Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - Update: 5-29-2015 - added the audio recording to the bottom of the article. It is about 1 hour and 41 minutes long. Just two days after having to cancel a committee meeting because there were no appointed committee members, the Clark County...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - On May 26, 2015, the Clark County Park District tried to hold a finance committee meeting. The problem was that there were no appointed finance committee members. One of the first items on the agenda was public comment, and I spoke first...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Bridget Bittman, the Orland Park Public Library's public information coordinator, filed what we believe to be a SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuit against critics of the OPPL's history of allowing child pornography to be accessed and other illegal things...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - After the short meeting tonight that was determined to be a meeting of a non-existent finance committee, the Park District's "Security Guard" decided to intimidate those that were in attendance by staring them down as they walked past him. He was in...
More photos were taken of the turbine burning in Livingston County this past weekend and they came from the facebook page of: Rt66 & 17 Illinois Fire Ground Photos Please visit their page to see lots of pictures of this fire and give them a thumbs-up! ...
Mt. Pulaski, IL. (ECWd) - After reading through the proposed "contract" between the Mt. Pulaski Community Unit School No. 23 School Board and Meridien LLC., it is clear this is no ordinary contract. This contract was discussed during the May 2015 school board meeting and is presumed...
Livingston Co., IL. (ECWd) - Update: May 25, 2015, 9:15 a.m.: This is the second Iberdrola Renewables turbine fire in the past 10 days. The previous was on May 14 and was located in the Locust Ridge II Wind Farm near Westboro, IOWA. (news article here). Update: May...
Vermilion Co., IL. (ECWd) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nikki Bogart wins round 2: An Administrative Law Judge for the Illinois Department of Employment Security ruled in a Decision issued recently that Nikki Bogart did not commit misconduct or insubordination as defined by Illinois law. After seven and a half years of...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - In one of the more disturbing claims coming out of the Clark County Park District Executive Director's office, Charity Murphy has now claimed that even though I asked for electronic records, and even though the park district has the capability to...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - After we reported that the Clark County Park District's Executive Director, Charity Murphy, had not taken any FOIA training, she decided to take the mandated training. Failure to take the training is a policy violation of the Park District and State...
