For advocates, the debate over the marching band’s culture is not merely an issue of extracurriculars. It also embodies an erasure of Black heritage from a school thats roots are intimately tied to a critical part of Black history: the desegregation era.
We’ve provided hard-hitting news the community depends on before, and it’s a challenge we’re ready to take on once again.
Nine mayoral candidates — including David Arreola, Ed Bielarski, Ansaun Fisher, Gary Gordon, Adam Rosenthal, Donald Shepherd, July Thomas and Harvey Ward — are on the ballot in the upcoming primary election. On the campaign trail, they’ve focused on issues such as affordable housing, Gainesville Regional Utilities rates and climate change.
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Delta-8 is one of many legal THC products sold on shelves. Delta-8's biggest appeals are its accessibility and legality, students say. Any 18-year-old has a menu of legal edibles to choose from, and 21-year-olds get an extended edition of THC prerolls, flower, wax cartridges and disposable vapes — no medical card required.
The director of UF Honors Program was fired Monday. He said he wasn’t given an explanation by the Board of Trustees.
Florida’s 2023 recruiting class received a massive boost over the weekend with three huge commitments along the defensive line. The Gators weren’t satisfied, however, adding a top commit for the 2024 class as well.
Friends and family of Terrell Bradley woke up early Friday morning to paint over the hateful messages left on a mural demanding justice for Bradley, who lost an eye to a Gainesville Police Department K-9 after he fled from police last month.
Police charged James Lawrence, a 55-year-old man whose address is listed at the shelter, with premeditated first-degree murder after responding to a call around 7:50 a.m. about a man found dead outside of the shelter.
Gainesville residents in multiple neighborhoods received flyers at their homes over the weekend condemning race-mixing and positing a Jewish conspiracy in an incident now under investigation by the Gainesville Police Department.
Faculty and alumni from the program’s last decade went to the event to see 28 groups of students’ solutions to the question: How might we effectively engage residents in a 21st century live/work/play community?
Gainesville will be the first city in Florida to eliminate exclusionary zoning after a 4-3 vote Thursday. Hundreds of residents crammed into City Hall, for the meeting, which the city scheduled to finish at 10 p.m. Going nearly two hours over the allotted time, the vote finally came shortly before midnight.
Gainesville residents attend the Shady Grove Primitive Baptist Church Wednesday to voice concerns about the city’s plan to eliminate exclusionary zoning.
El Departamento de Obras Públicas del Condado de Alachua comenzó la construcción de un nuevo sendero a lo largo de Archer Road el 14 de julio, nueve días después de que un hombre presuntamente acosara sexualmente a una mujer en el popular cercano Hawthorne Trail.
El martes, oficiales del Departamento Policial de la Universidad (UPD, por sus siglas en ingles) arrestaron a un estudiante de la UF por la supuesta agresión sexual y el secuestro de una mujer en el campus a principios de mes.
Cánticos por justicia llenaron el aire el 16 de julio por la noche cuando manifestantes se juntaron en el centro de Gainesville para protestar por el ataque del K-9 policial a Terrell Bradley el 10 de julio.
The newsroom’s soda-spotted carpets, crumb-ridden couch and nerd-infested nooks somehow kept my eyes bright as the rest of the city dimmed.
Pressure strips you down until there’s nothing left but who you are, deepest inside, and shoves a mirror in your eyes. Somewhere in all the split-second decisions and time on the clock, that mirror made its way to me.
The last time UF brought a new football and men’s basketball coach in the same year, neither lived up to expectations. As the Fall semester looms, Gator nation finds itself at a similar watershed.
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