Identifying Local Opportunities

For this assignment, I decided to look through the local newspaper, The Gainesville Sun, to find local opportunities. Here is what I found:

1. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/15A9388BC0BA7E30?p=AWNB  "More than 300 march to say: Hands off our parks" by Cindy Swirko                              This article talked about protesting that has been going on over by national park, Payne's Prairie. Governor Scott and Jon Steverson proposed a new idea of maybe privatizing parks so that recreational hunting, cattle grazing, etc. are allowed in such places. And a lot of locals are not happy about this. They claim that it would ruin the park and ruin the reason for national parks- to protect and preserve what's in them. If hunting and such were allowed, people would not be able to sight see or hike or anything, which is what the site is best known for. The locals felt that no one was hearing their cries, so they chose to protest. The locals are the ones that truly care about Gainesville's natural beauty and all that Payne's Prairie has to offer to such a small town. They don't want it to be ruined. 
2. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/15A88EA836BB0068?p=AWNB "Nathan Crabbe: Promoting lawmaking over fundraising"                                                This article was basically about a new proposal to ban Congress from asking people for money for their campaign's. So many law officials talked about how they spent over half of their times campaigning for money contributions, rather than actually working. The problem is that their are so many rules on how candidate's can fund raise, so they need more laws in place so that they can decentralize all of the work. It's not only a problem for the candidate's who have to do the fundraising, but also for all of their constituents because they have to spend so much time raising money, instead of working and doing all of the things that they told their constituents they would do.
3. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/15A7E65B509B4FF0?p=AWNB "UF union presidents: Campus gun bill is a recipe for tragedy"                                        This article was about banning guns on campus here at UF. Many people believe that allowing guns on campus is very dangerous and that something bad will eventually happen if we don't ban them. They compared it to not letting guns into courthouses and places like that- just as they are banned there, then they should be banned on school campuses as well. The problem for them is they are dangerous. Specifically, its the University of Florida chapters of Graduate Assistants United and the United Faculty of Florida that are presenting this problem and wanting it to be addressed.
4. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/15A7E65B137F9B90?p=AWNB "Bill would tighten rules for some abortion clinics"                                                            This article discusses the new bill that is being proposed in Florida that would require abortion clinics to be subject to the same standards as surgical clinics. It talks about both sides of the bill- the pro side says that it just holds clinics to a higher standard and protects patients, while the con side says that it is just unnecessary fees and statutes that they will have to face and just a reason to close down many of their clinics. The problem is that this new bill will cost a lot of money for many abortion clinics because they will have to renovate a lot and things like that, which will probably cause them to have to close down many of their clinics because of lack of money. The problem is faced by all against this bill, especially Planned Parenthood, because it will really dwindle down Florida's abortion clinics.
5. http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/15A791D9AF335FC0?p=AWNB "Larry Reimer: Use pause to reconsider capital punishment"                                          This article discusses a Pastor's problem with capital punishment  and how much he supports Florida's Supreme Court's ruling to ban it. He talks about all of cons to the death penalty like innocents dying, the high costs of execution, not enough punishment, etc. His problem was that he believes that capital punishment is wrong and unjust. He believes that the ultimate price for committing such bad crimes is life in prison without parole, not the death sentence. Larry Reimer and all others against capital punishment are who have the problem.