Alachua County Tourism Director Jessica Hurov said the county tax collector’s office estimates that 95 percent of Airbnb-style rental spaces don’t remit the required monthly 5 percent bed tax.
Read More »2018 Transgender Day of Remembrance Held In Gainesville
Holding tealight candles set in palm-sized glass jars, about 100 people gazed silently upon the stage as 300 names resounded Tuesday night at Bo Diddley Plaza in Gainesville.
Read More »‘We Won’t Be Erased’: Gainesville Marks 2018 Transgender Day Of Remembrance
Every year on Nov. 20, transgender advocates and LGBTQ organizations across the country and world host vigils.
Read More »What Happens After An Insulin Cost Spike? ‘People Suffer And They Die’
For three years, University of Florida Health Shands physician Frederick Southwick noticed an increase in patients experiencing diabetic ketoacidosis, a diabetes complication known as DKA and which can lead to a coma or even death.
Read More »Congratulations, Gainesville: You Survived The Hottest September In 93 Years
Gainesville simmered through an average daily temperature of 83.5 degrees, breaking the 1925 record of 82.2 degrees for the warmest September, the National Weather Service reported.
Read More »‘It Spirals Out Of Control’: The List Of Reasons Behind Gainesville’s Continuing Racial Disparity
Black residents represent 70.8 percent of the county’s inmates despite comprising about 20 percent of the general population, a study found.
Read More »Gainesville Activists Support National Prison Strike
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, an anonymous incarcerated group of prisoner rights advocates, called for the strike in response to a riot at a prison in South Carolina in which seven inmates died.
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