On Friday, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity released Lake County’s unemployment rate and it dropped from 10.1 percent in November to 9.9 percent in December, which is the lowest rate since April 2009. It has taken a whopping 31 months for Lake County’s unemployment rate to drop into single digits. This is great news, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Leslie Campione’
Rescuing the Future of Mt. Plymouth-Sorrento
Mt. Plymouth and Sorrento are small communities in east Lake County that are adjacent to the Wekiva area, and less than 30 minutes from downtown Orlando. In the early 1900s, the area featured a large resort and was a getaway for some of the nation’s wealthiest citizens. Over the last decade, they have become a [...]
The Best!
Lake County Commission The old dairy farm adage “the cream rises to the top” definitely describes the recipient of Citizens for Better Government’s The Best Lake County Public Servant for 2011 -County Commissioner (District 4) Leslie Campione. After just one year in office, Commissioner Campione was unanimously voted by her peers to serve as County [...]
Sean Parks’ Option #5 Map the Best
Currently displayed at the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares and online (Click to View) are the five redistricting maps that the Lake County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) will consider adopting. The BCC is asking for public input and comments before they make a decision, and our group is weighing in with its recommendation. There [...]
Mother’s Milk is Drying Up
The mother’s milk of politics is money, and to say the milk is drying up is an understatement. As candidates begin to announce their campaigns for local offices, the one thing most can count on this election cycle is that donors will be harder to find. This Great Recession has been brutal to many of [...]
