I believe it was the year 2000 that I began looking at District 95’s financial records. In addition to discovering that the district was financially in trouble, I also noticed that taxpayer money was illegally being spent on the Illinois School Board Convention held annually...
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...
The following was posted on www.forthegoodofillinoispac.com QUESTION: Why isn't Roger Eddy disclosing his double-dipping? ANSWER: Who knows, but he broke the law. Roger Eddy has failed to declare his school superintendent job on his official “Statement of Economic Interest” in the six years 2006-2011. This is fascinating, since he did disclose...
Open to the Public ! - February 22, 2012 @ 6:45pm Brad Halbrook will be there for a meet and greet as he is running for State Representative in the 110th District, which includes the Kansas and Grandview area of Edgar County. Mike Callahan is the Keynote...
A few weeks ago, we were informed by Mayor Smith that the city lawyer would contact us to show their basis for limiting the number of refuse hauling permits in the city. We have never disputed the fact that municipalities are authorized to contract with an...
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...
A member of the Revolving Loan Fund Board tendered his resignation as a direct result of the anti-business policy put forth in the "alleged by us" illegal (we will state our case in a few days) refuse ordinance limiting the number of licensed haulers in the...
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...
Video is below, we will comment on this at a later time, feel free to leave your own comments: ...
A couple articles from around the state that have references to Edgar County. From DarienPatch (Please read the comments on the site below the story): "While recounting the story he tells in his book, Too Politically Sensitive, Callahan called on the audience to take action against government corruption". Taken...
