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Danny McAuliffeOctober 31, 2017

For the third consecutive month, Florida’s consumer sentiment is down, according to the monthly study from the University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research. October saw a drop of 1.5 points to a composite score of 94.3, continuing a downward trend that began in August. Among the five components of the index, one increased and […]

Joe HendersonOctober 24, 2017

University of Florida football coach Jim McElwain has mishandled a potentially explosive situation, and that’s true whether or not death threats were actually directed at him and those in his program. Something isn’t adding up here. At his regular news conference Monday, McElwain dropped a bombshell about that subject in an almost offhand way. After […]

Associated PressOctober 20, 2017

The hostile audience drowned out white nationalist Richard Spencer with anti-Nazi chants. They booed him off the stage under the watchful eye of police officers in riot gear. In other words, Spencer sees his speech Thursday at the University of Florida as a smashing success. “I’m very happy with what happened in the sense of […]

Jim RosicaOctober 19, 2017

Democratic state Sen. Gary Farmer of Fort Lauderdale says white nationalist Richard Spencer is a “closed-minded coward” in a statement released Thursday. Spencer is set to speak at the University of Florida in Gainesville this afternoon. Farmer’s remarks were sent by the Florida Senate Democratic Office. “Every human being, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or […]

Scott PowersOctober 19, 2017

Saying he believes that “If we ignore it we allow it to grow,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King said Thursday that protests of white supremacist Richard Spencer‘s speech in Gainesville are important. King, a Winter Park developer of affordable and senior housing, said he is attending a protest rally at the University of Florida Thursday […]

Jim RosicaOctober 19, 2017

The Florida Legislative Jewish Caucus on Thursday called white nationalist Richard Spencer, set to speak at the University of Florida later today, a “a vile, racist, carnival barker.” Spencer’s “traveling circus of ignorance-fueled hatred is inhabited by insecure clowns unable to come to terms with a changing world,” according to a statement. “His ideology is that […]

Associated PressOctober 19, 2017

In an era when it’s increasingly difficult to get fans in the stadium, it apparently isn’t so hard to get them into new rituals. Average attendance at the Football Bowl Subdivision level has dipped nearly 6 ½ percent over the last six years — from 46,632 in 2010 to 43,612 last season — and lagging student interest during the […]

Associated PressOctober 18, 2017

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A day before white nationalist Richard Spencer is scheduled to speak at the University of Florida, its president affirmed his belief in free speech but said the security costs of holding such an event at a public university put an unfair burden on taxpayers. UF President W. Kent Fuchs said Wednesday in an interview with […]

Joe HendersonOctober 17, 2017

Richard Spencer is clean cut, casual but professional, a disarming look for one of the most prominent faces in what is becoming a crowded field of racism in the United States. His scheduled appearance Thursday afternoon the University of Florida prompted Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency, in case things get out […]

Associated PressOctober 16, 2017

Citing past clashes and protests, Gov. Rick Scott on Monday declared a state of emergency in advance of a speech white nationalist Richard Spencer is scheduled to give at the University of Florida. The state’s Republican governor warned in an executive order Monday that a “threat of a potential emergency is imminent” in Alachua County, […]

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Consumer sentiment continues downward trend in October

Joe Henderson: Death threats at UF? Either way, coach mishandled situation

Richard Spencer undeterred by boos on latest college stop

Gary Farmer calls Richard Spencer a ‘lowlife … filthy’

Chris King on Richard Spencer: ‘We’re better than this’

‘Wicked hatred’: Jewish lawmakers condemn Richard Spencer

Social media helping college teams start new traditions

Kent Fuchs: Security cost for Richard Spencer speech ‘unfair’

Joe Henderson: Richard Spencer at UF is emergency all right

State of emergency declared for white nationalist speech