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Amid Election Day buzz, labor union members and law enforcement agents spoke in support of a request by Sheriff Clovis Watson Jr. to receive extra employee funding.
No. 1 Constitutional Amendment Article VII, Section 4 and Article XII, Section 42: Failed
Candidates Mary Alford, Marihelen Wheeler and Ken Cornell won the District 1, District 2 and DIstrict 4 County Commission races, respectively.
Candidates Ed Book and Casey Willits won the District 2 and 3 City Commission races, respectively.
Florida’s local and statewide races brought Gainesville voters to the polls in full force this Election Day.
Republican Keith Perry defeated Democrat Rodney Long winning the District 9 Florida Senate seat with 65.6% of the vote, as of 10 p.m.
Yvonne Hayes Hinson, D-Gainesville, was reelected to the Florida House of Representatives, defeating her Republican challenger Hollye Merton by 43 percentage points, as of 9:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Harvey Ward defeated Ed Bielarski in the race for Gainesville mayor, securing 57.44% of the votes as of 9:17 p.m.
Cowboy hats, country music and flaring pyrotechnics filled the Granville Plantation event venue as around 200 attendees showed up to ring in Rep. Kat Cammack’s second Congressional term.
After months of campaigning, canvassing and collecting donations, candidates are leaving it all in the voters’ hands.
A lawsuit against Alachua County Commission Chair Marihelen Wheeler claiming she wasn’t living in District 2 during the Aug. 23 primaries marked the newest chapter of a continued countywide issue: officials potentially living outside the areas they represent in office.
About 100 Gainesville community members gathered to stand in solidarity and unity with the Jewish community Nov. 4.
With general elections rapidly approaching Nov. 8, Gainesville’s political scene will welcome new faces as a majority of the Gainesville City Commission may be replaced come January.
Gainesville commissioners welcomed international Polish city officials Wednesday, after raising thousands in less than a day for their ongoing refugee crisis.
Mayoral candidates Ed Bielarski and Harvey Ward went head-to-head over issues like utility rates, affordable housing and gun violence during a debate Tuesday night.
Visitors to Alachua County could soon spend their vacations camping on local farms after a recent commission decision.
Money talks in politics. And with the general election just around the corner, it’s getting louder.
Both Gainesville and the UF campus expect to take on new leadership in the coming month, leaving many to question how the two will interact in the future.
Under the colored lights and fog emitting from the stage, children ran around the venue and couples danced in the moonlight while the crowd sang along to Mudcrutch’s “Scare Easy,” kicking off a memorable weekend for Tom Petty fans.
The first Gainesville Pride Festival in three years was also the first ever for Manuel Simons and Andrew Brown, his partner of 28 years.
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