Senator Book is the 2018 recipient of the L’Oreal Paris/Glamour Magazine “Heroes Among Us” Award, presented at the Glamour Magazine annual Women of the Year Summit and Awards Ceremony in New York City on Monday, November 12, 2018.
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I grew up in a large suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, where my family was one of three Jewish households in the area. We are Reform Jews. At most, we attended temple five times a year, only when we had to. We celebrated Christmas because we liked Santa and tinseled …
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For Earth Day's 50th anniversary, Alachua County will participate in the City Nature Challenge, a yearly global competition.
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Florida ranks third in most human trafficking cases, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, behind only California and Texas.
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The new plan will set a course for the city department's intended revitalizations in blighted areas.
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Alachua County raised the legal tobacco age from 18 to 21 last October, but full enforcement has been slow to get under way.
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The evening's headline speaker said the racial disparity in income and housing is proof that King’s dream hasn’t been fulfilled.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously approved a ballot measure that would require future constitutional amendments to be approved by voters twice --- instead of once --- to take effect.
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Calling it one of the largest youth-led “strikes” ever, The New York Times reported that over 100,000 people attended rallies in Berlin, Melbourne and London.
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Robert Cecil, 56, who teaches the subject to ninth and 10th graders at the school, is seen and heard debating with the students about when it’s OK to use the N-word.
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After four years of Food and Drug Administration nicotine addiction studies, 26 male squirrel monkeys became the first monkeys to ever be retired by the FDA and finally found their home at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary just north of Gainesville city limits.
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By Melissa Ross, Brendan Rivers & Bill Bortzfield Long before rising seas permanently swamp homes, millions of Americans living in coastal communities will likely face more frequent and disruptive high-tide flooding — and the effects will ripple through the local economy. As the flooding increases over time, coastal residents will be forced to make difficult and costly choices. And if home values decline, an eroding property tax base would jeopardize funding for local services and infrastructure, such as roads, schools, and
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By Brendan Rivers In the Tampa Bay area, Pinellas County is teaching real estate agents how to field questions about flooding — an increasingly common concern when homebuyers talk to Realtors. “They really are the boots on the ground for all of the floodplain managers everywhere,” said Lisa Foster, the county’s floodplain administrator. She developed the Real Estate Flood Disclosure training program, a first of its kind in Florida. Realtors are eager, she said, to take the classes on everything
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By Brendan Rivers Sea level rise and other effects of climate change are now adding to the list of challenges facing some of Florida’s smallest residents: rare birds. On the St. Marys River in Northeast Florida, just a stone’s throw from the Georgia border in Yulee, the nonprofit White Oak Conservation Foundation is breeding and researching wildlife. You were introduced to some of its residents if you watched the last season of Game of Thrones — though you wouldn’t have
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By Heather Schatz After last year’s Hurricane Michael decimated parts of the Florida Panhandle, North Florida’s building codes are getting renewed scrutiny. Increasingly, all Florida residents need homes that can stand up to the strongest storms, and they increasingly want those homes to come with environmentally sustainable features and building methods. Enter Palm Beach Gardens-based Green Dwellings. Karen Adams is the custom home builder’s CEO. Melissa Ross: What goes into Green Dwellings? Karen Adams: The homes are unique in that
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Newberry’s 2019 class of 154 had a 100% graduation rate – the first for one of the county’s seven public high schools and higher than the statewide rate of 87%.
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Healthy Learning Academy spent nearly $22,000 hiring their school’s guardian to comply with an update to Florida law. This, coupled with spending on other safety precautions such as industrial metal doors, a fence and gate, resulted in spending over half of their general fund balance in one year.
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Students in the ExploraVision Program, a national program requiring students to brainstorm innovations that may be able to fix issues within science, at Howard Bishop Middle School celebrated their finished projects with an awards ceremony Tuesday night.
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If you didn't see the State of the Union address, the highlights include tension between Democrats and Republicans on the eve of President Trump's impeachment vote. That and more in 90 seconds.
Read More »Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody asked for the justices' opinion.
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Paul Broadie pledged to tackle an equity gap, decreased enrollment and the devaluation of liberal arts degrees in his inaugural address as Santa Fe College’s new president Tuesday.
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Florida lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that would lift the statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse and establish a Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights.
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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, who asked for the opinion, said voters would be confused by the meaning and ramifications of the proposal.
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A newly revealed video from his confession to a detective shows the hands of Paul Graves Williams, 62, visibly scratched.
Read More »Yesterday was the first time the buses were available for the public to ride.
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Gainesville residents can now use the bus for free as it travels between the parking garage on Southwest 2nd Street and the Innovation Hub
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Earth Fare is going out of business. That and more in 90 seconds.
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The Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 31 to 20 as they faced off at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. That and more in 90 seconds.
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Brown's name continues to adorn the city of Gainesville's Regional Transit System bus transfer facility.
Read More »House and Senate proposals are moving along in each chamber, with the governor already signaling his willingness to create such a law.
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Nearly 50 vehicle-based homes were showcased to the public at the Know H.O.W. Expo this weekend outside The Oaks Mall in Gainesville.
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To these Vietnam War veterans, freedom sounds like the roar of a motorcycle engine.
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When Enio Ximenes arrived from California four years ago with his girlfriend Jacquelyn Cafasso, the …
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Florida would become the second state to prohibit the procedure after New York, which banned it last summer.
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The Senate is expected to vote on the measure next week. If the House approves it as expected in coming weeks – the governor already said he will sign it into law – Florida would become the 27th state to impose parental consent legislation for abortions.
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Difficult experiences as a Florida correctional officer are driving serious problems in the state’s prisons: Florida can’t hire enough guards, can’t keep employed the guards it hires, copes with frequent cases of guards accused of abusing inmates and struggles to accommodate the emotional trauma that guards sometimes say they suffer behind bars.
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The Brexit transition officially begins tonight in London. That and more in 90 seconds.
Read More »They could be available by the end of the year.
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Theirs was the first class at the prison to graduate from the State Contracted Electrical Program.
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Two families had to leave their residences after a sinkhole swallowed their homes. That and more in 90 seconds.
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Police are searching for a missing newborn in Pasco County. That and more in 90 seconds.
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Self-driving buses, now undergoing test runs, are expected to become available as a new form of public transportation in Gainesville by the end of the year.
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Alachua County voters will not get to decide in this year’s general election whether the county commission should have single-member district representation, after the Alachua County Charter Review Commission decided Wednesday to not support the idea.
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When Brian Kernohan complained to his doctor of merciless headaches two summers ago, he expected …
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Despite recent changes in marijuana laws nationwide, the Gainesville Police Department’s drug-sniffing K-9s aren’t going anywhere.
Read More »Here's how the homeless count works.
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Each person experiencing homelessness gets handed a drawstring bag with items that have been donated to the Continuum of Care (COC) with snacks, toothpaste, soaps, and socks.
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There's a $150 million difference between the two.
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A nine-year-old boy from Ocala is charged with attempted first degree murder after stabbing his five-year-old sister. That and more in 90 seconds.
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“When you see them flourish and you see that light come back into their eyes, that's what keeps you able to do this,” Finelli said. “If you don't see that, and you don't find great homes for them, this will just really kill you.”
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