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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: University of Florida inaugurates former U.S. senator Ben Sasse as 13th president. “Sasse said he was focused on the future of higher education – and the role in it for …
Read More »State Housing Initiatives Partnership receives more than $1.6 million to assist with housing upkeep and repairs
Florida Housing is injecting $1.6 million into Gainesville’s State Housing Initiatives Partnership for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The State Housing Initiatives Partnership, also known as SHIP, is a program administered by Florida Housing that is intended to help homeowners struggling with housing expenses. The program has several ways for the …
Read More »Florida attorney general urges Supreme Court Justices to reject abortion measure
Attorney General Ashley Moody late Tuesday urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to ensure abortion rights, describing the measure as an effort to “hoodwink” voters. Moody filed a 39-page brief contending that the proposal should be kept off the 2024 ballot because the …
Read More »The Point, Nov. 1, 2023: What happens to books after the Friends of the Library book sale?
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: A difficult path: How volunteers, waste workers save old books from going to the landfill. “It’s been almost a week since Alachua County’s Friends of the Library fall book sale …
Read More »Area agencies host Trunk-or-Treat event for community children
Family Promise of Gainesville hosted Trunk or Treat on Tuesday for families and children who are experiencing homelessness. Several agencies, organizations and individuals participated in the event held in Family Promise’s parking lot where they offered candy, treats and information on various agencies serving the community. Volunteers with Gators for …
Read More »Angel’s Story: One family’s journey from Venezuela to Miami
No car is in the house’s driveway, only gravel dampened by rain. The living room is minimalistic, with a white leather couch backed against the wall and an old-fashioned clock hanging above it. The busted door does not close. The vehicles outside zoom over the wet asphalt, and it sounds …
Read More »Community ID program pushes back against monetary setbacks: ‘We are not closing our doors’
Jamileth Sequeida, 31, said she wishes it were easier to be in the U.S. “In here, it is just too hard,” she said. “I just want to go.” Along with her husband, Sequeida embarked on a 21-day journey across the U.S. border from Nicaragua nine months ago. They traveled light, …
Read More »Man accused of hitting pregnant former girlfriend as she gives birth
A young mother giving birth at a University of Florida hospital said in a new interview Tuesday she regrets that the baby’s father — in jail on felony charges that he hit her in the chest in the delivery room and threatened a mass shooting at the hospital — missed …
Read More »The Point, Oct. 31, 2023: Long COVID support group brings hope
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: North Central Florida support group brings hope to people with long COVID. “Severe fatigue, shortness of breath, brain fog, depression and anxiety are some of more than 200 symptoms in …
Read More »North Central Florida support group brings hope to people with long COVID
Kimberly Moore, 55, of Interlachen, is in her second year with long COVID. After getting infected for the first time, her life hasn’t been the same. “Before COVID, I was chopping down trees, building a deck, working 10 hours a day, coming home and dealing with all my animals,” Moore …
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