Hancock Co., IL. (ECWd) - Last month, the Hancock County Circuit Court Ordered the Hancock County Sheriff to provide the names of people who purchased guns at the Sheriff's gun sale. We asked for the records so we could determine if any Sheriff's Department employees purchased...
LaHarpe, IL. (ECWd) - Ryan Kienast, former mayor of LaHarpe, Illinois, plead guilty in Hancock County Circuit Court for the activity we exposed last year thanks to local residents and their tips. This is yet another example as to how the system is supposed to work. The...
LaHarp, IL. (ECWd) - On August 18, 2017, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor issued an opinion stating that the LaHarpe City Council violated the Open Meetings Act on September 26, 2016, when it entered into closed session without a finding of imminent and probable...
NAUVOO, IL. (ECWd) - A few days after we published a Press Release from opennauvoo.org about Nauvoo Councilwoman Beverly Reynolds and her unflattering comments about "tar and feathers" on "people like this" and her apparent references to the 1840s murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith and...
Nauvoo, IL- (ECWd) - Open Nauvoo Press Release– June 16, 2017 – Many Nauvoo citizens fear for their safety tonight after learning of statements made by Beverly Reynolds, Nauvoo City Councilwoman, who called for "people like this" to be tarred and feathered and run out of town....
LaHarpe, IL. (ECWd) - Ryan Kienast, the long-embattled Mayor of LaHarpe, Illinois tendered his resignation prior to the May 22, 2017, city council meeting by placing a copy of his resignation at every seat of the city council. His most recent scandal involved the firing of a water...
NAUVOO, IL. (ECWd) - Requests to the City of Nauvoo for documents associated with the bid process for the City of Nauvoo have gone unanswered, and statements have been made that there were no bids, and thus no contracts associated with them. All of this leads to...
Hancock Co. (ECWd) - We first reported on the alleged violation of law by the LaHarpe Mayor when he used public equipment and personnel for personal gain on his property in this article, published November 11, 2016. After that article, we attended a village meeting...
LaHarpe, IL. (ECWd) - We attended the LaHarpe City Council Meeting last night to observe discussion on Agenda item number 8, which was to discuss the use of city equipment on private property (see the previous article here). The Mayor did not attend, presumably because the...
LaHarpe, IL. (ECWd) - Yesterday we were informed the Mayor of LaHarpe, Illinois, Ryan Kienast, had directed a city worker to bring the city backhoe down to Kienast's home and dig away the dirt from a corner of his building foundation. This was so Kienast could rebuild the...
