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...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Representative Brad Halbrook, 110th, is the sponsor on HB 5344, a bill design to strengthen the Freedom Of Information Act to put courts, circuit clerk, probation offices, and state's attorneys subject to FOIA. (WTYE ran a short article here). Background: In 1983, the Local...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - An article published by the Better Government Association(BGA), stated that a top Illinois department of Natural Resources administrator was forced to resign following investigations by the BGA and several news organizations into the fact that he had participated in several out of state...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Edgar County entered into a contract with an auditing firm out of Danville, Illinois by the name of DBH and Associates, 2200-Suite A, Kickapoo Drive, PH: 217-431-0200. This contract was to audit the books of Edgar County for their fiscal year of...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In the past three articles on the false statements Jimmy Wells put into the fuel farm grant justification documents, we discussed false fuel sales numbers, false statements on the size of fuel tanks they are currently pulling Jet-A fuel out of,...
EFFINGHAM CO. (ECWd) - For months now we have been receiving credible tips relating to things going on in the Effingham County Sheriff's office, and by all indications, that place is not much different than what we had here in Edgar County with our former Sheriff,...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - "The Edgar County Airport can no longer keep up with Jet A fuel demands of its based aircraft. The based users regularly use all Jet A in the existing 1,000 gallon tank and are forced to purchase fuel elsewhere." That is the next...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - “The Edgar County Airport is receiving close to $1,000,000.00 for new construction!” That was the statement (or close to it) of the airport board and the airport manager earlier this year. It kind of made us wonder why the federal government would take...
SPRINGFIELD, IL (ECWd) - A civil suit, 13 MR 74, was filed by Kirk Allen in Edgar County Circuit Court against Julie Hamos, Director of Illinois Health and Family Services, and the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services for their alleged improper denial of public...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Timeline of Airport Events – Your Public Officials In Action This is the timeline of events and the actions of (mainly) Chris Patrick, Jimmy Wells, and Adonna Bennett since November of 2012. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture of these public officials (present...
