According to reports there has been two separate incidents in which an explosive device was placed in mail boxes in both Edgar and Clark Counties. Two nights in a row there have been mail boxes blown up by what appears to be homemade bombs. Sunday night just north of...
Sorry I Missed Getting MY House Roofed, Too! Remember the good old days when not-for-profit organizations and government entities could get work done by the Paris Work Camp crews? Of course there were rules and regulations and a prison guard accompanied them. After the Work Camp...
Latest Discovery at Jail: Just the Latest in Inept & Illegal Activity  We could hold this story until we get more information, but decided to share what we have now, with an ending of “stay tuned for more developments…” Improper use of power and authority is...
A tactical move to undo an illegal action at the December 5, 2011 Edgar County 911 Board meeting backfired at the next 911 Board meeting when elected Chairman, Dee Burgin, inadvertently voided his chairmanship. The intent was to void the secret ballot action to elect...
Over 6 months ago we requested minutes from the 911 board pertaining to the hiring of Craig Smith, a local attorney and current Mayor of Paris. We knew when it happen it was illegal, but no one would listen. The 911 board approved payment of an...
At the Jan 9, 2012 Paris City Council meeting , the council opened with roll call, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance. The Mayor informed everyone that WHAM-TV, from Mayo Middle School, would be filming all City Council meetings starting tonight and the videos will be put on...
How does someone who moved to Edgar County, starting as a City of Paris fireman, become so firmly entrenched in behind-the-scenes county politics that he profits by hundreds of thousands of dollars at county taxpayers’ expense?  It started with becoming an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), which...
The Illinois Attorney General has received this Open Meetings Act request for review pertaining to a committee of the ETSB (911) holding an illegal meeting on Aug 16, 2011. Â ...
After futher inquiries into the Refuse Hauling Ordinance and multiple FOIA requests we discovered that the rates for using the Transfer Station have not been legally increased, in quite some time, as required by the contract signed between the City of Paris and Ingrum Waste Disposal. The...
Arrogance at its finest! Mayor Craig Smith, who also happens to be a local attorney at law, might consider reading the Open Meetings Statute to better understand it since its clear after several confirmed violations of that act by his clients (Edgar County ETSB) he still...
