Representative Larry Metz has now come out against children’s health by sponsoring a new bill that would remove state physical education requirements for middle school students in Florida. Rep. Metz’s bill would allow localities and students to decide if physical education classes were needed. In an article posted on The Huffington Post, a nationally circulated [...]
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Do You “Like” The Right Side of The Lake?
Citizens for Better Government, LLC., decided last month that, in order to expand our reach across the internet, we would set up a Facebook and Twitter page for The Right Side of the Lake newsletters. The response has been superb! With little more than a link on our newsletter and website, we have gained fans [...]
New Growth Bill May Help Lake County Find Common Ground
State and local no-growth, anti-business fanatics are almost in full cardiac arrest over the passage of HB 7207 in the last Florida legislative session. They’ve gotten so desperate that they’ve called on liberal Democrat, and former Governor, Bob Graham to ask current Governor Rick Scott to veto the bill. To hear that crowd talk, this [...]
Crime is Down – Why?
At the end of April, Governor Rick Scott’s office and the Florida law enforcement offices across the state celebrated and took credit for a 6.7 percent reduction in overall crime from the year before, and a whopping 10.1 percent reduction in violent crimes. In fact, based on per capita of people the crime rate in [...]
Government Pay and Pension Plans May Go Bust
Is This Going To Be The Big Issue In 2011? In the spring of 2007, Citizens for Better Government, L.L.C. predicted the housing and financial meltdown in Lake County and state of Florida, and at the time, a Lake County Commissioner said we were “grandstanding.” Well, we were right, and she was wrong. Right now, [...]
