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The state had its first two deaths from the virus this weekend.
Read More »The Point, March 5, 2020: New Gainesville Organizing Effort Aims To Help Ex-Inmates
Community Spring is the grassroots group's name.
Read More »The Point, March 4, 2020: A Third Coronavirus Case Is Confirmed In Florida
The governor says a relative of the other Hillsborough County patient tested positive for COVID-19.
Read More »The Point, March 3, 2020: Florida’s Confirmed Coronavirus Cases, How To Help Stop Its Spread, And About Those Bats
UF students in Italy also had to return to the U.S. and be quarantined.
Read More »The Point, March 2, 2020: Governor Declares Public Health Emergency In Florida Over Coronavirus Cases
Ron DeSantis said two people in the state tested "presumptively positive" for COVID-19.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 28, 2020: Alachua County Public Schools Work To Improve Chronic Absenteeism Rate
The chronically absent rate in the same school year in Alachua County was 11.6%, a third of a percentage point higher than the state average.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 27, 2020: Why The Gainesville Driverless Shuttle Service Is Suspended For Now
The small black and blue bus won’t be leaving its parking spot anytime soon.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 26, 2020: Gainesville Airbnb Hosts Are Starting To Pay County Taxes — Just Like Bed And Breakfast And Hotel Owners
It remains to be decided which school Robert Cecil, an English teacher from Buchholz High School, will be transferred to as part of his punishment for using a racial slur in his classroom.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 25, 2020: Florida Democrats Worry About Possible Sanders Nomination After Castro Comments
Comments made by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders praising Fidel Castro in a "60 Minutes" segment drew harsh backlash from Cuban-Americans in Florida.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 24, 2020: Florida Legislature Works To Ban Shark Fin Sales
One of the bills' sponsors said Florida should have no part in the fin industry.
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