UF Student Government is corrupt, opaque and ineffective. What do we do?
The current problem
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The current problem
In its final meeting Wednesday, the GRU Authority Board passed a resolution authorizing changes to its customer-owned renewable generation policy, adopting a new structure for billing its solar-owning customers.
The Alachua County supervisor of elections Kim Barton counted parent and teacher votes for the Yes Newberry initiative at Mentholee Northflee Municipal building Wednesday afternoon.
Set to help students withstand indoctrination in colleges, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill requiring the education of “dangers and evils of communism” in Florida public schools Wednesday.
The click of a Zoom link brought over 30 people together April 17 for a discussion of academic freedom through the lens of UF professors, students and Gainesville community members.
North Central Florida homeless service providers avoided a near miss of losing over a million dollars in federal funding after finding a replacement lead agency, announced the Taskforce Fore Ending Homelessness Wednesday.
The No. 4 Florida Gators gymnastics team will compete in the second round of the NCAA Semifinals Thursday in a quad meet against No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 8 Alabama and No. 5 Utah. Florida will need to place in the top-six to move onto the finals. The first round teams will compete Thursday at 4:30 p.m. and includes: No. 2 Louisiana State, No. 19 Stanford, No. 12 Arkansas and No. 3 California.
The Florida men’s basketball team added a valuable piece to its future backcourt, Wednesday.
The tensions were high the last time the two teams faced.
In the past week, there’s been a lot of conversation around RTS buses and what funding they will have in the future. As someone who was first made aware there was an issue between the City of Gainesville and UF when this was made public April 9, I’ve been learning as much as I can before I officially take office April 24 to have better and more nuanced conversations. Let’s talk about what’s been happening, and what the future will look like relating to RTS:
A Gainesville middle school was placed on “secure status” Monday while officers found two people accused of stealing a handgun from a nearby home.
Florida Gators standout guard Leilani Correa was selected by the Indiana Fever with the 27th overall pick in Monday night’s WNBA Draft.
On Saturday morning, hundreds lined up outside the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, with some arriving as early as 9 a.m. to make the two-hour long wait. Although there was a football game later in the day, the students were not there for sports. Instead, they were crowded around a pastel pink truck, eager to win free merchandise from popular e-retail brand Edikted.
Under the blistering Florida sun, the sound of African percussion and excited attendees echoed throughout downtown Gainesville Saturday as it became a creative space for a multitude of Florida-based artists and trailblazers.
As each word left the mouth of Florida Gators baseball head coach Kevin O’Sullivan Saturday, his disappointment became ever more apparent.
A regulation amendment traveling through the Florida Board of Governors will increase students’ options to complete the civic literacy requirement added in 2017 to state education statutes.
Max Daugherty is a 36-year-old Gainesville resident who was declared blind on his 16th birthday.“It was the worst birthday of my life,” he said.
Noah Sams has decided it's finally time to transform the Gainesville fashion scene. Since his freshman year at UF, he has slowly curated a collection that transcends anything he’s ever seen on the city’s catwalks.
Couples walked hand in hand and children sat on their parents’ shoulders as gusts of wind blew past, lending a reprieve from the hot sun. While they strolled past the art festival booths, wind chimes rang and live music played.
Heavyweight boxing champion Sid Foreman was murdered the night of the party at 6:48 p.m. At 6:52 p.m., partygoers ran out of napkins to go with their pizza.