Tag Archives: Mayor Lauren Poe

Commissioner Adrian Hayes-Santos has throughout 2018 driven the effort for “zero waste” Gainesville.

Over a hundred concerned residents packed the City Commission Auditorium in a meeting that lasted from 6 p.m. to midnight Thursday evening. Attendance was so high that many needed to watch the meeting from an overflow room downstairs.

Holding tealight candles set in palm-sized glass jars, about 100 people gazed silently upon the stage as 300 names resounded Tuesday night at Bo Diddley Plaza in Gainesville.

Gainesville wants its city commission to keep watching the city’s utilities.

The GRU Authority referendum on the November ballot will allow Gainesville residents to vote on whether GRU’s governing authority should be transferred to an independent board appointed by the city commission.

City commissioners Gail Johnson and Gigi Simmons had skeptical questions about the half-cent sales tax on Thursday.

Linda Awbrey was Andrew Gillum's adviser when he was a student at Gainesville High School in the late 1990s. She predicted in 1997 that Gillum would eventually be elected governor.

Black residents represent 70.8 percent of the county’s inmates despite comprising about 20 percent of the general population, a study found.

It was standing room only at the Half-Cent for Alachua Schools campaign kickoff at the Heartwood Soundstage Thursday night.

The turnout at Gainesville City Hall supporting the Fraternal Order of Police required live feeds of the City Commission meeting be shown on TVs in the lobby and throughout the basement. From Police Chief Tony Jones to longtime residents to people who encounter police officers as part of their work, …