The Edgar County ETS (911) Board held a regular meeting on Monday, April 9, 2012. Video of the entire meeting is below. Below that is the Open Meetings Act Request for Review I filed with the Illinois Attorney General referencing a possible Conflict of Interest...
DID YOU KNOW? While investigating other county related matters a search pulled up a Federal Civil lawsuit that had Dee Burgin's name in it. Turns out it has not only Mr. Burgin's name on it but the names of several other people named to include County of Edgar, all...
This is the resolution of the complaint filed, after the Attorney General's office completed their investigation on the illegal secret ballot at the 911 meeting in Dec 2011. What makes this so outragious is that the Chairman, Dee Burgin, had the assistance of Craig Smith, their lawyer...
The results of two Illinois Attorney General INVESTIGATIONS (wow - there's that word again that we have been accused of defaming people with). This is but two of the many complaints files with the Illinois Attorney General within the past 8 months. Some for Open Meetings Act violations and...
"The Dirty Dozen" As promised, we said we would point out the twelve lies in the cease and desist letter, so here goes: ...
Statement from Roger Eddy: Subject: FW: statement from Eddy I have devoted my entire professional life to working to improve the education of our children. From serving as a teacher, my work as a superintendent and now as a State Representative, I’ve committed myself to working to...
Coming to us from Disclosure: By Jack Howser Published: February 25, 2012 EDGAR CO.—One of the latest attempts at issuing threats to shut down Disclosure comes from one of the latest counties we’ve come to cover. It’s a phenomenon we’ve seen repeatedly over the past nine years of publication...
This week we were sent a certified letter from a Chicago law firm that turned out to be a cease and desist request on behalf of Mr. Dee Burgin. He alleges we are making defamatory statements against him, and they threatened a lawsuit if we...
I promised an update when information was gathered, so here goes: Apparently this property owner is alleging that Deputy Burgin has been harassing him, harassing customer of his, insulting his customers, entering non-public areas of his business without permission, trespassing and being obnoxious to the point...
Video is below, our comments are below the video: The first action was to remove the requirement to state your address during the public comment period. I commented on the fact that they should not pay a $3000 per month rent payment when the rental agreement is...
