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16 Mar Grain Belt Express Clean Line High Voltage Transmission Line permit revoked in 5th Appellate Court decision –

Posted at 17:56h in Clark County, Coles County, Douglas County, Edgar County, feature, Shelby County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

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ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The Illinois Appellate Court, 5th Appellate District, issued an Order which effectively revoked the Illinois Commerce Commission's issuance of a nonpublic utility company's certificate of public conveyance and necessity under the expedited review process set forth in the Illinois Public Utilities Act. Click here...

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16 Mar Tired? Sleep while taxpayers seek justice during the Coles County Property Tax Board of Review Hearing –

Posted at 13:20h in Charleston, Coles County, feature by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 2 Comments

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COLES Co., IL. (ECWd) - What do you do when you are an appointed Coles County Board of Review member charged with hearing property tax objections, and you feel a little sleepy? Simple. Sleep! Is this what taxpayers can expect if the current County Board Chair is re-elected? The...

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16 Mar Sunshine Week: Jasper County School Board earns an “F-“

Posted at 12:15h in feature, Jasper County, Jasper County School District #1 by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

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NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - What is a sure sign a public board wants to hide everything from the public? They started acting like little dictators and direct police to remove law-abiding citizens from "their" meeting room - what a great way to tell people you hate...

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14 Mar Sunshine Week…….except in the Office of Illinois Governor Rauner

Posted at 23:14h in Diana Rauner, feature, Governor, Illinois by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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Illinois (ECWd) - As part of our continued efforts to track communications in the Governor Rauner administration, we have filed numerous Freedom of Information Act requests. As we reported in this article, our past request for emails sent and received by the First Lady was denied as unduly...

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13 Mar CUSD 200 – Laws? What Laws? – SCHOOL Districts using “Lease” to avoid the legal requirement for referendum to build new school.

Posted at 12:06h in CUSD 200, DuPage County, feature by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 2 Comments

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Dupage Co. (ECWd) -  Wheaton-Warrenville, CUSD200 is looking to build a new Jefferson pre-school WITHOUT a referendum.  "To build" is a keyword!   On Wed, 3/14/2018, the School Board plans to approve the issuance of “lease certificates” in order to build a school.   They are justifying this based...

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12 Mar Sunshine Week 2018: Carlinville, keeping people in the dark –

Posted at 12:05h in City of Carlinville, feature, Macoupin County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 3 Comments

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CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Carlinville keeps its citizens in the dark, hides public records, lies about it. Yes, Carlinville taxpayers, you are paying dearly for your city's refusal to provide simple records that the law says they must provide. Instead, they are spending thousands of your hard-earned...

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10 Mar “If we give them what they want, are there folks who can be helpful with positive statements, endorsements, etc.?”

Posted at 22:02h in Diana Rauner, feature, Governor, Illinois by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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Illinois (ECWd) - Nachama Soloveichik, a Washington, D.C.-based campaign consultant running the re-election of Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, was asking the question. She directed it at Diana Rauner, the governor’s wife, who was pondering whether it was now finally time for her husband to tell Illinois...

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10 Mar Coles County – Fact checking a thing of the past?

Posted at 21:02h in Charleston, Coles County, feature by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 2 Comments

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Coles Co. (ECWd) - We reported on the Sheriff's debate in this article and even provided the video.  We did so because it was clear we could not count on local reporting to actually point out false statements. The paper reported that Steve Spear made the following statement: “None...

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10 Mar Coles County – Why the public should be guarded about what they read in the paper.

Posted at 19:09h in Charleston, Charleston CUSD #1, Coles County, feature by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 4 Comments

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Coles Co. (ECWd) - During a recent Charleston School Board meeting we noticed the local reporter for the newspaper was present.  In light of the teacher that had been arrested and questions raised during the meeting, many had hoped the local paper would have reported on...

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10 Mar Charleston School District – Did child safety take a back seat to possible evidence destruction?

Posted at 12:26h in Charleston, Charleston CUSD #1, Coles County, feature by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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Coles. Co. (ECWd) - Approximately two weeks ago I attended the Charleston School Board meeting as a messenger and to get some answers.  If you watch the video of my public comment in this article, you will see my focus was on how a child in South Carolina...

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