Bringing food to East Gainesville
Sep. 17Latashia Brimm is community food project coordinator and Staci White is community food project logistics team support at Grace Grows.
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Thomas’s goodbye column, by Thomas
By Thomas Weber | Aug. 2Joining this paper was the best decision I’ve made, because through it, I found my passion. I also found the smartest, kindest, funniest and most caring group of friends and coworkers ever, and I’m even more grateful for that.
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Probably you should finish your degree
By Kaelyn Cassidy | Aug. 2I don’t like sitting through lectures, I think textbooks are a scam and homework that doesn’t clearly relate to turning me into a reporter frustrates me. But I loved working at The Alligator, and if it took earning a degree in the background to be here, that’s what I was gonna do.
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Is sex trafficking happening in Gainesville?
Aug. 2The indicators of trafficking and exploitation often go unseen, so when we as a community acknowledge the prevalence of sex trafficking locally, we create a safe place for survivors to be heard, believed, supported and, ultimately, for lives to be restored.
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Q&A with a Gainesville City Commissioner about the city’s potential lawsuit against Florida’s anti-protest bill
Aug. 2In an interview with commissioner Gail Johnson, who approved the motion to draft a complaint against HB — an anti-protest bill signed into law in Florida last month that sparked backlash from local governments and community leaders — I learned more about what this lawsuit could mean for Gainesville.
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Demolition of affordable graduate housing is another blow to UF’s graduate assistants
June 7UF plans to demolish 36% of on-campus Graduate Family Housing, as reported in the Gainesville Sun and The Alligator. This is one instance in a series of recent decisions that shows UF does not value graduate students as much as it values our labor.
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What does the Israeli-Palestine conflict mean to an Israeli?
June 1“Kill their moms, rape their daughters,” is what people heard from their windows in London on May 16.
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What does the Israeli-Palestine conflict mean to local Palestinians?
June 1On May 18, Palestine observed quiet streets. As business owners shuttered their shops and deserted their markets, citizens across Palestinian cities and villages mobilized in central squares and demonstrated their opposition to the brutal Israeli military occupation.
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Sexual violence needs to stop
May 17Discussions of sexual assault too often turn to victim-blaming (e.g., were they at a party? Were they drinking? What were they wearing?) This must be reframed so the actions and choices of sexual assault perpetrators are under the spotlight.
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Is Florida finally sinking?
May 10The Sunshine State: home to the Everglades, Kissimmee Prairie State Park, Lake Okeechobee, Florida Reef and now an environmental crisis. On April 4, Florida declared a state of emergency due to a toxic wastewater reservoir on the brink of collapse in Manatee County.
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The case for improving COVID-19 racial health disparities
Apr. 25One of the most startling—yet frequently ignored—dilemmas throughout the COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the US has been the dramatic disparities in vaccination allocation that disproportionately affected minority and low-income groups.
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Goodbye Column: Doing it scared
By Morgan Goldwich | Apr. 19A love letter to the Avenue.
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If you’re reading this, my time’s up
By Karina Elwood | Apr. 19Turns out it was this crazy, life-changing experience. It was where I launched my career and made my closest friends. It houses my first bylines and favorite college memories. It will always be where I first fell in love with journalism. I just wish I had a little more time.
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Goodbye Column (Alyssa’s version)
By Alyssa Feliciano | Apr. 19This column is really my first real goodbye. I still have time with my friends and professors, but as I write this, sitting on the dirty carpet of The Alligator office, I know it is the last time I ever do it. And it’s sad.
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A month later — has UF addressed its own Asian hate?
Apr. 18After the tragic and hate-motivated events of March 16, Asian American members of the Gator community hoped to find empathy and support from our school. That’s not what we saw.
