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‘Stop the turnpike’: Inverness residents call for city council to pass no build resolution

By Heather Bushman Buttons, bumper stickers, shirts and signs — all adorned with calls to “save it, don’t pave it” and “stop the turnpike” — were the accessories of choice for several Inverness residents on Tuesday evening. About 70 of these decorated locals gathered at the bi-monthly Inverness City Council meeting, where they voiced concerns regarding Read More…

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Transgender vs. School Bathroom Policy

A Transgender pro-family policy advocate who helped win support for the recently passed Alabama “bathroom bill,” which requires students to use bathrooms of their biological sex, is warning that school “trans” policies cause ripple effects of harm to girls even beyond sexual assault. In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Jameson Taylor, who serves as director of Read More…

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Fla. Prison Inmate J.J.Guagno Indicted Sent Threatening letter To Federal Judge

A federal grand jury has indicted a self-described gang member with a violent criminal history in a Florida prison, accusing him of mailing a ruthless threat to a senior federal judge in Jacksonville – and trying to frame one of his fellow prisoners, according to court records. In the handwritten letter, the writer graphically threatened Read More…

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60 Years of Activism in Gainesville: Denifield Player to Tiffany Pennamon

By Brooks Bass, Morgan Goldwich, Kevin Maher, Michaela Mulligan, Emma Ross and Thomas Weber May 20, 2021 Florida Good, Longform, Racial equity Thursday marks one month since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. And Tuesday is one year since Floyd’s death, an event that sparked months-long protests across the country in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More…

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Black Children VS. Juvenile Court System

In October 2021, ProPublica published a gutting and outrageous narrative of a juvenile court judge who oversaw a system that jailed children at extraordinary rates, and a county full of officials who collaborated or looked the other way. In one particularly egregious case that reporters Meribah Knight and Ken Armstrong found, several Black children were arrested Read More…

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Black News Channel Shutting Down

  Black News Channel, the Florida-based TV news service whose majority stakeholder is Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, is shutting down. The company announced the news of its shut down on Friday shortly after telling employees that their paychecks would be delayed, the Los Angeles Times reports. Although the channel was shopped to several media companies Read More…