WUFT News News and Public Media for North Central Florida from the University of Florida in Gainesville
In his annual “state of the university” address on Wednesday, Florida State University President John Thrasher reiterated his strong opposition to allowing guns on university and college campuses. As a member of the Florida Senate, Thrasher helped kill a bill in 2011 that would have allowed gun owners with concealed-weapons …
Read More »Environmentalists Push Again For Removal Of Rodman Dam
Florida Defenders of the Environment are picking up a decades-old fight tear down the Rodman Dam to help restore the Ocklawaha River. Local anglers and businesses who rely on the premier bass fishing hole are worried about the outcome.
Read More »Florida Voter Turnout Climbs From 2012, Analysis Shows
About 74 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2016 general election, according to a WUFT News analysis of the election results from each of Florida’s 67 county supervisors of elections. In 2012, it was 72 percent, according to the Florida Department of State.
Read More »Obama To Give Final Counterterrorism Speech At Florida Base
President Barack Obama will travel to Florida next week to give his final speech about U.S. counterterrorism strategy.
Read More »Some Floridians Fear Obamacare Repeal Under Trump
The Obama plan has expanded coverage to about 20 million more Americans, and no state has more at stake than Florida, where more residents signed up than anywhere else.
Read More »Donald Trump Won Florida In 2016, And Eventually The Presidency
The Sunshine State victory later helped to propel him into the White House.
Read More »GOP Stems Democratic Push In State Senate
Republicans keep control of Florida State Senate
Read More »7 Scenarios For How Election Night Might Play Out
Hillary Clinton has the edge. She has to win just the states leaning in her direction to get enough electoral votes to be president. But Donald Trump has a path, albeit a narrow one.
Read More »Florida To Decide Rubio’s Fate, Influence Presidential Race
Florida voters were deciding Tuesday whether Republican Sen. Marco Rubio deserves a second term in an election that also will send at least eight new members to Congress, play a critical role in the presidential race and decide whether to broaden access to medical marijuana.
Read More »Experts Point To Rubio Keeping Senate Seat
After Marco Rubio's presidential bid crashed and as they saw his seat slipping into Democratic hands, Republican leaders in Washington talked Rubio into going back on a repeated pledge not to seek re-election to the U.S. Senate.
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