DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During the April 6, 2021 Danville City Council meeting, Mayor Rickey Williams lied to the public about Christopher Hansen prior to reading only the parts of Hansen's comment that Williams thought the public had a right to hear, damn the First Amendment...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During the April 6, 2021, Danville, Illinois City Council Meeting, Mayor Rickey Williams, Jr., started public comment by lying about Christopher Hansen, the person who submitted a public comment to be read at the meeting. Danville's unreasonable public comment rule of submitting your...
Ashmore, IL. (ECWd) - Just inside the Coles County line, between Ashmore and Kansas, was an accident around 10 p.m. last night. It appears a vehicle hit a guardrail. We saw this on our way back from the Shelby County Board meeting. ...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Bailiff Rick Hoadley appears to have crossed the line with his recent communication to a County Official. According to the email we received this morning, Hoadley appears to think he has some type of authority to silence people in a County...
DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - DuPage Township's Human Resources employee, Amy A., submitted her resignation to DuPage Township officials this morning. She stated she her final date of employment was flexible to permit the township to find a replacement and to ensure a smooth transition....
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - A Petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court for Leave to Appeal from the Illinois Appellate Court yesterday. This is the lawsuit involving the City of Carlinville, another municipality, and a private company, opening up another private company for the purposes of contracting from the...
Illinois (ECWd) - Illinois Candidate for the United States Senate, Allison Salinas (Pekin, IL.), has been sued in Circuit Court, Fayette County, Illinois. The basics of this complaint is that the Salinas campaign employed campaign staff who they never paid, sold tickets to an event tp be...
Southlake, TX. (ECWd) - FOX4-KDFW is reporting that two Carroll ISD School Board Trustees were indicted by a grand jury and arrested for violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. They are accused of circumventing the TOMA by "communicating in a quorum" outside of an open meeting through...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Last month, after submitting a public records request, we received the disciplinary records of Paris Police Sergeant Phillip Kohlenberg, who was disciplined without formal adjudication, demoted to Patrolman and given 5 days off without pay. On October 28, 2020, Kohlenberg was placed on...
Pecatonica Township, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General has issued another in a long and growing list of determinations stating that Supervisor Musso and the Pecatonica Township Board has violated state law by unlawfully restricting protected speech, many times with the Township's Attorney present at...
