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Work it out: Minimum wage jobs aren’t the answer
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 6, 2011State Sen. Nancy Detert should avoid walking past an unemployment office anytime soon.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 3, 2011Our friends up north may be buried in feet of snow, but we’ve got avalanches of a different sort on our hands. February brings with it a cascade of papers, exams and projects designed to clog our rooms with a blizzard of notes and handouts. As we dig ourselves out, we bring you the we’re-shaking-because-of-our-caffeine-dependency-not-the-weather edition of...Darts & Laurels.
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Timing isn’t everything
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 2, 2011Some states and cities are considering allowing the sale of liquor on Sundays for the sake of higher tax revenue.
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New Paper; Future uncertain for News Corp iPad app
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 2, 2011We have a loyal readership, but our newspaper is one of few thriving in paper form. As sharing information online becomes more popular, journalists continue scratching their heads and wondering how their organizations can survive in a world with free instant information. Some have websites readers subscribe to for a fee, but the results have varied.
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Two to Tango: Both sides of abortion debate face trouble
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 1, 2011As if either side needed to garner any more controversy, Planned Parenthood is getting ready for battle with the anti-abortion group Live Action over sting operations in several clinics across the country.
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Anachronisms 101
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Feb. 1, 2011An Abraham Lincoln researcher attempted to literally rewrite history when he changed a date on a presidential pardon from April 14, 1864, to April 14, 1865.
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Rights Fight: Judge calls health care reform into question
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 31, 2011The recent health care reform may be due to tumble like a row of dominoes.
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Balancing Act: Obama caught between the ideal and the real
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 30, 2011Whether we admit it or not, stability drives most of our decisions. It’s why we prize houses, steady jobs and reliable transportation. We might say we tire of routine, but without it, civilization as we know it would not exist.
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Code Red: US phases out terror alert system
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 26, 2011Don’t get us wrong, we love orange. Supposedly, we bleed it.
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What’s Your Beef?
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 26, 2011Suppose you’re a hungry student speed-walking across campus, looking for something to shove down your gullet while you rush to your next class. If you’re low on dough, you might be stuck eating food from the intestinal house of horrors known as Taco Bell.
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State of Unity: Speech shows parties can reach compromise
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 25, 2011We anticipated most of the talking points and even the tone of the State of the Union address Tuesday night. Two things have caught us off guard, however.
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Up in Smoke
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 24, 2011Welcome back to Gainesville, coach.
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Hail to the Tweet: Social media connects public to White House
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 23, 2011We got a little preview of the State of the Union address this weekend, but for now we’re more intrigued that the White House is embracing technology in the lead-up to the speech Tuesday night.
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School on Crutches
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 23, 2011Maybe a little struggling does the mind good.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 20, 2011Four-day weeks just aren’t conducive to getting work done.
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Only Human: Abortion debate leaves dignity behind
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 19, 2011As the day draws closer to the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, a lot of words will be thrown around. Some, such as “crazy,” “insensitive” and “irrational,” will cast broad strokes on vast groups of people. Others, such as “religious fanatic,” “Nazi,” and “baby-killer” will raise both eyebrows and ugly sentiment.
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Pretentious Tensions
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 18, 2011Everyone has someone they’d love to bring down a notch. There’s always that guy in class who’s a little too smug in his answers, that coworker with her holier-than-thou attitude.
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Media Blackout: In this case, no news is good news
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 17, 2011Last week, the Alligator learned of an event being planned by the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville. We will not dignify the event by discussing it in this publication.
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Seize the Day
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 17, 2011His dream still rings true, but, oddly enough, the day we take to celebrate it appears to undermine Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision.
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Darts and Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 13, 2011During a week littered with stories of tragedy, we’ve had to admit the hassle of drop/add period doesn’t warrant all our usual complaining.
