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 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...
Mr. Clark, you should FIRE your ETSB attorney, Craig Smith, the current Mayor of Paris, Illinois! At the beginning of my questions I referenced a document, a single piece of paper, that was handed out by Dee Burgin before the meeting started. That single sheet of...
Sit down people, clear your mouths; you’re NOT going to believe this! What do you suppose the first act of the 911 Board was after voting in the new Board Chairman, Dee Burgin? Next act of business, Break the law, of course! Not a major milestone other than it...
Below is the complete video (minus the tape change) of the Edgar County ETSB Meeting held on Dec 5, 2011. ...
The following is an article on Blago, but one only needs to replace "Illinois" with "enter your local government name here" and you will swear he was reading our minds when writing this. In either case, we can all demand accountability in our local government. =========================== Quoted from the end of this...
From the Huffington Post report: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-conroy/randy-steidl-settlement-wrongful-conviction_b_1123730.html?ref=chicago John Conroy Senior investigator, Better Government Association; Author, 'Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture' We Must Insist on Accountability for Wrongful Convictions Posted: 12/ 1/11 02:21 PM ET Former death row inmate Randy Steidl, sentenced to die for the 1986 murders of Dyke...
This following article is about the recent settlement of Randy Steidl with one of the defendants in his wrongful conviction federal civil lawsuit -- the Illinois State Police. The suspect with political connections mentioned in the piece was/is the client of Dan Curry and John...
