Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: How prosecutors and parents plead guilty to cheating and bribing their kids into the nation’s top universities, and how local activists connected to Black Lives Matter have died in disturbing ways since the death of Michael Brown.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: The downfall of one Florida man's efforts to crowd-fund Trump's border wall, and Tennessee activists organized for years to free Cyntoia Brown.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: How are natural-disaster-related deaths counted, and Apple's "software locks" are killing independent and home repairs.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: Self-driving cars may not be that much safer, and scientists are testing spermicidal birth control.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: Florida prisoners went on strike in mid-January, and Sen. Inhofe continues to believe that climate change is a hoax.
Ouch! That hurts, doesn’t it? Paper Cuts are our short, erratic and slightly painful updates on current, local and national events. This issue: A Russian scientist wants to perform the first human head transplant, and clothing dye might soon be made from e. coli.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: Trans people of color are incarcerated at disproportionate rates and a feminist magazine takes on venture-capitalist-funded media.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: Gay men are disappearing in Chechnya and researchers discovered how to hack your phone using sound waves.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the U.S., and activist DeRay McKesson's mayoral fiasco.
Not-necessarily-Gainesville-based news: Chicago black youth kicked Anita Alvarez out of office, and Poland is in a state of crisis.