Standing work that stays current — updated as the story develops.
- Poling Investigation: “You are merely the caretaker of the buildings”
Grant County has released a 30-page internal investigation report about Commissioner Chuck Poling and referred it to state and federal authorities. The title is what the county clerk told the investigator she said to him in her office on July 1, 2025, after he said, in her account, that he owned the buildings: "Chuck, you do not own the buildings, the people own buildings, you are merely the caretaker of the buildings." Here is what each section says, with every claim opening the page of the report, the witness's own transcript or the exhibit it rests on, and what it does and does not settle.
Updated Sep 3, 2026
- Project Riverjump and Grant County's Data Center Dilemma
How we got here — the county's own documents, recordings and land records, from a closed factory in 2022 to a $2 billion sheet circulating in Marion this summer.
Updated Sep 3, 2026
Added the mayor's Chronicle-Tribune interviews (published Aug. 27): he named Meta as the company to answer for the project, said no deal has been presented to the city council, and said he will not pursue or support data center development in Marion under his administration. His NDA answer now covers city staff and, by his own statement, not the county.
- The Grant County Record
Every meeting we have indexed across Grant County's public bodies, in one place, narrowed by who was sitting and by what they were discussing. Each entry opens the recording at the second it happened. Timestamps were located in automatic captions, which garble names and numbers badly, so the recording is the record and this page is a way in.
Updated Sep 2, 2026
Loaded transcripts for four more meetings: the commissioners on October 20 and June 1, and the drainage board on July 14 and July 28. Every meeting in the index with a transcript available is now searchable.
- Marion city council, in their own words
Every Marion Common Council meeting, broken into the moments that matter. Tap one and the council's own recording plays right here on the page, starting at that point. Updated after each meeting.
Updated Aug 19, 2026
- Flock Cameras in Grant County: 45 on the Map, So Far
Forty-five license plate cameras are mapped inside the county line, each listed below with a link to look at its location. How the towns bought them, and what public records do and do not say, is the second report in this series; what the agencies search with them is the third. Both are coming soon.
Updated Aug 17, 2026
The count goes from 39 to 45. Six cameras went onto the map on August 16, 2026, added by OurWeek after we found them — five inside Matter Park, aimed at the playground, the gardens, a picnic pavilion, the pickleball courts and a disc golf hole rather than at a road, and one on North Washington Street. They are listed at the end of the camera table, located by the park or street they stand in, and none has been photographed for the table yet. The detection arithmetic, the map, the share card and every count on this page move with them. What each park camera faces is the subject of a separate report.
- Grant County data center hearings, in their own words
Fifteen hours of Area Plan Commission video across seven meetings, broken into the moments that matter. Tap one and the recording plays right here on the page, starting at that point.
Updated Aug 14, 2026
Added the August 5 meeting — 41 new moments and the full transcript. The subcommittee reached the end of the 37-page draft; battery storage was split off into an ordinance of its own.
