Gainesville residents pleased with food–stamp hot line
By AMANDA HINES | Mar. 3, 2009Gainesville residents are giving positive feedback on a customer service call center hot line in which people can learn about applying for food stamps.
Gainesville residents are giving positive feedback on a customer service call center hot line in which people can learn about applying for food stamps.
Although they clearly have their differences, there is one thing all candidates for the Gainesville city commission can agree on: spending must be cut.
The 28 photos displayed on the wall of the Reitz Union show the faces and lives of people who, according to some, often face adversity in society.
Two men lounging at the Patrol Division front desk said I was in for some good stories that night.
For someone who was projected to be the closer, Jeff Barfield turned in an impressive start.
Two was company Tuesday night at the first Community Emergency Response Team class at the Alachua County Emergency Operations Center.
As lawmakers started the spring legislative session Tuesday, they were joined by lobbyists from around the state, including about six of UF's own lobbyists.]
Tuesday night's back-to-back Student Senate meetings were filled with tearful goodbyes and words of encouragement, as old senators left and new senators sat through their first meeting.
When thinking of the Civil Rights Movement, Gainesville doesn't immediately come to mind.
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It took Kyle Myers only two minutes and 51 seconds to eat 30 wings at Gator's Dockside on Tuesday night.
Joshua Nederveld is a chauvinistic, pea-for-a-brain, wannabe meathead. As a woman who regularly uses the bench (with her measly 70 pounds), I am outraged by his delusional "unwritten laws" of the weight room.
It's hard to see it behind her meek smile.
Noisy, surging guitars; octopus-arm polyrhythms; Bono hollering on like a hopped-up Pentecostal preacher; spectacularly transparent declarations of purpose whooped in flailing whoa-oh frenzy. These are the first sounds of "No Line On the Horizon," U2's new album, and they combine to say what, with this band, goes without saying: This is a statement.
A white Hyundai Sonata cruises onto the turnpike blaring country music through scenic Pennsylvania.
The first Alachua County Government large-scale solar panel project was unveiled Tuesday.
UF coach Tim Walton announced at his weekly press conference Tuesday morning that senior center fielder Kim Waleszonia suffered a tibial plateau fracture in her left knee and will likely not be back on the field for the No. 2 Gators until the postseason.
Before Carrie Bradshaw, there was Barbara Millicent Roberts. She turns 50 years old this week, and she's never looked better.
Progress Energy, which sells electricity to UF, has requested a decrease in electric rates that could soften UF's budget cut by between $2 million and $3 million, according to Matt Fajack, UF's chief financial officer.