We 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.
As someone who is fascinated by the U.S. Supreme Court, I’ve been consuming every bit of information about President Obama’s recent nominee, Elena Kagan. Unfortunately, it seems as if the Alligator’s Editorial Board has not consumed even half of that information.
Just 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.
You have 15 seconds to translate UF doctorate student Andrew Charles Thoron’s thesis into plain English.
During the next month, the Obama administration plans to release a new health care bill of rights, and the buzzword within appears to be “force.” The bill details how government is either forcing people to have coverage or forcing companies to cover them. For a country of free markets, there appears to be a growing number of limitations and rules.
President 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.
In 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.
Students pay anywhere from $200 to $2,000 a month in rent, and what do we get in return? Apartments that are filthy and in disrepair. I had several issues during my tenancy at one particular community. For one, the management was unwilling to repair a broken window. I requested to have it fixed every week for four months, but it never happened. When I returned from winter break there were dead bugs everywhere in my bedroom. That was my breaking point. I learned a lot from that experience and would like to share that knowledge with my fellow students.
When Mike McCall told then-Sports Editor Bryan Jones that he should give me a job at the Alligator despite having no experience, he thought he was doing me a favor.
I’m sure all of you are over those sappy, sentimental goodbye columns. However, you’ll have to suffer through one more because I’m the editor and have control over the paper. Therefore, I can do what I want.
I don’t want to scare anyone, but there are crazies walking among us. Even worse, over the past year and a half, they have become more and more visible, showing up at rallies across the nation to protest the government, and just about anything in between that procreates.
Thank you, Editorial Board, for echoing the call for compassion on factory farms. For years, animal protection organizations have shown the inherent cruelty in cutting the beaks off egg-laying hens and confining them to spaces so small they can’t even spread a single wing. Battery cages will be illegal in the European Union starting in 2012, and the U.S. would do well to follow that example. However, sadly, this is not the only area where McDonald’s is falling behind the times on animal welfare standards.
Caroline Hitiman recently wrote a letter to the Editorial Board complaining about all the attention Tiger Woods receives from the media. Woods receives attention from media simply because he is the most interesting athlete in sports. Like Hitiman said, the media ratings from the Masters went up 36 percent from last year just because Woods was in the field. I understand other golfers were performing better, but when Woods heads into the final round at the Masters only four strokes behind the leader, it’s definitely something to watch. The most interesting thing to watch aside from Woods pulling crazy shots to win is to see Woods lose. Even when he is in last place, it is entertaining to see how he handles failure. Whether it is slamming clubs or holding up a trophy, Tiger deserves airtime.
Win big. Lose big.
It 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.
Since I graduate in about a week and a half, I think now is a good time to say goodbye. Some things you say goodbye to are things we’ll all need to say goodbye to. Farewell, increasing tuition. Some things you say goodbye to are special to my class. Farewell, Tim Tebow. And some things are more personal goodbyes. Farewell, Professor Shoaf. This is a mix of all of those.
Just as radical Muslims give the Islamic religion a bad reputation throughout the world, Westboro Baptist Church and other hate-spewing Christians do the same for Christianity in this town. I hope these people learn something soon. The Christian faith is based on the love of Jesus Christ — a love that is present to inspire those who are not believers and to change their lives for the better if needed. The hate-filled protests and direct condemnation of people will only serve to turn them away from the Christian religion. It is sad to see this small subset of Christians garner so much attention and give the religion such a bad reputation. The Christian population is filled with compassionate people who know the religion is meant to heal, not hurt.
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Bravo to the counter-protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church protesters. A confrontation such as this could have turned violent, but Gainesville residents showed these people how the city really feels about ignorance and intolerance. We laugh at it. By dancing, singing and making fun of the situation, residents let the Westboro Baptist Church members know that their claims are so idiotic that they do not deserve to be taken seriously. It is unfortunate that so much hate and discontent is spread in the name of God, but the beauty of our country is that they have the right to do so in the same way others have the right to choose their partner regardless of gender. It boggles my mind how these people claim God hates homosexuals. Isn’t the god whom the followers of Westboro Baptist Church speak of the creator of everything, all-knowing and ever-present? If so, their God created gay people willingly and knowingly. Fortunately, the members of our community are smart enough to recognize a circus act when they see one, and everybody enjoys a day at the circus.
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