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Jones Edmunds secures $20M contract renewal from NASA

  www.nasa.gov — NASA has re-upped its contract with Gainesville-based civil engineering firm Jones Edmunds for work primarily on the space agency’s Space Launch System manned deep-space program. One key solution Jones Edmunds is developing is making sure Kennedy Space [...]

March 18, 2015 Business, Tech

Domino’s, CareSpot Named as Tenants in New Gainesville Development

dominos.com — Construction will be done in a week or so on the new Archer Centro West complex in the 3500 and 3600 blocks of Archer Road, said the complex’s owner, Paul D’Alto. Meanwhile, three of the eventual four tenants [...]

March 12, 2015 Business

Still in Debt, Gator Stompin’ Pushes on with ‘Contained’ Budget

GatorStompin.com — The debt owed to restaurants, bars, contractors and others following last year’s Gator Stompin’ event has been chopped to roughly half — or about $65,000 from an amount that once approached $150,000. But the head organizer said Gainesville’s [...]

February 20, 2015 Business, Music & Arts, Travel & Culture

The Last Public Swastikas in Berlin (video and photos)

— During my trip to Berlin last year, I asked our tour guide, a university researcher in Nazi history, if there are any public displays of swastikas left in Berlin. Sure enough, he said, there are two symbols of Hitler’s Third Reich, [...]

February 18, 2015 History, Photo, Travel & Culture

How to Make Money on YouTube — My First $100

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February 11, 2015 Business, Journalism/Communications, Photo, Tech

Kurt Vonnegut Quotes: My Top 5 Excerpts from Slaughterhouse Five

— After tackling Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions, the next clear Vonnegut choice was his magnum opus, Slaughterhouse Five. The story centers around Billy Pilgram, a chaplain’s assistant in the U.S. Army who bounces around in time throughout the [...]

January 30, 2015 History, Music & Arts