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Staff ReportsJanuary 30, 2018

Consumer sentiment among Floridians starts the year with the highest level in 16 years, increasing 2.3 points in January to 99.8 from the revised December figure of 97.5. These confidence levels have not been observed since March 2002, when consumer sentiment reached 102 points. Among the five components that make up the index, one decreased […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 26, 2018

Welcome to the United States of America, otherwise known as the world’s largest free speech zone. Unfortunately, too many college administrators don’t see it that way. On campuses across Florida and the rest of the nation, people in charge of higher education have established euphemistically named “free speech zones” that limit the places where students […]

Drew WilsonJanuary 10, 2018

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine gave his stump speech and fielded questions from a small group of college students Tuesday a few blocks away from University of Florida campus in Gainesville. “You all must be really bored or really into politics to be here,” Levine said as he walked into Lubavitch Chabad Jewish Center, where […]

Lloyd DunkelbergerDecember 15, 2017

The presidents of the University of Florida and Florida State University said a last-minute decision by congressional leaders to scuttle a proposal to tax tuition waivers for graduate students would be a major victory for higher education. A U.S. House tax-overhaul plan would have made graduate students pay federal income taxes on tuition charges that […]

Staff ReportsNovember 28, 2017

After three months of consecutive declines, consumer sentiment among Floridians rose to 96.7 in November, up 1.9 points from October’s revised figure of 94.8, according to the latest University of Florida consumer survey. Consumer sentiment in Florida started 2017 with a record-breaking figure and reached its highest level in 15 years during the first half […]

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 […]

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Florida consumer sentiment soars entering 2018

Demetrius Minor: The only free speech zone in Florida ought to be Florida

Philip Levine talks climate change, minimum wage with UF students

University leaders back dropping grad student tax

Rosy outlook pushes Florida consumer sentiment up in Nov.

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’