation each...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Over fifty Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to Algonquin Township & Road District from the local paper and not a single request for records pertaining to Bob Miller, the former Road District Highway Commissioner. That is based on records provided through an...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Paper trails are like bread crumbs and while the birds may have eaten most of them during this cold snap,(or was it a rag that wiped the computer hard drives?), James Kelly has left one crumb the size of a loaf of...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - As the three-ring circus continues in Algonquin Township, a recent gotcha attempt appears to have backfired for the person raising the issues, but has resulted in positive steps for compliance with the law. Each month for quite some time the Algonquin Township Trustees, particularly...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - It appears from the records, the former Algonquin Township Road District Highway Commissioner Bob Miller was a busy man just prior to departing office. Records reflect there was a flurry of township road district cell phone transfers and phone purchases. It appears at...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Over the past 2 years, we have written about numerous townships and exposed more self-dealing than I thought was possible, and it appears, Plainfield Township is not much different than many of the others as it relates to having problems, but much...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - As promised, the transcript of the recent Union 150 case against the Algonquin Township Road district has arrived and available for download at this link or viewed below. Most telling is the fact it does not contain many of the allegations we heard...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Recent communications with Jon Styf have brought clarity on some issues and considering he said: "feel free to correct your error", let the clarity begin. It all started when the NWH reporter Ed Komenda wrote an article that contained numerous false statements. We...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - While much attention has been devoted by the local media to the legal bills of the Algonquin Township Road District, little has been shared regarding the actual Township legal bills and what is causing James Kelly's bills to be almost equal to the...
