Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expanding at a rapid rate. This is my commentary to the Lake County, FL School District to adopt, rather than reject AI and use it to teach students, administrators and teachers how to use it to be more competitive in the new AI world. In my opinion, AI is a more important skill than algebra or Continue reading

James O'keefe spent 49 minutes today, Feb. 20, 2023 explaining in a video the entire, not well known, train of events leading to his departure from his investigative watchdog group Project Veritas. It happened strangely forced by a hostile Board just days after their huge expose of the Pfizer executive admitting apparent improper actions related to their Covid vaccines. Continue reading

The Lake County, FL Republican Party meets next week on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 7pm at the Howey Mansion in Howey-in-the-Hills, FL and it should be exciting with a new Chair, Anthony Sabatini, and a vote on supporting Trump. All Lake County, FL Republicans should attend and see the Mansion. Continue reading

Amazingly, it seems that Joe Biden's Top Secret stuff is everywhere. A local blogger (Me - Vance Jochim) found an entire box labeled "Top Secret - for Joe Biden Only" in his trash can in Lake County, FL on MLK Day, Jan. 16, 2023. Most prior Biden stashes were Top Secret Federal documents, but this Top Secret Joe Biden box contained highly questionable publications and T-shirts. Watch the short video to see the contents. https://youtu.be/SLTtyNJFIVk Note: If YouTube shuts down this video, go to our Rumble account Rumble.com/FloridaVance for the backup copy being uploaded soon. Vance Jochim - [email protected] Tavares, FL Continue reading

The new tool, ChatGPT from Microsoft's OpenAI is exploding in coverage on the internet with many YouTube videos on how to use it for professional fields, to make money, to write term papers, to write programming code, etc. I cover some of the benefits and issues and strategies needed for my local Lake County, FL School District. Continue reading

Conservative Texas vlogger Debbie Georgatos of AmericaCanWeTalk.com had a great video segment on Rumble on Jan. 12, 2023, explaining a growing TexasFirst.org movement to uncover and document election integrity issues and get legislative changes to improve election integrity. Read about the event and get the links here. Continue reading

Updated Jan 15, 2023: The video links were added for this meeting for the Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, Lake County FL Legislative Delegation, which is the four FL legislators representing Lake County, FL and they will decide on a local law about Rural Protection Areas, as well as listen to 35+ citizens, agency reps and community groups asking for support or funding for their projects or issues. Continue reading

The Lake County, FL County Board is having their monthly planning and zoning meeting to review and approve P&Z proposals, including high density developments without concern for their effects on traffic gridlock. Citizens need to take action, or you won't be able to drive to work in my opinion. Continue reading

A garbage hauler newly contracted by the Lake County, FL government has missed at least five recycling pickup runs in my County residential area, and we discuss the issue. Continue reading

A Mt. Dora, FL business lost $30,000 through a sophisticated phone scam where the victim shared info that allowed $30,000 to be transferred out of his checking account. Read the details and protect yourself. Continue reading

Dec., 13, 2022 Tonight's Lake County, FL Republican Party met in Eustis, FL to elect new officers. Former State Rep. Anthony Sabatini was elected Chair, 1st Vice Chair was Tom Vail (recent candidate for FL House), 2nd Vice Chair was Sam Durrance, Corresponding Secty was Sue Ferrera Parent, Recording Secty was June Lang. Additionally, five District Managers were elected: 1 - ?? Benoit (Chuck?), 2 - Kris Jurski, 3 - Loretta Garretson, 4 - Alex Whicher, 5 - Apóstol Ludy López. Congratulations to all. The trend was to elect people who were active or supporting of more aggressive policy stances on election integrity, and other policies needing action by the RPOF. Vance Jochim Continue reading

Tavares, FL Oct. 2, 2016 Our TEN year anniversary is this coming Wed., Oct. 5, 2016, so naturally our main 7 year old Windows 7 desktop computer, "Miami", crashed and is in the shop for a new motherboard. THUS I have to use an older backup laptop, Atlanta, to post to the blog, which is a pain. BUT, we are using this as an excuse to celebrate our anniversary and build a new computer, Dallas, from scratch to handle editing and video editing duties. I describe the new system below for you computer geeks. Fortunately almost every application I use is cloud based, so they can be used on my older alternate laptop. EXCEPT, I use Outlook email on my PC which uses contact lists, email archives, etc on the PC. Everything is backed up, but it is a pain to move email lists etc. to the old reliable HP laptop I am using ("Atlanta"), so there will be no email distribution until Miami is back. I also cannot edit videos on this old TEN year HP laptop purchased about when this blog started, so I can't upload videos yet to the "FiscalRangersFlorida" YouTube channel. However, to celebrate the ten... Continue reading

This is a quick commentary on the investiture of two re-elected Lake County, FL County Commissioners, Leslie Campione and Sean Parks. In addition, I make a recommendation who should be selected on Dec. 6th as the next Chair of the Lake County Board. Continue reading

Lake County has announced action steps to speed up collection of yard waste and garbage due to delays caused by Hurricane Ian cleanup tasks. This is for the Lake County residents, and City Residents are affected separately by their city trash hauling operations. Before Hurricane Ian, I gave public input at the County Board meeting about missed trash pickups after finding out the staff had no method to track hauler follow ups when a pickup was missed and complaint filed with the County. "Managers" in government need to "MANAGE" actions under them with status reports etc. and not just hope a contractor like a hauler follows up on a complaint. When residents send a complaint about missed garbage pickups, the County needs to TRACK such complaints to completion like IT departments do with incident reporting and status tracking software. Not doing so is in my mind management malpractice. As of Nov. 6, my yard waste trash has been sitting now in my driveway for THIRTEEN days. I have resulted in putting some of it in the normal garbage bins which ARE picked up on the assigned date (Fridays). If Lake County misses collecting your yard waste or garbage, send an... Continue reading

