Last week, the Washington Navy Yard incident was the latest mass shooting to plague our country. Other shootings on this list include Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary School and the Aurora movie theater massacre.
The Washington Navy Yard shooting is one more dash of salt in the open wound of 2013. There have been at least 17 mass shootings since the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in December of 2012, making it impossible to ignore the obvious need for changes in legislation surrounding gun control.
Everyone is making a big deal about Florida’s quarterback situation and deservedly so.
Last week, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut nearly $40 billion from the country’s food stamps programs over the next 10 years. It was a huge slap in the face to millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table. Fortunately, the bill will die a quick death in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote an open letter to customers earlier this week requesting gun owners not bring their firearms when they pick up their morning latte.
A journalist’s job is to seek truth. Sometimes, that truth can be uncomfortable or shocking. In tragic events like Saturday’s shooting in Nairobi, Kenya, reality is simply horrifying.
Dear select horrible customers at Rockeys Dueling Piano Bar,
Who’s excited for the annual butt-whoopin’ that’s become the jorts-wearing rednecks vs. those toothless hillbillies (DISCLAIMER: If you kiss your cousins, eat raccoon backstraps for breakfast, live in the hills and play the fiddle for Friday night entertainment, STOP READING!).
Often, leaders are remembered for their failures rather than their accomplishments.
Each week, two alligatorSports columnists will debate the biggest looming matchup in college football. Today, Adam Lichtenstein and Adam Pincus preview No. 5 Stanford’s showdown against No. 23 Arizona State in Stanford, Calif., on Saturday at 7 p.m. on FOX.
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health care law in March 2010, Republicans at all levels of government have made every effort to weaken and sabotage the law.
Terry Jones’ insatiable hunger for the media’s spotlight was briefly fed last week when news of his arrest broke.
On Sept. 17, 1787 the Constitution of the United States was signed by 38 delegates during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
The college-dating scene seems to be a culture of not-quite-caring — an awkward landscape pocked with holes and valleys that trip us up on the way to understanding our relationships. Try drafting one text to the dime from last weekend. The metaphor will crystallize pretty quickly when you find yourself eight drafts deep and still unsure of what to say.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The faint smell of cow manure travels to the hallowed grounds from a campus farm just across the way. Rolling hills with lush trees resemble the opening scene from “Jurassic Park” as the camera pans away to reveal a vast expanse of green.
The phrase sounds better in Spanish, the way I heard it first: “Amor con hambre no dura.” “Hungry love doesn’t last.”
This week’s edition of the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column finds our crew soul-searching, desperate for meaning in our lives.
On Thursday, the film and literature worlds were rocked by an out-of-the-blue announcement — the Harry Potter universe will come back to film with an adaptation of author J.K. Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
Imagine a program that promised the opportunity to change your life: the opportunity to work side by side with some of Gainesville’s most successful business leaders in creating a mock company. Imagine — after applying to more places than you can count, going on interview after interview and struggling to find a job much less a living wage — that someone offered you the chance to change your career path. Then, imagine the bad news: that for no logical or rational reason, 25 percent of you would be randomly and summarily rejected.
Like most Americans, I am able to vividly recall the events that took place 12 years ago. It was my last year of high school, and a friend and I decided to leave study hall to hang out in the library.
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