PAXTON, IL. (ECWd) - Attorney Dan P. Schuering has been contracting with several municipalities across Illinois, under the name of “Municipal Consulting Group, LTD” – which is a corporation that is dissolved. We urge each public body who may receive an invoice from this "company" to refuse...
Ford Co. (ECWd) - Last year we formed American Watchdogs Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit for the purpose of training others nationwide on our model of how to hold local government accountable. Our first major project with that effort was the launching of a searchable database of...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - After running one article on Ford County and their Supervisor of Assessment failures, the Supervisor resigned and today we find that the Ford County Board of Review did just as we suggested, with one minor exception. Our suggestion in this article: "With these many...
PAXTON, IL. (ECWd) - The Ford County Supervisor of Assessments has tendered her resignation effective Monday, February 19, 2018, according to the Ford County Record. She stated that she resigned amid complaints from unhappy taxpayers in advance of a Special County Board Meeting scheduled for Monday...
PAXTON, IL. (ECWd) - Below is video of the Ford County Board Meeting held on February 12, 2018. Topics for public comment included "Assessments" and "Wind Farm Ordinance" among others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAVbU09h24 The Edgar County Watchdogs, Inc., is an exempt 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. Our work is funded entirely thru donations and...
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...
Argyle and Moore Townships, Michigan (ECWd) - The last couple weeks, Mike Blazer, attorney for InvEnergy, has been the source of citizen complaints in a remarkable place. Blazer has been caught telling a few lies to citizens in Argyle Michigan. Michigan citizens took issue with the following...
This is an excellent article which explains what those living near turbines are still experiencing. Credit goes to wind-watch.org: posted: August 4, 2015 • Australia, Michigan, Noise Malcolm Swinbanks: Questions Taken on Notice Author: <rel=author value="Swinbanks, Malcolm">Swinbanks, Malcolm; and <rel=author value="Australia Senate Select Committee on Wind Turbines">Australia Senate...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - In another fine example of how bad things are at the Attorney General's Public Access office. Twenty months after a request for review was submitted to them, they finally confirm a violation occurred, however, they claim they can't direct the records be...
Ford and Iroquois Counties, IL. (ECWd) - We were forwarded a public notice published in a local newspaper in northern Vermilion County. The notice was published by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, IDNR, and it is for an application by the Pioneer Trail Wind Farm's for...
