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Sunday, May 25, 2025

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Narcotics-unit funding poorly spent

Gainesville has recently been afflicted with dorm-room robberies, downtown homicides and unfortunate traffic-accident casualties. In times like these, I would expect our tax dollars to be used wisely to protect us from recurrences. Instead, what did our honorable law enforcement officials choose to do? They responded to mounting pressure by creating a multi-agency narcotics unit, which, according to Gainesville Police Chief Norman Botsford, is the most important unit.


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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Student should be praised for listening

Thanks for the story in Friday's Alligator about Michael Berry, who listens. I once worked for a Mental Health Association in a large city, where we regularly gave a mini-course for bartenders and hair stylists because we understood they frequently become an inviting stop for the transiently troubled. Mr. Berry has taken it to the next level, and, unlike "Lucy" of comic-strip fame, his encounter just is what it is. That's nice.


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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Not all presidential polls objective

In Friday's Alligator, Danny Beaulieu's letter complains of constant coverage of Ron Paul over other candidates, saying that Barack Obama leads Paul in a Facebook poll. Is the Facebook poll scientific? Could the poll have been influenced by the way candidates are campaigning?


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NEWS

Fever Pitch

Fall baseball practice is usually a time of change and transition, adjusting to incoming freshman and transfer players.


NEWS

Walkin' Around The Christmas Tree

(Marianne Lijewski / Alligator) Jerne Shapiro holds her son Jace, who is 4 months old, while he plays with an ornament at the annual Christmas-tree lighting at the Thomas Center on Saturday night. Shapiro and her husband, Matt, wanted to show their son the lights.



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