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City to make over park
By VICTORIA ISRAELS Alligator Contributing Writer | Mar. 24, 2010The City of Gainesville’s Possum Creek Park is getting a makeover.
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City to get snazzy bus line
By Cristina Rabaza | Mar. 24, 2010Before the semester’s end, students taking bus trips from Gainesville will be able to sit back — or lie down — and enjoy the ride.
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RTS gets biodiesel grant
By EDEN JOYNER | Mar. 24, 2010The Gator Nation just got a little bit greener.
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Google forum offers answers
By CAROLINE LEWIS | Mar. 23, 2010At a public forum Tuesday, Dan Rua told a group of about 30 people why Google should give a gig for Gainesville.
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Inventors spar for $50K
By ANNIE BOGGS | Mar. 23, 2010Florida’s inventors now have the opportunity to earn a little more cash to fund their creations.
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Pepsi products shed calories
By ALLYSON FOX | Mar. 23, 2010UF’s vending machines will still look the same, but many of the products inside them might look and taste a little different when one corporation makes big changes.
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BUSINESS
Magazine gives M.B.A. program 'excellent' rating
By BRANDON BRESLOW | Mar. 22, 2010UF’s Internet M.B.A. program is one of two in the world to earn a rating of “excellent” in The Economist’s “Distance-learning special 2010.”
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Commission allocates $404K for public safety
By MINCH MINCHIN | Mar. 22, 2010The Alachua County Commission voted unanimously Monday morning to give the Alachua County Department of Public Safety an additional $404,565.
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County proposes uniforms
By SAMANTHA DELGADO | Mar. 22, 2010The School Board of Alachua County released a proposal on Monday for mandatory uniforms in its schools.
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Red Mango to join list of Gainesville froyo shops
Mar. 22, 2010Bernadette Castro and her family were told they could open a frozen yogurt shop anywhere in the state.
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Students win cruise at club fundraiser for Haiti
By Joey Flechas | Mar. 21, 2010They ran relay races, played tug-of-war and won a two-day cruise to the Bahamas.
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India Fest draws 2,000 to Santa Fe College
By MATT HARRINGER | Mar. 21, 2010Subhajit Sengupta was standing onstage in front of about 200 people. He was singing a song half the crowd couldn’t understand, but they tapped their feet to the beat anyway.
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10,000 welcome spring at the Spring Garden Festival
By MEG WAGNER | Mar. 21, 2010About 10,000 people attended the 20th annual Spring Garden Festival which celebrated the start of spring with about 200 vendors selling artwork and plants.
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POLITICS
Mayoral candidates discuss outcome, plan for election
Mar. 21, 2010With the run-off for Gainesville mayor’s seat three weeks away, both candidates aren’t wasting any time mobilizing forces for one last round in the political arena.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
No one is qualified to judge shooting incident except for investigators
By MATTHEW LAMBIE | Mar. 18, 2010The line from Wednesday’s editorial on the Kofi Adu-Brempong shooting that reads, “We also question why he was shot in the jaw rather than a safer location,” is beyond ignorant.
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Residents encouraged to create fake $100 bills
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Mar. 18, 2010Usually the creation of counterfeit bills is discouraged.
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Countywide scavenger hunt to start Saturday
By RACHEL MANKO | Mar. 18, 2010Michael Lee, a UF mechanical engineering freshman, and three of his friends have spent almost every Friday night this semester driving around Alachua County trying to plan clues for a scavenger hunt.
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12 scarf down ‘nuclear’ wings
By STEPHANIE RAMIREZ | Mar. 18, 2010Sweat, tears and hot wings made for a fiery smackdown Thursday night at the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s on West University Avenue.
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Museum to host 'dig'
By LEANDRA VALENTINE | Mar. 18, 2010Tales about snakes more than 40 feet long will be told, plate tectonics will be explained with Oreos, and stones will become jewelry Saturday at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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Same-sex couples get say in Census
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Mar. 17, 2010For the first time in history, gay and lesbian couples will be counted on the U.S. Census form.
