UF's marching band prepares for their Homecoming show.
In order to meet its daily demands, the Independent Florida Alligator will hold its second open house of the semester today from 2 to 5 p.m.
In the last couple of days there have been a number of comments posted to the Alligator Web site with complaints about the site being down and finding articles difficult.
This morning I came into this newsroom and got one call regarding our coverage - or lack thereof - of the tragedy at Northern Illinois University. I have also gotten one letter about the issue, so I thought I would address it here, because several readers might have been scratching their heads about why that wasn't front-page news.
On Thursday, Feb. 8, we ran an article based on a report from the Gainesville Police Department about guns painted to look like toys. GPD provided us with a photo, which we ran in the paper and online. As far as we knew, the entire issue was about disguising guns in order to confuse law enforcement.
Hi, Alligator readers.
Due to a number of issues that came up last semester with open comments, we turned on registration for comments at the beginning of this semester.
Many times, reporters' sources will want to have some say in what
An observant, if bored, reader e-mailed me last week noting that there seemed to be more spelling errors in the paper as of late. The reader wondered whether it was because of new-semester blues or something along those lines.
On Monday we launched a new project, called Gainesville Explorer.
In Wednesday’s Alligator, an article incorrectly reported that a student fee to help fund Reitz Union renovations would include a $1.50 fee …