While visiting Gainesville, former Florida governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham voiced his opinion on current issues such as the government shutdown, conflicts in Syria and Silver Springs State Park.

Traffic on 13th street northbound at Archer was closed temporarily Sunday evening after an 18-wheeler trailer touched the 13th street pedestrian bridge and fell on its side.

Why do we set our clocks forward every spring? Here are five points about the practice.

A burst of hiring last month added 236,000 U.S. jobs and reduced the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January. The robust gains suggested that the economy can strengthen further despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.

The FAMU legacy torch is coming to Gainesville on its tour of the country.

Governor Rick Scott has created a task force to accelerate the reform of the state university system. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s  Cameron Taylor spoke with Florida Chamber Foundation President Dale Brill about being appointed as the chairman of the Blue Ribbon task force and what he sees as his role in helping reform higher education. …

A new state law requiring counties to pay millions in unpaid medicaid bills is being challenged. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Chris Peralta reports the counties are seeking a temporary injunction against the law to keep it from being enforced. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/MedicaidWrapCP4272012.mp3]

New numbers show economic growth in the United States slowed in the first quarter of this year, going from 3% to 2.2%. Locally, though, the economy is faring better. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Chris Peralta spoke with Vice President of Economic Development at the Council for Economic Outreach, David Ramsey, about how …

Budget turkeys are items that are in the proposed state budget which it finds to have circumvented typical approval procedures or benefit a limited area.  Chris Peralta spoke with Vice President of Tax Research at Florida Tax Watch Kurt Wenner about what makes certain projects “turkeys” and about a few projects …

This evening, the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications will be honoring four alumni who have been named alumni of distinction. One of the alumni is CNN Deputy Director of Programming John Antonio. He sat down with Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Chris Peralta this afternoon, discussing how news coverage …