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Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Tuesday that law enforcement “reinforcements” will be on hand if anyone plans to participate in armed protests at the state Capitol.
Read More »DeSantis Vows To ‘Act Very Quickly’ If Disorderly Protests Erupt
UF Faculty, Student Organizations Protest Against Spring Reopening During Board of Trustees Meeting
With less than six weeks before the start of the spring 2021 semester — and first large-scale in-person classes since the March 2020 lockdown — the University of Florida held its first in-person Board of Trustees meeting on Friday.
Read More »UF Students Hold Protest Demanding Name Change For The Reitz Union
Julius Wayne Reitz, the building’s namesake, served as UF’s fifth president, from 1955 to 1967, a 12-year period when the student population grew from 9,000 to 20,000.
Read More »‘A Community That Can Get This Done’: Gainesville Holds Telephone Town Hall To Hear Opinions About Local Policing Reforms
Mayor Lauren Poe and Police Chief Tony Jones helped lead the discussion.
Read More »Gainesville Residents Protest Seven Springs Water Permit At Ginnie Springs And Santa Fe River
The Suwannee County Water Management District will vote on the renewal of the Seven Springs Water Company’s contract later this year.
Read More »Donald Trump Jr. And Kimberly Guilfoyle Speak At The University Of Florida
The night ended with the crowd chanting: “Four more years! Four more years!”
Read More »President Trump’s Medicare Executive Order Produces Mixed Reactions In The Villages
The executive order will expand privatized health care.
Read More »‘We’ve Been Talking Long Enough:’ Ex-Inmates Silently Protest Recent Prison Abuse
People traveled from hours across Florida to symbolically speak out against a recent prison attack.
Read More »Trump Rehashes Gripes, Rips ‘Radical’ Dems In 2020 Launch
The president kicks off his reelection campaign with blistering attacks at a rally in Orlando that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a second term.
Read More »Colton Fears Receives Prison Sentence In Shooting Incident That Followed Richard Spencer Event
Colton Fears, one of the men involved in the shooting that took place after the October 2017 Richard Spencer rally at the University of Florida, was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday.
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