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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AVON, OHIO (ECWd) - [caption id="attachment_43447" align="alignleft" width="150"] Pic from his Linkin account[/caption] Last year, an "anonymous" person opened up a website apparently designed to threaten, intimidate, and disparage us. While we fully support every person's First Amendment rights, there are lines that can be crossed subjecting...
