Coming Out: Legislators should embrace ruling
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 20, 2010Virginia Phillips is quickly becoming the most powerful woman in America.
Virginia Phillips is quickly becoming the most powerful woman in America.
Perry McGriff, the Democratic candidate for the Florida Senate, is taking legal action over an attack advertisement endorsed by his opponent, the incumbent Republican Sen. Steve Oelrich.
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Many things have changed since Mary Wise became Florida’s coach in 1991.
After entering last season with serious questions about the point guard position, coach Billy Donovan believes he has four viable answers to start the new year.
Catalan singer-songwriter Pau Alabajos performed for more than 75 people at the Thomas Center Tuesday night in celebration of Catalan culture and its constrained music scene.
Look at Florida’s “Keys to Success” chart, and you will only see one assignment for the offense: succeed in the red zone.
About 50 students gathered in Orange and Brew on Tuesday night for guided discussions on culture in politics, in a open forum titled “Politics of Silence.”
Behind an unlit neon sign on 43rd Street, there’s a 25-year-old Gainesville institution. Paul Cakmis owns the place. He’s 61, round like Santa Claus but without the beard. When things were good — before the crash, the layoffs and the lists — the Gator football team would come and eat at the 43rd Street Deli.
It’s been a long and crazy road to these midterm elections with lots of rhetoric and lots of ridiculous commercials. However, now it’s time to have a moment of seriousness before we go to the polls in less than two weeks.
Two west Gainesville schools were temporarily locked down Tuesday as the county sheriff’s office searched for the man who robbed a local store at gunpoint and has yet to be caught.
Tickets to the game usually sell out within minutes of going on sale. This year, however, tickets were still for sale hours after they became available.
If the Tea Party gets any more laughs, or gets any crazier, we’re going to have to start wondering if it’s Kool-Aid in their cups rather than chai.
Students have made their voices heard by staying silent.
Anthony Taylor Minzie, 19, died early Saturday morning in his hometown of Gainesville, but his friends are using the social media tool to help his memory live on.
The Student Senate approved a resolution in opposition of block tuition at a meeting Tuesday night.
We’re proud of our justice system in this country. We don’t imprison Nobel Peace Prize winners like China does, unless you count that whole Martin Luther King Jr. situation when we threw the book at him for being black.
If you’ve done as much study of the Founding Fathers as I have, one fact starts to stick out time and again: none was the product of public education. That’s right, the greatest men of American history were all schooled either in the rooms of a private institution or by the best teacher in the world: real life.