Drew WilsonOctober 4, 2023
5min0
Former Gainesville City Commissioner Craig Carter and dermatologist Tara Ezell round out the controversial board.
Tag: Gainesville Regional Utilities
Drew WilsonOctober 4, 2023
Anne GeggisJune 28, 2023
6min0
Opponents predict the new, Governor-controlled board will vote to sell the public utility to an investor-owned power company.
Drew WilsonOctober 8, 2018
8min386
The race for SD 8 has already taken to the airwaves, but both candidates for the Alachua County-based seat have been sending out mailer after mailer pitching themselves as the best candidate for the job. As he’s done throughout the election cycle, Gainesville Republican Sen. Keith Perry put out another mailer this week tying his […]
Drew WilsonSeptember 18, 2018
8min499
Gainesville voters will decide in November whether to change the governance of their municipal utility and Sen. Keith Perry, a Gainesville Republican, has been using advertising – some say deceptively – in a push to get the measure passed. The utility, Gainesville Regional Utilities, is currently under the control of the Gainesville City Commission, but the referendum […]
Scott PowersApril 6, 2017
4min312
A bill aimed at preventing tragedies like when two 14-year-old boys disappeared in a fishing boat off the coast of Jupiter in 2015 won approval from the House Government Oversight Committee Thursday. House Bill 711, embraced by Blu Stephanos, the father of of one of the boys in that ill-fated boat, Austin Stephanos, would give Florida boat […]
Phil AmmannSeptember 3, 2016
1min321
Duke Energy will continue to supply electricity for the University of Florida. The University of Florida board of trustees voted Thursday to keep Duke Energy as the provider of both electricity and steam to UF’s main campus in Gainesville. The new agreement should be ratified and signed by the end of the year. Since 1992, […]