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The Gainesville Sun Editorial Board East Gainesville has long experienced a lack of access to health care and economic opportunities as compared to the west side of our community. Then the COVID-19 pandemic came along. The pandemic has shown how long-standing racial and socioeconomic disparities affect the lives as well as livelihoods of too many Gainesville residents. Black residents in particular face higher rates of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, a problem worsened in east Gainesville by barriers to getting health care. City Commissioner Gigi Simmons is serving her first term representing District 1, which includes east Gainesville, downtown and the Porters neighborhood where she grew up. Even before she was elected to the job, she was a community advocate who worked on such efforts as bringing GED classes, voter registration drives and an expanded crime watch program to the neighborhood. ....
The election for the at-large Gainesville City Commission seat pits an incumbent who said she will focus on equity against a longtime outspoken critic of city government. If elected to a second term, Commissioner Gail Johnson said she would focus on racial “equity, inclusion and justice” in every facet of her decision-making process. Johnson, who was elected as an at-large commissioner in 2018, said she wants these virtues to be the litmus test applied to all facets of city government from affordable housing to new development to city contracts to the racial makeup of the city’s workforce. Her opponent is 85-year-old Gabe Hillel, a former attorney who said he doesn’t expect to win this time either because he s made so many enemies with his outspoken comments. ....
‘It just doesn’t make sense’: Seminary Lane development given green light by state judge The plan that some residents objected to will be re-evaluated by the city to give final approval to high-rise luxury apartments January 13, 2021 | 6:01am EST Protestors march at a demonstration against building luxury student apartments on land located in in a historically Black community in Gainesville Thursday, June 18, 2020. The protest drew more than 300 people. Photo by Ariana Aspuru | The Independent Florida Alligator NKwanda Jah remembers the taste of cherry Coca-Cola and the wafting smell of hot dogs coming from Rev. James Cato’s store on Pleasant Street. ....