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Timed to the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, it explores the state's ongoing struggle for clean water.
Read More »The Point, June 13, 2022: State acknowledges the Rodman Dam is at risk of breaching, a report shows
Our new special series, "High Hazard," begins today with this story.
Read More »The Point, May 18, 2022: Here’s what Florida lawmakers may try to accomplish during the special session on property insurance next week
Gov. Ron DeSantis previewed what could emerge from the session.
Read More »The Point, May 3, 2022: For a city its size, Gainesville has a large number of minority-owned businesses
A recent study ranked it second in Florida for that criteria.
Read More »Newberry residents respond to a collection center coming to the city
The county has five rural collection centers: Alachua/High Springs Collection Center on Northwest U.S. Highway 441, Archer Collection Center on Southwest Archer Road, Fairbanks Collection Center on Northeast Waldo Road, North Central Collection Center on Northeast State Road 121 and Phifer Collection Center on Southeast Hawthorne Road.
Read More »The Point, April 25, 2022: Inside the fight between tiny home owners and some local Florida governments
There's no uniform statewide standard for governing how the homes are built and maintained.
Read More »The removal of ‘Maus’ from a Tennessee school district is catching Floridians’ attention
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Spiegelman’s relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, by depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. The McMinn County School Board reportedly objected to eight curse words and nude imagery of a woman, used in the depiction of the author’s mother's suicide, according to NPR.
Read More »The Point, April 15, 2021: Looking Back At Black Thursday And UF’s Racial Equity, 50 Years Later
It was an instrumental event in furthering Black presence at the university.
Read More »Florida Manatee Deaths Surpass 500, Heading Toward Another Record High in 2021
Every winter thousands of manatees migrate through Florida’s waterways for warm water and food. This year the seagrass beds have been insufficient in supply, causing at least 540 manatees to die.
Read More »You Can’t Recycle That: What Actually Should Go In Gainesville’s Blue And Orange Bins
Items that can be recycled are cans, cartons, plastic bottles and tubs, but all must have their lids removed and thrown away.
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