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In the halls of Tallahassee during Summer 2024, bipartisan legislation designed to reduce recidivism, ease reentry into society and reduce the financial burden on families of incarcerated individuals were all struck down at the pen of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Seventeen-year-old Sanabil Wajid won’t be old enough to vote in November, but she’s committed to ensuring her peers can.
Gainesville has no shortage of jobs, but competition for part-time work is stiff in a college town saturated with students.
Most of you probably don’t know how quiet it is here when you’re gone. It’s really, really quiet. So quiet you can hear the construction crew tearing up the road and creating your next traffic jam a half mile away. Or the other construction crew a half mile in the other direction. You hear the more-than-occasional preview tour coming through, and you hope they get inside somewhere before that thunderstorm you see rolling up drenches them.
As a Florida Gator, it's easy to get swamped. There are classes to attend, organizations to join, friends to meet and laundry to do. Add that to a campus bustling with tens of thousands of students, and college can quickly become overwhelming.
Journalism is cutthroat.
I joined the Alligator believing I wanted to be better than it.
I used to say my goal in life was to leave a legacy. If death came knocking at my door, I wanted to be able to say people would remember me fondly for the things I did.
The Florida Gators wasted no time in their offseason to tighten up the team’s core values: work ethic and culture. While efforts stay prioritized on improving the Gators’ physical attributions, head coach Billy Napier is excited about the intrinsic factors.
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With the Matheson Museum walls swathed in Alachua County voting history, the Smithsonian added an additional six panels of U.S. voting history.
On a hot Sunday afternoon, families of East Gainesville gathered for free food, music and a back-to-school backpack giveaway to celebrate the launch of the One Community Family Resource Center.
Since the recent overturning of Florida’s restrictions on transgender care for minors and adults, I can't help but think about the recent wave of bigoted jabs at higher education in our state.
Since she was 7 years old, Vanessa Nottingham considered herself a performer and actor.
For over 50 years, Peaceful Paths, a state-certified domestic abuse network and shelter, has been a resource for victims in the North Florida region. The center provides resources like emergency shelter, a 24-hour helpline, victim advocacy, crisis counseling, support groups and other services to survivors of domestic violence.
Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, pro-Palestinian protestors across Florida and the nation are calling on universities to publicly disclose and divest from their financial partnerships with Israel. At UF, home to the largest population of undergraduate Jewish students in the country, protestors’ demands have gone unacknowledged by the university. After reviewing publicly available information on UF’s business partnerships, investment portfolio and contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, The Alligator identified UF’s financial ties with Israel and organizations supplying military aid to the nation.The UF Divest Coalition, an assembly of student-led and community pro-Palestinian organizations, began occupying the Plaza of the Americas in the heart of UF’s campus April 24 to demand the university make its financial partnerships with Israeli-affiliated defense companies transparent.
John Brinkman poses at The Independent Florida Alligator on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024.
As a transgender man, Brooke Clayton’s first preference on the housing application was the Springs Complex, the only UF dorm that offers gender neutral housing through the Lavender Living Learning Community. Then, his preference disappeared from the application May 7 — a week before he had to submit it.
Coffee shop Curia On The Drag filled with laughter and chatter Thursday evening as kids ran around its gallery space showcasing their creations. Collages, self-portraits, sketchbooks and small magazines — all handmade by artists aged 8 to 14 — marked the culmination of their after-school program with La Selva Art Studios.
During the first Gainesville Regional Utilities meeting of the session Thursday, directors of the new authority were elected and took the oath of office.
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