By Maura Pennington | Watchdog.org PHILADELPHIA —The School District of York City last month held a public meeting and restricted comment from students younger than 18. The solicitor for the school board told attendees it would hear no comments about New Hope Academy Charter School. As a...
TIPTON CO. IN. (ECWd) - filed: April 3, 2014 • Indiana Another blade failure Credit: Whitley County Concerned Citizens | www.wcccitizens.org ~~ There has been another blade failure in the Wildcat 1 wind farm. It happened sometime last night (April 2nd). The turbine is located just east of 500 East...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Today we had a special guest visit our studio, Mr. Rich Porter from Ford County, so we asked him to appear on camera to discuss Rev. Teddy Jensen, from the failed Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department. This is the bi-county Health Department that...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Sen. Dale Righter (R), gave a quick press conference on Gov. Quinn's abuse of the Executive Appointment process. The latest abuse is his appointment of Julie Hamos as the Director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Instead of subjecting...
ECWd’s – Coles County Sheriff Darrel Cox may now be facing even more trouble if the reasons for a recent FOIA denial are in fact true. When we discovered the Federal Wrongful Death law suit (Click here for Wrongful Death article previously published), filed against him...
ORLAND PARK, IL (ECWd) - The Orland Park Public Library (OPPL) called police on a citizen 5 times in recent months complaining of youtube videos and facebook posts of a mom (Megan Fox - not the actress) that doesn’t agree with their pro-porn policy…and I thought...
Letter to the Editor: Sale of the Century at the Edgar County Airport   Our County Board Member spoke volumes when he said, “when you get $800,000.00 in return for a $65,000.00 investment you take it”. He was of course; addressing the counties reckless spending on this project....
NORTH HENDERSON, IL (ECWd) - I think we have said this before but here it comes again. When a public body refuses to provide public records that they know they must provide, you can just about bet there is some type of actions they feel the...
WATSEKA, IL. (ECWd) - This article provides an update on the Ford-Iroquois Public Health Department's solar panel project. We reported on this bid-rigged project in April of last year (click here), and recent forensic audit results confirmed it (here). From the Paxton-Record, an outstanding local newspaper...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In a rare standing room only, and overflowing into the hallway of the courthouse hearing, Tom Ogle and his attorney (S. Craig Smith) were in attendance over the high voltage power line issue. After some testimony from both sides, the hearing was...
