The Independent Florida Alligator received the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media from the Freedom Forum. The award celebrates outstanding journalism and the service the paper provides by upholding the First Amendment and keeping our community informed.
Many Republican and far-right loyalists believe NPR and PBS are biased and influence the public. Making these statements as the President of the United States of America is propaganda in itself.
Downtown Gainesville is home to a museum for the Mexican palate: Burrito Factory & Cantina. With two-for-one draft and margaritas, free salsa and chips and a plethora of handhelds and fork-and-knife plates, visitors are left with a rumble in their stomachs and salivating mouths.
The Florida Room nails the three core ingredients of a restaurant: service, environment and food, and also offers a fourth secret ingredient: originality.
The farmlands that nourish Floridians are now becoming compromised due to a dangerous contaminant known as PFAS.
What is the true reason we as humans are so inclined to idealize our childhood?
Whether it be locked behind screens, buried in work or scrolling endlessly on social media, we’ve lost something completely vital: the places where we truly connect.
All I have left to say to The Alligator is thank you, I love you.
Our time together has been short, but it has been an experience I will cherish for a lifetime.
Looking back at all I’ve accomplished in my four years at UF, I feel like 18-year-old Jack would be proud
I have dedicated five semesters to the Alligator, yet I don’t know how to put into words what it meant to me.
I didn’t plan on saying goodbye to The Alligator. Not because I planned on working in our office of dust bunnies and back-breaking chairs forever, but because I didn’t think I earned it.
A scorching July in 2022 led me to Gainesville and, to an overdue epiphany, The Alligator.
My time at UF wasn’t defined by football games, classes or partying at Midtown. It was defined by my time at The Alligator.
After UF student Felipe Zapata Velásquez was detained by ICE, tensions are high among UF students.
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