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Saturday, September 27, 2025

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MULTIMEDIA  |  VIDEO

Video: Up in the Air

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The Voyage of a Homecoming Float
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Video: The Voyage of a Homecoming Float

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Florida Alligator
METRO

Deli owner fights tough times, remains optimistic

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.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A serious need for America

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.


Florida Alligator
METRO

Schools locked down after robbery

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.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Public education mars America’s desire for greatness

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.


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