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Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Program illustrates local mismanagement

s long as they avoid the monument to capitalism that is Butler Plaza, many denizens of Alachua County are able to convince themselves that the county is their own little bohemian paradise, an enlightened splotch of blue in an otherwise hopelessly red part of the state. Along with the ivory-tower idealism leaching out from UF, this attitude has resulted in a certain political party controlling local government practically unopposed for decades. Throw in a huge tax base that doesn't vote and doesn't care (that's you, students), and you have a recipe for disaster.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Turn of Phrase: Bush’s shift on Iraq timetable shows promise

Last week, in what appears to be a momentous and welcome shift, the Bush administration announced that it would be working with the Iraqi government to develop a "general time horizon" for the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq. According to White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have reached a verbal accord on the issue of setting what might otherwise be called a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq. But don't make the mistake of confusing the terms "timetable" and "general time horizon."


Florida Alligator
NEWS

Correction: UF to open media center

In Thursday's Alligator, a quote concerning fundraising in the article "UF to open media center" should have been attributed to John Wright, not Dave Carlson.


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