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Gainesville toxic waste site may be one step closer to final cleanup
In Gainesville, a story that started around 40 years ago seems to be coming to a final chapter. The location is the old Cabot-Koppers facility on NW 23rd Avenue. It was designated as a superfund site in 1983 and, according to the EPA, is contaminated with toxic waste. Last night, the EPA and the property owner, Beazer Property, held an open house. Some of the cleanup work that's reportedly already been done includes removal of contaminated soil and better stormwater drainage.
Cooler temperatures are here at last! Here's how UF students are making the most of it
i Learn more Our news site introduces games and puzzles to engage readers. Please complete the quick puzzle below before reading the article. You may have noticed it's a bit cooler in North Central Florida. All week, high temperatures drop into the 70s. WUFT's David Caine found that, at the University of Florida, students are already flocking to outdoor fields to enjoy the cooler weather. He talked to a few of them to ask, how they're feeling about fall.
Planners met with community frustration at meeting for a future Gainesville memorial site
i Learn more Our news site introduces games and puzzles to engage readers. Please complete the quick puzzle below before reading the article. The soon-to-be revitalized Thelma Boltin Center site had its second planning meeting Sept. 29, where planners heard from community members about what they wanted from the project.
Columbia County program helps adult students graduate high school
Think back to when you finished high school. It's easy to take education for granted. But sometimes, life gets in the way and not everyone finishes. In Columbia County, the public library is trying to help those who were unable to finish through their Career Online High School program. Its open to any Columbia residents over 19 years old with a library card. The program gives students two things: a high school diploma and a career certificate.
UFPD introduces new K-9 explosion detection unit
The University of Florida Police Department has added Maverick, a black Labrador retriever trained to detect explosives, to its K-9 unit. The newest and youngest of the bunch, Maverick, helps with bomb detection and increased security for university events with the help of his handler, K-9 Officer Jenna Cuevo. While this is work for Maverick, he is always excited to come to campus to meet people and explore. Cuevo said that he loves coming to work as much as she does.
Importance of Opening Dialogue: The Iran Conflict Case Study - David caine
Meaningful dialogue is what allows students to engage with the world around them to the best of their ability. In my experience, staying in an echo chamber full of the same small range of perspectives negatively affects one’s ability to think critically about controversial topics like the current war with Iran.
Importance of Opening Dialogue: The Iran Conflict Case Study
Meaningful dialogue is what allows students to engage with the world around them to the best of their ability. In my experience, staying in an echo chamber full of the same small range of perspectives negatively affects one’s ability to think critically about controversial topics like the current war with Iran.
The Blogs: Antisemitism has been permitted on UF Campus
On Mar. 21, 2025, University of Florida Law student Preston Damsky posted an antisemitic message to X, using a Marxist professor’s desire to remove the inequality of privilege by “abolishing the White race” to justify harming Jews. After UF barred him from campus, Damsky filed a lawsuit, and US District Judge Allen Winsor ruled on Nov. 24, 2025 that his statements were protected, ordering that UF allow him back to class.
At My School and Others, Students for Justice in Palestine Continues to Erase History
At My School and Others, Students for Justice in Palestine Continues to Erase History [contact-form-7 id= title="Contact Author"] Rutgers University students holding an anti-Zionist demonstration on March 19, 2024. Photo: USA Today Network via Reuters Connect On the two-year anniversary of the Oct.
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David Caine is a sophomore journalism student and CAMERA Fellow at the University of Florida.
Hillel Academy food drive offers lessons in citizenship
For the final week of November, teacher Lisa Caine and her 11 third-grade students at Hillel Academy in Tampa brushed aside traditional studies and put their heads together to start a food drive that turned into a schoolwide competition. In total, the students collected more than 1,000 canned goods to be sent to people in need through Feeding Tampa Bay. Each month at Hillel Academy, Caine’s class learns about a new character trait, and what it means to exemplify that.
Flightpath Update
Editor’s Note: David Caine is the founder of Quiet Skies Lake Arrowhead, an organization intended to make the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) move flight paths away from Lake Arrowhead for various reasons. The most frequent question I hear from people after they identify me is “oh, you’re the Airplane Guy! What’s the skinny on with the flight path?
Flightpath Issue One Year Later
Residents and visitors watched in disgust as jet liners flew low, loud and frequently in a route across the lake, heading toward Ontario International Airport (ONT). Cargo carriers (UPS/FedEx/DHL/Amazon Prime) and passenger jets began a constant assault on our solitude – with roar and thunder all day, all night and in the early morning hours.
Introducing StorylineJS
StorylineJS makes it easy to tell the story behind a dataset, without the need for programming or data visualization expertise. Just upload your data to Google Sheets, add two columns, and fill in the story on the rows you want to highlight. Set a few configuration options and you have an annotated chart, ready to embed on your website. (And did we mention, it looks great on phones?) As with all of our tools, simplicity is a priority.
A quick look at recommendation engines and how the New York Times makes recommendations
A recent prediction that algorithmic curation would be one of the major trends of 2016 got me thinking about news recommendation engines. I’ve always been curious about the technology so I recently started digging into what makes them work and realized there is a whole lot to learn. But a little research and conversation with a newsroom technologist at New York Times helped me to understand how they work.
An inside look at The Guardian's effort to document deaths at the hands of law enforcement in "The Counted"
The Guardian's "The Counted" documents law enforcement killings in the United States. On Nov. 15, Richard Perkins was fatally shot by officers in Oakland, California. His death marked the 1,000th entry in The Guardian’s The Counted’s database that now includes more than 1,063 names. The project launched June 1, and has quickly won acclaim for its relatively robust law enforcement killings database, which is generated via tips submitted on the Guardian website or on social media.
ONA15: How news organizations build simple bots to help report the news
It’s no secret that newsrooms are increasingly using bots to cut down on busy work. Software now routinely churns out quarterly earnings stories for The Associated Press and earthquake alerts for Los Angeles Times, freeing reporters to pursue more in-depth projects. And while no bot can write 3,000-word investigative stories, it can assist reporters by alerting them to new data and filtering the information for them.
MozFest 2014: Thinking about (and soon building) sentient articles
Notes and questions from the MozFest session On the first day of MozFest, I went to an intriguing session called “Rise of the Sentient Articles.” Led by ProPublica’s Sisi Wei and Ryann Jones, the session encouraged participants to brainstorm the future of news powered by algorithms. What if articles modified themselves based on an individual reader’s needs?
A journalist's beginner guide to code and web proficiency
It's really easy to make it through journalism school without picking up a stitch of coding knowledge. But you know this already. Hacker journalists have written article after blog post about how the new crop of journalists needs to sit down, plug in and plain learn the essentials of the web. Well, some of us are listening. But if you're anything like me, the skills it takes to become web-proficient (to say nothing of a newsapps team-level programmer) can still seem woefully opaque.
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