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The Gainesville Sun
Change city’s name
A recent edition of Gainesville Magazine featured an article titled Renaming efforts reframe local history. The renaming involved local public school buildings and University of Florida buildings.
But something bigger may deserve a renaming, on similar grounds: the city of Gainesville. To judge from his Wikipedia entry, the namesake of Gainesville was known principally for leading soldiers who killed Native Americans and Mexicans.
Perhaps there are other people associated with the city who might serve as better inspirations for our citizens, young and old. For example, Howard Odom, the famed energy scientist who taught at UF. Or Indian chief Payne, of Paynes Prairie.
The Gainesville Sun
War against facts
I am outraged that Gov. Ron DeSantis is actively working to suppress vital data on COVID-19 in Florida.
Who does he think he is? How does he presume to know more than peer-reviewed science? How can his inferior knowledge trump that of people literally paid to do the very thing he’s preventing them from doing?
DeSantis doesn t care about science, or that, during his tenure as governor, thousands of residents have become sick and died from this novel pathogen, including my late, MAGA-loving, Democrat hoax believing elderly mother.
He wages war against facts and inspires people statewide to selfishly, deplorably dismiss masks and social distancing.