The data and documentation just keeps stacking up showing shameful disparities between black and white people in Alachua County. Yet too often the response remains another workshop, conference or emotion-packed speech. If only we could talk these problems away. Don’t get me wrong: There is certainly a place for the gathering of concern-minded citizens and …

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The Orlando Economic Partnership honored hotelier Harris Rosen on Tuesday night for his contributions to Central Florida public education from preschool to college. Rosen received the group’s annual James B. Greene Award. “His support of the UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management, his vision in creating the Tangelo Park Foundation and the Parramore Foundation, and …

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After a recent trip to Orlando to visit two privately owned early learning centers located at public schools, Gainesville for All is more convinced than ever that its proposal for a similar facility in the Gainesville Empowerment Zone is vital to helping close the appalling achievement gap between black and white students in Alachua County. …

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Harris Rosen has a chain of eight hotels bearing his name in the Orlando area, but he makes most of his headlines these days for giving away his fortune. The 80-year-old entrepreneur of Rosen Hotels & Resorts, who grew up on the Lower East Side of New York, adopted the Tangelo Park neighborhood near his …

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