Congressional hopeful Rush denies wrongdoing, Yoho responds
By Kelcee Griffis | Apr. 3, 2014Despite news reports about his attempts to scrub his online record, Jake Rush’s campaign maintains he did nothing wrong.
Despite news reports about his attempts to scrub his online record, Jake Rush’s campaign maintains he did nothing wrong.
Jake Rush said he did not write violent, sexual comments as Chazz Darling.
Jake Rush is running for U.S. Congress. He’s a lawyer. And, sometimes, when he’s not working, he’s also Lord Staas van der Winst.
Predictably, this first week of classes was a blur of syllabi, underheated RTS buses and overpriced textbooks. But you made it!
Despite the three years that remain in his term, for all intents and purposes, it appears that Barack Obama’s time as president is over. Some may feel sadness and disappointment, others pure jubilation. Regardless of how you feel about the president and his policies, the notion that someone’s presidency could effectively end three years before it should is damaging to the American government and our country.
Vegetarians like 18-year-old Annika Goldman can rejoice: Subway will be included in the Spring 2014 meal plan.
Last week, Virginia, New Jersey and New York City had high-profile elections that garnered national attention. For the first time in more than 20 years, New York City has a Democratic mayor. Virginia — one of the most purple of states in the country — ended its bitter gubernatorial election when Democrat Terry McAuliffe won the governorship. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie retained his office and swiftly defeated his opponent.
The highly anticipated film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” hits movie screens across the country Friday. I haven’t read the much-heralded novel — or its subsequent sequels — but by all accounts, it’s a great novel. If the film is successful, it will likely launch yet another franchise based on a wildly popular series of young adult novels, following in the footsteps of “Harry Potter,” “Twilight” and the “Hunger Games,” to name a few.
MELROSE, Fla. — Watching the Gators struggle against Missouri in the Blue Water Bay restaurant, a Florida Libertarian governor candidate ate fried fish and waited.
Integrity is an important ideal in a democracy. Politicians should have integrity, and laws should be upheld and applied by the same standard. It’s no wonder, then, that Gov. Rick Scott is rolling out Project Integrity.
The dysfunction that plagues the political system in the United States is currently on full display. The federal government has been shut down for about two weeks with no apparent resolution in sight.
Carl Bovard lets visitors play with tiger cub Summer at Single Vision, a wildlife sanctuary in Melrose. But new legislation may prevent the public from interacting with cubs like Summer.
The first day of voting yielded a healthy turnout for the Fall 2013 Student Government elections.
Labor organizations gathered outside the local office of U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) on Tuesday afternoon to protest the federal government shutdown.
The federal government shut down at midnight because of a standstill in budget negotiations between the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
After weeks of campaigning, voting for the Fall 2013 Student Government elections begins today.
Historically, the Alligator has chosen to endorse one party over another within Student Government.
Last month, I wrote a column about Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.), the congressman who represents Gainesville, and his support for cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as food stamps. Yoho, along with 216 of his fellow House Republicans, displayed that support on Thursday when he voted to cut the SNAP program by $40 billion over the next 10 years.
After two days of crowdsourcing ideas from students last week, Students Party and Swamp Party released platforms for the Fall 2013 elections.