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Disclosure began publication in March 2003 as a monthly news product featuring information about southeastern Illinois, not designed to provide “competition” for local mainstream newspapers, but to supplement them. The print version of Disclosure provides news analysis, not breaking news (unless something’s happening on deadline), as we are monthly and not daily or weekly. The website is for breaking stuff that can’t hold until print version, then we do a print version in detail. Disclosure tells the stories that local mainstream daily or weekly news products refuse or are afraid to tell because they are beholden to their advertisers and to the local officials, from which they are spoon fed their information instead of going out and getting the information the hard way—by real investigation. Disclosure doesn’t care whose toes are stepped on because a public official is a public official and needs to lead a life above reproach, both on the job and off. Our taxpayer dollars fund their lifestyle and therefore they are answerable to us for the entire time they are ‘employed’ by we the people, 24/7. They hold us common people accountable for our actions every hour of the day, every day of the week…they should be no different.


There are only a few people on staff at Disclosure. There are no regular office hours and we are generally available every day of the week and into the evening. We only have a couple of stringers and two other “people who work for us.” We also have MINION. Our Minion keep us informed of goings-on in every county surrounding us. Our Minion are not paid. They are faithful people who think like us: they believe that the elite need to be taken down several pegs, favoritism should be shown to no one in matters of law enforcement, justice, schooling or employment, or a number of other things in which a handful of the connected and powerful always seem to be getting away with, whil