Opinion
Power Struggle
By The Alligator Editorial Board | May 19, 2010The war between the states, or between one state and a growing list of cities, is starting to get heated.
Opinion: Editorials
Opinion
Tourism Trouble: Florida could feel spill’s impact for years
By Alligator Editorial Board | May 17, 2010If you have ever had a desire to see the Florida Keys the way Ernest Hemingway did, you might want to take that trip before they become little more than polluted islands in the oil stream that’s pouring out of the Gulf of Mexico.
Opinion
Super Overdone: Enough with the comic book heroes in pop culture
By Alligator Editorial Board | May 17, 2010When fall rolls around, one hit show will be noticeably absent from NBC’s prime-time lineup: “Heroes.”
Opinion
Fire assessment fee should go up in smoke
By Alligator Editorial Board | May 12, 2010We thought plans for a fire assessment fee died years ago, but the Alachua County Commission is pulling out the Jaws of Life to try and make its recent version of this terrible idea a reality.
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Tea Party is a few cards short of full deck
By Alligator Editorial Board | May 12, 2010Just when we thought the Tea Party movement could not get any more ridiculous, one company has started selling its own take on the Iraqi Most Wanted Playing Cards, except they feature politicians.
Opinion
Poor Judge-ment: Is Kagan the right woman for the job?
By Alligator Editorial Board | May 10, 2010President Obama announced Elena Kagan as his nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday morning, calling her a “trailblazer,” among other things.
Opinion
Closing 13th Street Walmart hurts area
By Alligator Editorial Board | May 10, 2010In spite of the many people who live and work on 13th Street, we could not be more ecstatic about the Gainesville City Commission’s vote to allow Walmart to abandon the old location and move forward with a supercenter on 34th Street and U.S. 441.
Opinion
Bad Apple
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 19, 2010It always seems like such a weird twist of fate when a product designed with a certain type of person in mind is rejected by its own target audience.
Opinion
Not Lovin’ it: McDonald’s should alter way it confines chickens
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 19, 2010Seventy-two square inches.
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Tearful apology: Pope’s apology is too little, too late
By Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 18, 2010Whoever said boys don’t cry obviously didn’t talk to old Benny.
Opinion
Roethlis-blunder
By Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 18, 2010In today’s world of sports, one frisky hand seems to wash the other.
Opinion
Darts and Laurels
By Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 15, 2010Well, this is it — the semester has come, and it’s almost gone.
Opinion
So Taxing: This is a gentle reminder to file your taxes
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 14, 2010We don’t like numbers at The Alligator. In fact, in one of our classes one of us was asked to multiply 300 and 10.
Opinion
No JoKING Matter
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 14, 2010Whether you love him or he just creeps you out, Burger King’s masked mascot, The King, is in the news again.
Opinion
Can you hear us now?
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 13, 2010When this time of year rolls around and finals are looming, we can at least smile for teacher evaluations.
Opinion
Foot in Mouth: Huckabee’s homophobia ignorant, offensive
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 13, 2010We heart Huckabees.
Opinion
Forgo the Vote: Students shouldn’t vote in today’s election
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 12, 2010Last month, we wrote an editorial trying to convince you all to vote in Gainesville’s city election for mayor and District 4 commissioner.
Opinion
Fame Monster
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 12, 2010Some people think we’d do anything to take a jibe at the Palin family, but we have to wonder why they make it so easy.
Opinion
Fore-give and Fore-get
By Alligator Editorial Board | Apr. 11, 2010Apparently adultery is more forgivable than it used to be.
