A Sad Story – Not a Fairy Tale Once upon a time there was a need for an ambulance service in Edgar County, and POOF (well, not quite that quickly…), it was done. For many years the People in the land around Paris were cared for...
Sorry I Missed Getting MY House Roofed, Too! Remember the good old days when not-for-profit organizations and government entities could get work done by the Paris Work Camp crews? Of course there were rules and regulations and a prison guard accompanied them. After the Work Camp...
Over 6 months ago we requested minutes from the 911 board pertaining to the hiring of Craig Smith, a local attorney and current Mayor of Paris. We knew when it happen it was illegal, but no one would listen. The 911 board approved payment of an...
How does someone who moved to Edgar County, starting as a City of Paris fireman, become so firmly entrenched in behind-the-scenes county politics that he profits by hundreds of thousands of dollars at county taxpayers’ expense? It started with becoming an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), which...
The Illinois Attorney General has received this Open Meetings Act request for review pertaining to a committee of the ETSB (911) holding an illegal meeting on Aug 16, 2011. ...
Arrogance at its finest! Mayor Craig Smith, who also happens to be a local attorney at law, might consider reading the Open Meetings Statute to better understand it since its clear after several confirmed violations of that act by his clients (Edgar County ETSB) he still...
The Administrator of the Edgar County Health Department, Eddy McFarland, and "his girlfriend" (not my words...
The ECWD have, for MONTHS, continued to demand that audits be completed as required, with the Edgar County Board refusing to comply with the law. (30 ILCS 5/) Illinois State Auditing Act. 1. Statute requires that the County Board shall cause an audit of all funds and accounts...
Video of the Dec 14, 2011 Edgar County Board Meeting is below. I find it quite telling, the lengths that our county board will go to in order to prevent an audit of the ETS Board. This particular entity of the county government has not been...
The City of Paris has adopted an ordinance limiting the number of refuse haulers in the city to three. They have also imposed a $250 fee for the license, plus $50 for each additional refuse vehicle. This is all about "control" and nothing more. Control by...
