Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Adam Lopez, former Springfield School Board President was sentenced yesterday to spend 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft. He was credited for time served in Sangamon County Jail since his arrest. He was also ordered to repay more than $1.5...
DANA, IN. (ECWd) - Residents of Dana, Indiana and surrounding areas has a chance to speak their minds this evening on the subject of Industrial Wind Farms. The first video is from tonight's Dana, Indiana meeting (not enough bandwidth to livestream), the second video was livestreamed from...
Seminole Co., Florida (ECWd) - Schools are supposed to be in place for educational purposes. What did the students learn from the recent events involving the hiring of a new School Superintendent? We pose this question because of one board member's comments. "I have reached the conclusion...
New York (ECWd) - Today, in a 33 page opinion, the First Appellate Court in the State of New York suspended the law license of Rudolph Giuliani: "suspended from the practice of law in the State of New York pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(2) and 22...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) - The Illinois State Police and the City of Urbana, after being sued under the Freedom of Information Act for improper redactions, have provided unredacted records pertaining to the allegation of criminal shoplifting by State Representative Carol Ammons. Initially, both agencies redacted Ammons's...
Michigan (ECWd) - Greenleaf Township, population 740, was ordered to pay $140,000 in legal fees and a $500 verdict for violating the Michigan Open Meetings Act. Michigan, like Illinois, has fee shifting provisions in its Open Meetings and Open Records laws. We must state the obvious; that compliance...
DuPage County, IL. (ECWd) - Tornado hits the suburbs of Chicago, leaving 22,000 without power and 5 hospitalized. Meanwhile, Edgar County is still without warning sirens; they gave them all away several years ago, at a time when most counties were scrambling to replace or fix theirs. Something...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Bloomington School District 87 has been violating the Open Meetings Act by demanding people reveal their home addresses in order to participate in public comment. See examples of this unlawful demand by D87 (HERE, HERE, and HERE) - even demanding the addresses of...
Illinois (ECWd) - Governor Pritzker's "All In For The Win" $10 million lottery drawing for people who have received their COVID shots DO NOT apply to Veterans, Military, or anyone who may have received their shots from a federal facility. Also excluded are family members of those...
IL. (ECWd) - It has come to our attention that a company, which, according to the Secretary of State's Department of Business Services, is not registered to do business in the state of Illinois, has been soliciting local governments for donations or grants for the purported...
