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Guest AuthorJanuary 12, 2016

On a cold and bitter night, we stood across the street from Florida State Prison. Waiting. When Julie Solomon Bame suggested months earlier that we drive to Starke for the execution of the man who murdered our friend and high school classmate, Stephanie Anne Collins in 1986, a few of us agreed to go to […]

Associated PressSeptember 5, 2015

High schools in the Gainesville area are dealing with an unexpected influx of new students. The Gainesville Sun reports that the Alachua County School District has about 800 more high school students than it had expected for the 2015-2016 school year. District officials say they planned for increased enrollment at the district’s seven high schools […]

Diane RobertsAugust 18, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – They stamp their feet, they scream till they’re sick, and hold their breath till they’re blue. They act like 5-year-olds caught with their grotty little paws in the cookie jar, their faces covered in crumbs, as they swear they didn’t do anything wrong. The Special – or Remedial – Session. While all […]

Diane RobertsAugust 17, 2015

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – They stamp their feet, they scream till they’re sick, and hold their breath till they’re blue. They act like 5-year-olds caught with their grotty little paws in the cookie jar, their faces covered in crumbs, as they swear they didn’t do anything wrong. The Special – or Remedial – Session. While all […]

Guest AuthorAugust 12, 2015

What is technical disruption? Simply described I think of it as new innovations that constantly drive our society and economy in new and different directions; allowing us or in some instances forcing us to do things in a new way. In the early 1900s my family’s business was rocked by the invention of the tractor. […]

Ryan RayAugust 11, 2015

The two-lobbyist governmental relations firm William J. Peebles PA, operated by the firm’s namesake along with John Wayne Smith, reported earning more than $300,000 during the second quarter of 2015, according to recently submitted compensation reports. The boutique shop’s list of clients heavily tilted toward local government clients: nearly all of the Peeble’s 22 legislative and 21 executive […]

Guest AuthorAugust 11, 2015

What is technical disruption? Simply described I think of it as new innovations that constantly drive our society and economy in new and different directions; allowing us or in some instances forcing us to do things in a new way. In the early 1900s my family’s business was rocked by the invention of the tractor. […]

Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2015

I’m a Southern, white, gun-owning male who worries one day my family will have to pay the price for America’s unwillingness to stand up to the gun lobby. I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but hear me out. I grew up bouncing BBs off the backs of the alligators in Lake Newnan outside of Gainesville, Fla. […]

Michael SainatoJuly 14, 2015

According to a recent study conducted by the financial news site 24/7 Wall St., Gainesville is fourth in the nation of cities with the most income inequality. To identify the cities with the widest gap between the rich and the poor, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed Gini coefficients for each of the 381 metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) from […]

Bruce RitchieMarch 19, 2015

Tallahassee failed to make a ranking of the top 50 college towns but Panama City did? And St. Augustine ranks No. 1? Bogus. A web site called Collegeranker.com posted the ranking this week. I’m immediately attracted to any ranking of college towns. After working as a news reporter in non-college town Montgomery, Ala., for four […]

Tag: Gainesville

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Waiting for a murderer to die

Gainesville-area high schools see enrollment boom

Diane Roberts: Democracy in Florida remains lost in spite of new maps

Diane Roberts: Democracy in Florida remains lost in spite of new maps

Blake Dowling: Roll with technical disruption or risk being run over

Local government specialists at William Peebles’ firm rake in $310K in Q2 lobby fees

Blake Dowling: Roll with technical disruption or risk being run over

Eric Conrad: We’re just haggling over price

Michael Sainato: Gainesville ranks 4th nationally for most income inequality

St. Augustine and Panama City — the nation’s top college towns?