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Friday, April 24, 2026

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Florida Alligator
Metro

Occupy protesters ask to extend hours

About 30 Occupy Gainesville members asked the City Commission on Thursday for permission to stay on Bo Diddley Community Plaza after public hours end at 11:30 p.m. rather than protest on the sidewalks at night.


Florida Alligator
Opinion

Access to genome will advance medicine

The Human Genome Project is a mind-blowing development that has engaged scientists for the past 20 years. It can identify thousands of genes in human DNA and determine the sequences of 3 billion chemical base pairs. 


Florida Alligator
Opinion

US policy has only worsened poverty

Even though poverty has always existed, the seeds of the current division between the haves and the have-nots began about 60 years ago. Ever since the government's original attempt to solve the problem of poverty with programs, court decisions and amendments, the fixes only made things worse.



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