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Google’s self-driving car announcement raises brows

While some may view Google’s recent announcement of designing a self-driving car as having the potential to revolutionize the automobile industry, some are hesitant to embrace the new technology, citing a lack of confidence in the machine’s ability to navigate the roadways safely and accurately.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Advice to the new Tea Party Congress

Now that the bloodletting has stopped and we collectively nurse our wounds after a messy and angry election cycle, the mantle of governance weighs heavy on newly minted insurgent members of Congress.


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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Reader opposes airboat curfews

If the proposed ordinance to enforce a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. airboat curfew in Alachua County passes, it will cost county taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. During two years of public hearings on this issue, county reports have come to the conclusion that Alachua County has no compelling reason to adopt an airboat curfew. The county attorneys have indicated the same.


SPORTS  |  SOCCER

Gators clinch conference title

In 1995, Becky Burleigh started the Florida program not knowing what the future held. Flash forward 15 years, and the soccer coach has built the Gators into a national powerhouse, winning 11 conference championships, including five straight after a win in Columbia, S.C.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Mission accomplished? Rally prompts reasonable dilemma

I admit — I wept when Jon Stewart announced “The Rally to Restore Sanity.” Since entering college, this girl, who once thought there were no such things as “stupid people,” had grown into the kind of person burdened with very real nausea at a glimpse of Fox News. Or any news program, for that matter. Any message board, too. Any public political dialogue that descended into arrogance and insanity — and so many do. The reaction frustrated me, and when Stewart called for a rally to encourage reasonableness and respect in public discourse, I felt my anxieties might be soothed.


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