On July 6, when the County Commission denied a solar farm in Archer, key points were ignored.
First, the heartfelt stories by opponents of the solar farm described pride in generational ownership of land, seeing wildlife and having gardens. While they saw solar as opposition to these things, there is nothing about solar that would affect those experiences.
Second, there is extensive data showing climate change to disproportionately affect the Black community. While a few neighbors celebrated the denial of the solar farm, they and the broader Black community will continue to suffer hardship as food and energy production and health are diminished by the changing environment.
Gainesville City Commissioners vote to end the Pay-As-You-Throw program
The 27-year-old system is coming to an end in Gainesville May 17, 2021 | 6:10am EDT Plastic bottles and cartons were placed inside of orange and blue bins for recycling on Southwest 23rd Drive in Gainesville on Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
With a newborn baby in her house, Nina Bhattacharyya finds it increasingly important to save money and cut down on waste.
However, with the Gainesville City Commission’s May 6 decision to remove the Pay-As-You-Throw program, the Zero Waste Gainesville founder is concerned about her ability to do so.
Pay-As-You-Throw began in Gainesville in 1994, and the purpose of the program was to create an incentive for residents to produce less waste by making it more expensive to own a larger trash bin, Bhattacharyya said. Homeowners can choose from four trash bins, each with a different size and price. The smallest bin h
Letters to the editor for April 10, 2021 The Gainesville Sun
Right-wing rhetoric
What is it with the Gainesville Sun and sports columnists who parrot Republican talking points? First it was recently retired Pat Dooley who showed his political colors by belittling Colin Kaepernick s kneeling during the national anthem.
Now it s Dooley s replacement, David Whitley, taking the right-wing slant on Major League Baseball s moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in support of protests to Georgia s new racially restrictive voting law. Whitley even makes use of right-wing rhetoric with the word woke, which means well, I m not sure what it means. But I know it s a favorite of conservative pundits who want to ridicule liberal concerns over aspects of institutional racism.
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