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Wendy’s brings antibiotic-free chicken to Gainesville
By Brooke Baitinger | Aug. 26, 2015Gainesville residents are some of the first in the nation to try Wendy’s new and improved chicken.
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POLITICS
Black Lives Movement needs legislative action
Aug. 26, 2015Black Lives Matter has become the most powerful movement in the national dialogue. Whether you agree with it or not, its message of detailing the inherent racism in many aspects of American life has kick-started an important conversation about race as it pertains to ideas such as white privilege. In the interest of full disclosure, I support the movement; I have been in situations that would have had a tremendously different outcome were I not white. With that said, the movement has problems that need resolving if it is going to create lasting, meaningful change in the country.
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RTS adds new bus routes closer to campus, discontinues others
By Kyle Bennett | Aug. 25, 2015Students this semester will have a different variety of bus options.
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New Scooters 4 Less store opens
By Briana Erickson | Aug. 25, 2015A new company has scooted onto 13th Street, ready to serve students during the new school year.
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Karma Cream adds new espresso machine
By Jordanne Laurito | Aug. 25, 2015Karma Cream is cranking up the caffeine this Fall.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Local man arrested for $2,650 theft, used money for drugs
By Giuseppe Sabella | Aug. 25, 2015Gainesville Police arrested a local man Monday after he reportedly burglarized a neighbor’s home and sold their belongings for drug money.
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Rush Week: A Problematic Distraction
Aug. 25, 2015The recent "controversy" over the recruitment video for the University of Alabama chapter of the Alpha Phi sorority was baffling. One critic, op-ed writer A.L. Bailey, rightfully derided the video as "so racially and aesthetically homogenous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so...unempowering." Snapchat provided live coverage of sorority rush week this past weekend, and anyone could readily observe that the problematic behavior criticized in the video is not only expected but is the norm.
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Cheese Daddy prepares to expand to two new locations
By Paola Asencio | Aug. 24, 2015Gainesville will soon have new spots to fill those grilled cheese cravings.
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UF’s She’s the First member helps Panamanian orphans
By Caitlin Ostroff | Aug. 24, 2015Ashley Lee is spending Christmas with her family — and about 30 orphans.
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UF professors' study sparks debate in St. Augustine
By Brooke Baitinger | Aug. 24, 2015As the St. Augustine City Commission debated a landowner’s proposal for development in a meeting Monday night, community members discussed the use of a study conducted by UF professors in the debate.
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Outback Steakhouse changes location
By Briana Erickson | Aug. 24, 2015Outback Steakhouse restaurant is staying true to their slogan and keeping things fresh with a new location.
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'Politically incorrect' hinders social issues
Aug. 24, 2015When someone embraces being politically incorrect, they really mean they are either: a) factually incorrect or b) a jerk. At the Aug. 6 Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump said, "I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either." Contrary to what Trump may believe, political correctness is not stopping relevant political discourse but, rather, pushing it toward the real issues.
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Local man barhops in wheelchair to raise awareness for those with disabilities
By Brooke Baitinger | Aug. 23, 2015Most people are familiar with rolling through Midtown on a Sunday night.
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ASO deputies cleared in shooting outside Winn-Dixie
By Giuseppe Sabella | Aug. 23, 2015The state attorney cleared two Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies last week in the May 12 shooting of a man outside the Northside Shopping Center Winn-Dixie, according to ASO spokesman Art Forgey.
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Activists discuss black oppression, confederate statue
By Hunter Williamson | Aug. 23, 2015Standing at the podium, Nailah Summers fought back tears as she listed names.
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County Commission, ACSO disagree over marijuana laws
By GRAHAM HALL | Aug. 5, 2015Alachua County commissioners and county attorney Michele Lieberman are in the process of investigating whether the county can legally begin issuing civil citations for marijuana possession — a move similar to Miami-Dade County, which voted June 30 to allow police to issue $100 civil citations or give the option of community service for the possession of up to 20 grams of marijuana.
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GoFundMe for ill UF alumna raises more than $16,000
By Patricia Potestades | Aug. 5, 2015Roselle Derequito started feeling sick a few weeks ago. She had a fever and a mild headache — nothing too out of the ordinary.
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GoFundMe for local man raises more than $16,000
By Ansley Pentz | Aug. 3, 2015When her friend was shot about two weeks ago, Clara Edwards decided to make a GoFundMe page to help cover his medical expenses.
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Paws on Parole brings dogs, inmates together
By Ansley Pentz | July 29, 2015Tania Rivera has been out of jail for less than a week, and she decided to go back.
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Survey: Floridians want to learn about endangered animals
By Ansley Pentz | July 29, 2015Katy Taggart went to Kenya last summer on a wildlife ecology trip and decided to create a UF club.
