The battle wages on between former Supervisor Francis McGuigan and Greene County officials. McGuigan, who served as an at-large member on the county Board of Supervisors from January 2024 until January 2026, filed suit against the board and the county administrator in February after trying and failing to rescind his resignation two days after submitting it. Now, he’s added another name to the list of defendants: Marie Durrer, a former supervisor who was appointed to fill his seat after he left it vacant. … McGuigan alleges Durrer was awarded his seat illegally and “is now exercising the powers of the office unlawfully.” County attorney Kelly Kemp says that couldn’t be further from the truth. “The Board’s appointment of Ms. Durrer was an official act of the governing body, taken at a public meeting, in the exercise of its statutory authority,” Kemp wrote in response to McGuigan’s latest filing. “She is not an intruder who seized office without any claim of right, rather, she is an appointee of the lawful governing body.”

The Richmond Free Press donated its 34-year archive to the Richmond Public Library, transferring hundreds of boxes of files, photographs and back issues ahead of the sale of its downtown building this week. The collection, which documents decades of life in Richmond from the perspective of the city’s Black community, will be preserved and made accessible to the public. Richmond Public Library staff called it one of the most important collections documenting African American history in the city.

When the Connecticut General Assembly adjourned sine die at midnight on May 6, legislators left multiple bills exempting information from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on chamber calendars and in committee, effectively killing them. It was not the first year several of those bills, including a proposal to exempt most records produced by public universities from FOIA disclosure and bills expanding the list of state employees whose residential addresses may not be disclosed under the law, failed to make it to final passage.

After explosive FOIA findings revealed Illinois State Senator Jason Plummer missed more than 35 percent of legislative days in Springfield over a two-year period, the Edwardsville Republican responded with a sprawling 2,500-word statement attempting to justify his absences and attack critics. But rather than calming concerns, Plummer’s lengthy defense appears to confirm the very criticism now fueling growing unrest inside Republican circles: that the senator increasingly views showing up to Springfield as optional. … The statement contains repeated attacks against unnamed “malicious actors,” “online bullies,” and critics supposedly trying to “smear” him. Yet Plummer never directly disputes the underlying attendance figures revealed through the FOIA request. Instead, he attempts to redefine the standard entirely.