City helps about 700 homeless downtown
More than 630 meals were served for free to Gainesville’s homeless Thursday morning as part of the 12th annual Breakfast on the Plaza and Homeless Services Fair.
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More than 630 meals were served for free to Gainesville’s homeless Thursday morning as part of the 12th annual Breakfast on the Plaza and Homeless Services Fair.
Everybody with cable TV and a proclivity toward captivating car-wreck television has an opinion on the sorta-famous young mothers on MTV’s “Teen Mom,” but this week marks the first time police started a case against someone based solely on what the baby momma did on MTV.
Florida has some hardware missing from its trophy case, and the UF Student Government has taken notice.
Anthony’s Wood Fired Pizza is ready to bring the “real deal,” and amid 48,784 students, they have plenty of mouths to feed.
Facing intense public scrutiny and lower approval ratings than Casey Anthony, Congressional Democrats decided this week to do the one thing that could give them a lift in the polls.
UF students won’t see Alachua County issues when they look at the general election ballot on Nov. 2 unless they’ve designated it as their legal place of residence.
While many new students might be completely unaware, there are about four dozen free-roaming bison hidden on the 21,000 acres of Paynes Prairie.
Newly released statistics show one out of seven Americans are now living below the poverty line, and the poverty rate in Alachua County and Florida are even higher than the national average.
I was emboldened by news last week that robotics finally made the technological leap forward necessary to create the one thing that can conceivably save our country from collapsing under the weight of our own self-importance — lying robot politicians.
At first glance, Dove World Outreach Center's plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11 seems like an easy target.
Judging by the tone of our current political climate, one would rightly assume that the results of the impending November elections might tear apart the very fabric of our society - especially the fabric of our society used in manufacturing jingoistic American flag T-shirts and vaguely racist bumper stickers.
Bill Cervone's statement clearly indicates that he believes police officers can, in the name of self-defense, shoot any person in their presence armed with a possibly deadly weapon - such as a cane, which is hardly different from a table leg - and wielding it in a dangerous manner.
As a corporation, British Petroleum is deeply saddened by the recent leaks in our interwebs tube that have pumped out an ever-increasing number of highly sensitive and damaging internal documents into the vital Gulf of Public Opinion. We have prepared the following memo as a “top kill procedure” on the destructive flow of information by piping loads of crap into real leaks of BP’s corporate philosophy:
Gainesville residents who walk with canes are advised not to lift them above their waist in the presence of law officers. Doing so may result in you being legally shot, or so argues Bill Cervone in his statement regarding Kofi Adu-Brempong.
After having written several posts on one of the most promising and popular topics of all time- social networking, I feel quite nostalgic bidding adieu with this last post of mine. Through the last few blogs, we have learnt about the rise, growth, dangers, benefits and accessibility of social networking Web sites.
Who could ever imagine that a question as simple as “What are you doing now” could prove to be engaging enough to attract more than 100 million users worldwide. The craze of Twitter is so much that in the first quarter of 2010, a staggering 4 billion tweets were posted. To follow and be followed is the new mantra now.
So all of us have heard about carbon footprints and their effect on the environment, but how many of us have heard about the metrics of Online Footprints and Virtual Social Influence and their effect on our lives?
One of the great mysteries of our time is the paradox of state government. Every few years, each state in our great union selects the brightest and most talented descendants of privilege and sends them away to plot out the boundaries of our daily lives. Just like clockwork, these seemingly divine figures time and again fail to deliver on their promises and the effulgent nature of their haircuts.
It is a well known fact that social networking Web sites have paved the way for instant information dissemination that can seep its way through the barriers of time and distance, thereby changing the lives of millions of people. However, reading about life-changing incidents of kindness and about meetings that were so perfectly and unexpectedly orchestrated through Facebook can only make you gasp in awe at the power of social networking Web sites!
At the Southern Forestry Conclave, the marquee event is the crosscut.