Speed notes that people tend to focus on people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, but she wants to showcase people in Gainesville and Alachua County who also accomplished greatness.
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Alachua County has enough funds through the federal Head Start program to provide early childhood education services for 561 children and families. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program is only at 58% capacity.
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Tao Li, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was placed on leave Feb. 15, according to a letter in his personnel file obtained under Florida’s public records law.
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The next Florida Board of Governors Meeting will be held on March 23.
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WUFT News fact checked some of the statements the city included in the address.
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Assisted by several key city leaders and partners, the mayor sought to list what he said were the city’s accomplishments in 2020 and to introduce its new goals for this year.
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After successfully advocating for the relocation of a Confederate statue and changing the name of a local school, Gainesville activists are now eyeing further changes.
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The city of Gainesville launched graffiti reduction programs a decade ago that appear to have succeeded, along a rise in legal street art.
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President Biden's pick for attorney general, Merrick Garland, plans to tell senators at his confirmation hearing Monday that leading the Justice Department would be the "culmination" of his career.
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If passed, a bill creating Florida's first statewide book distribution program would allow school districts to provide books to K-5 students reading below grade level.
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