Ford Co. (ECWd) - During the Ford County Board meeting last night numerous concerned citizens spoke about the property tax assessment issues currently plaguing the northern part of Ford County. One of those citizens provided us a copy of the Publication of the assessments, and it...
 Logan Co. (ECWd) - During the Atlanta Public Library hearing, one of the Library Director's testified on the impact to the library if they had to pay the Secretary of State for the Grant they obtained totaling $25,000.0. Does anyone else find it strange that they...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - The Clark County Sheriff's Department secured a warrant and arrested Ronald W. Wells, 61, Dennison, IL., on Friday, February 9, 2018, for the allegation of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse of a person under the age of 18 years old and a family...
Logan Co. (ECWd) - For over eight months we have been exposing alleged felony violations of law by Bill Thomas, former self-dealing board member of the Atlanta Public Library District, and to date, Thomas has not been charged. During the recent Secretary of State hearing on their demand...
CHARLESTON, IL. (ECWd) - The Bruce Rauner slate of candidates, Attorney General Candidate Erika Herald, State Representative Avery Borne, GOP Chairman Tim Schneider called for Jeanne Ives to remove a campaign video ad, citing it being sexist, racist, and homophobic. We may find out if that...
ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - Two Atlanta Public Library District Trustees resigned from office. The first is Bill Thomas, the embattled trustee who had alleged conflicts of interest and other problems while serving as trustee. He testified under Oath that he resigned for the sole purpose of being able...
Logan Co. (ECWd) - Once again, the fact-checking of sworn testimony of Bill Thomas is proving he has a real problem with facts. Our first two articles exposing his inconsistencies, (putting it mildly), can be read here and here. An email communication from an attorney to Bill Thomas...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Mid-2017, we started our investigations of troubling activity within the Atlanta Public Library District. One of the items uncovered was a "Live and Learn" Grant of $25,000 made by the Illinois Secretary of State Library to the APLD. This grant dealt with a...
Logan Co. (ECWd) - Yesterday we exposed in this article what appears to be straight up perjury by Bill Thomas, the former Atlanta Public Library board member. During that portion of his testimony, another major misrepresentation came to light. At the 49 second mark of the video,...
Logan Co. (ECWd) - The Atlanta Library had their hearing with the Secretary of State today regarding the demand for repayment of a $25,000.00 grant the library received based on a fraudulent application. Bill Thomas, former Atlanta Library Board member was put under oath and testified. May...
