Opinion
Last decade produced culture of fear
Jan. 5, 2010Last decade was not a fun decade in which to grow up.
Opinion
Opinion
Claim that doctors are problem is false
By David E. Winchester | Jan. 5, 2010This is in response to Kenneth Maness’ letter in Tuesday’s Alligator asserting that “doctors are the real problem with health care in America.” His broadside contributes nothing to the serious debate about American health care reform. Further, he demonstrates the epitome of ignorance about a health care system that involves countless parties: doctors, patients, insurance carriers, malpractice attorneys and dozens of state and federal government agencies, each of whom contribute to how health care is provided and consumed in America and each of whom impact the cost of that care.
Opinion
Congress should reinstate estate tax
By BRIAN MILLER | Jan. 5, 2010On New Year’s Day, the estate tax, an essential part of the U.S. tax system for almost 100 years, disappeared because Congress failed to act in December.
Sports
Meyer needs trip to Bourbon St.
Jan. 4, 2010As expected, the Urban Meyer situation dominated the talk leading up to Florida’s Sugar Bowl matchup against Cincinnati.
Sports
National Signing Day gives college football fans offseason excitement
By CALLOVI< | Jan. 4, 2010The football season might have ended for the Gators, but my favorite time of the year is quickly approaching.
Opinion
Lower costs of health care
By Kenneth Maness | Jan. 4, 2010The real problem with health care in America: American doctors are exhibiting astronomical, unjustified, uncontrollable greed.
Opinion
Help wanted: Desperately seeking... you
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Jan. 4, 2010It’s that time again.
Opinion
Blacklisted U.S. right to focus security efforts
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 4, 2010Residents of troubled nations like Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq face daily struggles that can sometimes mean life or limb. So it would stand to reason that an extra pat down at the airport would seem inconsequential, even trivial, to someone with such an intimate knowledge of what real hassles are.
Sports
No way Gators could have beat PSU
Dec. 12, 2009There would be no “Hoosiers” reprise, no Miracle on Hardwood.
Sports
Loss to Orange includes encouraging signs
Dec. 10, 2009TAMPA – Different year, another close loss to Syracuse – but this one might be a precursor to something better.
Sports
Meyer faces challenge in making bowl seem sweet
By CALLOVI< | Dec. 8, 2009My biggest knock on Pete Carroll over the years has been his inability to get his team mentally prepared for playing lower-quality teams throughout an entire season.
Sports
End of NCAA football season not end of the world with basketball underway
Dec. 8, 2009Florida still has a Sugar Bowl to play, but the mood around Gainesville is college football season is pretty much over.
Opinion
UF experiences help to prepare for future
Dec. 8, 2009Sunday morning, I woke up and started crying.
Opinion
Point of Christianity is love, not judgment
By Hannah Banfield | Dec. 8, 2009I have been very upset lately by the people supposedly “evangelizing” on Turlington Plaza. As I listen to them screaming judgments and insults, it breaks my heart. I have been a Christian for a few years now and while I still have many questions, one thing I do know is that the basis of Christianity is love. “For God so loved the world...” (John 3:16). “And do everything in love...” (1 Corinthians 16:14). These people are in no way showing God’s love but are giving Christians a reputation of being hateful and self-righteous. I am here to say that what they are portraying is not Christianity! Whoever they claim to be witnesses of is not Jesus because their teachings are not rooted in love.
Opinion
Supporting Gators is job of fans
By Ian Fisher | Dec. 8, 2009It is not the Alligator’s job to support the Gators. That duty is supposed to fall upon the fans. It seems to me that Randall Lockhart, who wrote yesterday about the sports section not supporting the Gators, doesn’t understand the Alligator’s role in covering UF athletics. Many students are with him in expecting the paper’s staff to be a cheerleader for UF sports.
Opinion
Gators football season not over yet
By PATRICK ANNESTY | Dec. 8, 2009Yes, Saturday’s loss in the Southeastern Conference Championship game was heartbreaking. And yes, Florida’s dreams of an undefeated season were once again quashed. But we must remember that the season is not over yet. The Gators still must represent the SEC in a New Year’s Day primetime bowl game against the undefeated Big East champion Cincinnati Bearcats. After the University of Alabama suffered its first loss last year to the Gators in the conference title game, the Crimson Tide gave up on the season and got thrashed by a determined Utah team out of the Mountain West Conference. We must not allow ourselves to suffer the same fate.
Opinion
Football loss can bring fans together
By Austin Shaw | Dec. 8, 2009First and foremost, I am a huge supporter of all Gators athletics, and nothing disheartened me more than to see the team I root for every Saturday of the fall semester come up short in a high-stakes SEC Championship game. There were no promises to be delivered at the postgame press conference and there are zero weeks left for us to exonerate our loss. There will not be a new plaque to add to the South Endzone of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium reading “SEC Champs 2009,” Tim Tebow will not be the quarterback that wins three national championships and no one here in Gainesville will be heading to Pasadena, Calif., in January, unless they are visiting family.
Opinion
Alligator distorts meaning of Rebel flag
By Ian R. Moore | Dec. 8, 2009The editorial “Road Rebel: Confederate plate no debate for state” struck me as a skewed and misinformed perception of what the Confederate flag or those who wish to fly it believe in. The fact that someone is willing to say “those who would buy it already have jacked-up pickups with mud tires…” shows that the only reason the confederate flag being flown is frowned upon is because of a large generalization to which the answer can be found in a middle school history class. The civil war was not fought on the grounds of “racism, bigotry and backward thought.”
Sports
Surprising loss needed to gain perspective
Dec. 7, 2009The Gators didn’t lose to Alabama on Saturday, they got beaten.
