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Two months into UF’s mostly online Fall semester, students and faculty alike are still struggling with the new virtual classroom environment.
Public Defender Stacy Scott usually started her day with defendants’ first court appearances in the Alachua County Courthouse.
Clovis Watson will soon be the future sheriff of Alachua County.
UF Student Government has long been a legal and public relations liability to our university. Some years, our Student Body President gets arrested. Other years, SG drags UF into a lawsuit.
Alachua County Commission
She was born in the Jim Crow South. At 20, she dedicated her life and mind to protecting all Americans, even those who oppressed her, from the threat of Nazism. She was the first African American woman in the U.S. to receive a graduate degree in physics — later earning another master’s degree in the field.
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Michael Perry was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana during his time at Santa Fe college. Thirteen years later, Perry still remembers feeling terrified that people – his grandfather – would see his mugshot without knowing the full story.
For Kim Brown, it felt like a community member died when the Newberry Branch of the Alachua County Library District closed March 15 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alachua County Sheriff candidates discussed COVID-19 response, police accountability, the school-to-prison pipeline and decarceration at a Saturday forum.
To Alejandro Ortiz, the message is clear: he isn’t wanted in America.
A few months ago, Bill Gallagher was grabbing pizza at Leonardo’s Pizza by the Slice and saw two young men sitting together, hand-in-hand. They looked young enough to be freshmen.
Justin Chirila frantically refreshed the browser on his laptop the night before his Advanced Placement macroeconomics exam. The high school senior had lost the WiFi in his house, and without it, he couldn’t complete the test.
On Monday, an email with the subject line “COVID-19 RENT STRIKE NOW” appeared in the inboxes of about 53,000 UF students.
The principles of journalism are simple: be truthful, be accurate, be independent, be fair, be impartial, be human and be accountable. Our staff strives to meet these goals every day as they write, edit, photograph or copy edit. Keeping the UF community and Alachua County residents informed is a mission of ours; it’s personal.
The fourth telephone town hall meeting was held Wednesday night to discuss health care for the homeless, unemployment resources and other resident concerns amid the spread of COVID-19.
Student Government is designed to be a nonpartisan entity, but that can change when student leaders voice their opinions on the presidential primaries.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in a press conference this morning that four UF students have tested positive for COVID-19.
Classes are moving online and students are moving out as UF continues to monitor the coronavirus pandemic.
Dance Marathon has been canceled and former presidential primary candidate Andrew Yang will not speak on campus as originally planned. The changes come one day after UF President Kent Fuchs advised students to return home until March 30 due to precautions with coronavirus.
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