BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Watchdogs will be in Bloomington, Illinois with Americans For Prosperity Foundation on September 24th, from 8:00 a.m. until noon at the Holiday Inn and Suites for another round of Watchdog Training "101". . It is FREE, although registration is not...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Our radio interview Ben Yount and Andrew Nelms talking about the watchdog training coming up tomorrow (Aug 20, 2016) in Springfield. [audio mp3="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Il-Watchdog-Radio.mp3"][/audio] . Please consider a donation to the Edgar County Watchdogs. [wp_eStore_donate id=1] ....
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - This past week, after a three-year delay, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has finally issued a determination of an alleged Open Meetings Act complaint filed by former Bloomington Councilman Judy Stearns. On November 15, 2013, Stearns, as councilman, was participating in...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - Bloomington, Illinois' McLean County Board Chairman Matt Sorensen, former State Farm employee, named in federal indictment coming out of the Northern District of Illinois. The indictment, containing 14 pages and 8 Counts, claims that since 2004, Sorenson and co-workers submitted fraudulent invoices totaling over...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - Fresh from the Bloomington FOIA Officer is the below list of individuals and companies who owe the City of Bloomington over $636,000.00 in unpaid water bills. It took several back and forth emails to get this list produced, but the city finally followed...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - So much for "Not In Our Town" - what's happening under your watch Tari? Is your city actually using public funds, personnel and other public resources to terrorize the public, thru social media, who do not follow your warped visions of what...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - Another lawsuit Bloomington? November 6, 2015 By: Diane Benjamin I’ve said this many times, but I will repeat it again. If I send a Freedom of Information request to Normal I actually get the information I want. No games, no attempting to circumvent the rules,...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - During Bloomington's City Council meeting on July 13, 2015, public comment started at around the 2:10 mark in the video. ECWd's Kirk Allen spoke second, but the city somehow decided to delete his comment and others from the video (unless it was an...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - Ian Bayne on Cities 92.9 talked about a recent article of ours where we surveyed cities similar to Bloomington to compare public comment policies. . At about the 11:55 minute mark in the audio below: . ....
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - I recently conducted a survey of cities similar in size to Bloomington, IL., including cities in Illinois with a population of between 58,000 and 108,000 residents. Bloomington has 76,610 according to the 2010 census, and falls in the middle range of this...