Century Link attempts illegal underground fiber optic cable installation in my neighborhood but we caught them. Continue reading

Pete Antonacci speaking recently about Florida election integrity before he died mysteriously. This devastating expose report below on Florida voting system loopholes is from researcher and data analyst Kris Jurski of The-Peoples-Audit.org who I have covered before and uploaded videos of him at Rumble.com/FiscalRangers. This information calls into question the "integrity" of Florida's voting system espoused by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Pictured is the recently deceased Director of the Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security, Pete Antonacci, who still has not been replaced. Is that "Office" all a shiny object to distract voters from the evidence shown below by Kris Jurski? WATCH the new Catching Fire News video linked below that features Kris Jurski and also READ the report below. Then use your anger to share this with others and call or email your Florida elected officials. Vance Jochim - FiscalRangers.com Published Oct. 14, 2022 ================================================= The webpage for this report is: https://www.fiscalrangers.com/2022/10/new-research-report-on-floridas-election-syndicate-of-democrat-china-connected-vendors.html Subject: Florida Election Syndicate With less than 30 days left before this crucial election, this video is a must watch: https://rumble.com/v1nsn8o-floridas-election-syndicate.html You would assume that Florida ballots, especially ready-to-mail ballots, were all done locally with the direct supervision of your local SOE, but you would be very... Continue reading

Here is the web link to the official Nov. 8, 2022 Federal, State & local voter guide of recommendations from the Lake County, FL Republicans. It includes recommendations for Judges and city council officials in Lake County, FL. You can download the front and back page pdf's and print them. Continue reading

Here is info on why Lake County, FL yard waste haulers are not picking up routine yard waste - Oct. 13, 2022. Continue reading

The Lake County, FL Republicans passed a resolution to send to FL Gov. DeSantis and other officials calling for an "investigation and review" of the August 23, 2022 Florida Primary Election based upon significant evidence uncovered by researchers. I will post it on this page as soon as it is issued - probably tomorrow, Oct. 5, 2022. They also voted for Barbara Price to be the new Lake County, FL Republican State Committee Woman. Vance Jochim Oct. 4, 2022 FiscalRangers.com Continue reading

This linked article covers issues affecting the Nov. 8th election voting due to Hurricane Ian damage. Continue reading

Governor Ron DeSantis recently appointed five new or renewing members to the Lake-Sumter State College District Board of Trustees. I was at the recent Sept. 21m 2022 LSSC Board meeting and the picture is from there. Here is the Link to the LSSC Board of Trustees which has pictures of the members. Below is the official press release. Governor Ron DeSantis Appoints Five to the Lake-Sumter State College District Board of Trustees On August 26, 2022, in News Releases, Recent Appointments, by Staff TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Bret Jones, Timothy Morris, and Marlene O’Toole and the reappointment of David Hidalgo and Ivy Parks to the Lake-Sumter State College District Board of Trustees. Bret Jones Jones, of Clermont, is a Lawyer for the Law Offices of Bret Jones, P.A. He is a member of Cornerstone Hospice Foundation and Imagine Schools at South Lake. Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in management from Webber International University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida. Timothy Morris Morris, of Leesburg, is the Vice President of Ernie Morris Enterprises, Inc. He is a member of the National Office Products Association, and Rotary International and is the Treasurer... Continue reading

A quick idea of how bad the "Woke" hiring requirements are in California derived from ESG. I was reviewing job postings for internal auditors on Indeed.com. A Protiviti ad for an "Orlando Internal Audit and Financial Advisory Consultant" included the following in their job criteria, saying "Protiviti will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance." The same was specified for Los Angeles. A search on "California Fair Chance Ordinance" indicates it must be a state wide regulation requiring cities to implement it by Ordinance. So, if your employer hires a SF or LA based or California "Internal Audit Consultant" from Protiviti or perhaps any other firm, they may have a criminal history. I wonder if Protiviti discloses that to their clients. Protiviti Internal Audit Heroes Here is the link to the ad posting. Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com - retired Internal Audit Manager Published Sept. 24, 2022 === Continue reading

Florida ranks #1 in a new Heritage Foundation Education Freedom Report Card report, announced at the Heritage Foundation launch event in Orlando on Sept. 9, 2022, which I attended. They announced state rankings in a new study to evaluate "Education Freedom" in all the states. It ended with a speech on Education reforms championed by FL Gov. Ron DeSantis. Florida State Education Commissioner Manny Diaz also attended and spoke. A link HERE shows the official Heritage Foundation video stream of most of the conference. See the separate Twitter link below to the ending presentation by FL Gov Ron DeSantis. Event Agenda: https://events.heritage.org/education/agenda I will also be posting my full video of the event soon to the YouTube/FiscalRangersFlorida channel as well as the Rumble.com/FiscalRangers channel, including a speech by FL Gov. Ron DeSantis. But right now, you can use the above link to see all the panels, including an overview of how rankings were calculated, and below you can use the Twitter link to see Florida Ron DeSantis's speech on his Education policies and reforms. Here is the 58 minute Twitter link to Ron DeSantis's speech at the Heritage Foundation Education event. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1djGXlgaeLjGZ Event speaker list with bios: https://events.heritage.org/education/2415719 The state... Continue reading

Twitter needs to dump the bias... Continue reading