Congress passes bill to keep current loan interest rate
By Erin Jester | July 2, 2012In 2007, Congress made an agreement allowing the interest rate on Stafford loans to drop from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent over five years.
In 2007, Congress made an agreement allowing the interest rate on Stafford loans to drop from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent over five years.
Many Republicans and conservatives have expressed the sentiment that Obamacare constitutes a takeover of the health care industry by the government.
On June 28, everyone on Facebook suddenly became U.S. Constitution wizards. Experts from the far right to the extreme left spouted their professional opinions and quoted the document like a Shakespearean scholar quotes Hamlet.
Weak steering currents kept Tropical Storm Debby from traveling along its original forecasted path toward Texas, according to the National Weather Service. Instead, it idled in the northeast Gulf of Mexico, resulting in a continuous downpour in Gainesville during the first half of the week.
More UF students are deciding to plant entrepreneurial roots in Gainesville — building companies with the readily available student work force.
It marks the film company’s first fairytale female protagonist and period piece. The main character, Merida, must undo a curse using her skill sets: bravery and archery.
A lot has changed since TutoringZone started helping UF students get through their classes in 1999.
As I end my time at UF, I would like to say the following words to my fellow Gainesvillians:
Under the Affordable Care Act, U.S. citizens must purchase health insurance or face a penalty.
Police have arrested a UF alumna for allegedly driving the car that hit a UF student on her bike, leaving her injured.
The Gainesville Police welcomed its newest K-9 unit dog, Roo, on Wednesday afternoon after a $6,500 donation from The Pantry Inc. allowed the department to purchase a new police dog.
In a close decision with an unexpected tiebreaker, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the national health care plan pushed by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.
A team of UF researchers has received a $1.5 million grant to study the cause of colon cancer.
At around 2:45 p.m., Ghulam Yahya Mujtaba, 62, threatened to stab another man with a knife in a laundry room at an apartment complex at 935 SW Ninth St., according to police.
A flood warning has been issued for parts of Alachua County.
A tree fell on a carpet cleaning van leaving one man in critical condition.
Two misguided columns that appeared in the June 14th edition of the Alligator demonstrate the perverse anti-government ideology that is consuming many of our young people, at the expense of reason.
Well, it’s the end of Summer A, which means the Alligator will be on break next week. However, we have a lot to cover this week, so sit tight, relax and prepare for our document-withholding-amnesty-granting-substance-banning-cancer-curing-animal-crashing-studio-bashing edition of...
I’ve been a student senator since the last student government elections in spring, and one thing has been made abundantly clear in my short time in the Student Senate: the Unite Party doesn’t like being told that they’re wrong or that they’re corrupt and incompetent or even that you want to amend one of their bills to be grammatically correct.
Well, I’m just going to come right out and say it. President Obama is arguably the worst president in American history. Never have the American people been sold such a bill of goods as they have with this man.