"Good grief .... I went to their “home page” and was rather surprised at all they have to talk about .... then again, maybe not so surprised. Wow!"
This is Edgar County. Just corn country.
This is Paris, the County Seat.
This is just small town USA.
Corruption has always been around but these days I think we have a major case of trickle down corruption. We really need a nationwide network of watchdogs. It's amazing how much revenue sales taxes and property taxes plus all those administrative fees add up to, even for a small town and when everybody's on the take, guess who's paying for it. Us.