Archive for July, 2008

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 3:35pm

Leesburg Says “No” to Signs and Business

Posted by admin in Leesburg

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!!! On Monday, July 28, 2008 at 5:30 PM, the Leesburg City Commission will meet, and one of the first items on the agenda will be a NEW sign ordinance.  It is my belief that the Commission wants to postpone the effective date of this ordinance until the economy gets better.  It [...]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 3:22pm

County Commissioners Cooking Population Numbers

Posted by admin in Lake County

The Lake County Commissioners are purposely lowering projected population growth numbers to fit their anti-business and anti-growth agendas.  Citizens for Better Government, L.L.C. has discovered third-party documented proof showing the Commissioners are not being truthful to the working people of Lake County.  On Tuesday, June 17, 2008, the Commissioners voted 3-2 to lower Lake County’s [...]

Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 2:27pm

Lauren Ritchie and Her New Boss

Posted by admin in Florida

Billionaire real estate mogul, Sam Zell, took the Tribune Company, the owner of the Orlando Sentinel, private in late 2007; and, he has been a man on a mission to change this dinosaur newspaper business.  Recently on CNBC, Mr. Zell made this observation, “I think that because newspapers have historically been monopolies, I think they’ve [...]

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 at 2:19pm

School Board Member, Cindy Barrow, Threatens Legal Action

Posted by admin in Lake County

On Monday, July 7, 2008, Citizens for Better Government, L.L.C. received at their website (www.lakecountygov.info) an email from Lake County School Board Member, Cindy Barrow, in which she threatened legal action if we did not change the status of “business experience” on her report card; because, in her view, she has business experience. Barrow, who [...]

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 1:59pm

Numbers Don’t Lie, Lake County is Hurting

Posted by admin in Lake County

In political discussions, many times emotions and rhetoric heat up to a point in which arguments from either side lack the facts to support them.  The group, Citizens for Better Government LLC, and the website,  www.lakecountygov.info, were not created to badger any particular politician or government official.  That being said, the intentions of both the [...]

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