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Partisan Hackery

Partisan Hackery

Trent Gautney, Opinions Reporter Mar 31, 2020

Last Wednesday, the Senate passed a $2 trillion stimulus package in response to the coronavirus. The House passed the bill and sent in to President Trump the following Friday who signed it into law.  For...

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Opinions: No Safe Spaces movie review

Opinions: No Safe Spaces movie review

Matthew Caballero, Opinions Writer Jan 6, 2020

Out of all the great films that came out this fall semester, one of the least talked about was No Safe Spaces, a documentary made by Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla. As someone that has never really liked...

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Opinions: black masculinity, the gay agenda, and celebs — it’s complicated

Devan Shepard Nov 11, 2019

The blogs have been abuzz lately with a video Alicia Keys did concerning taking her son to get his nails done. Here is a break down of the whole situation. Now this has started a big debate about what...

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Opinions: Stripping away the politics

Trent Gautney, Opinions writer Oct 14, 2019

A little over a year has passed since the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court.  On October 6, 2018, Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed to the highest...

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Opinions: Vehicular War

Trent Gautney, Opinions Reporter Oct 3, 2019

If you have driven on the UNF campus anytime in the past couple of months you have probably noticed a glaring problem: there is absolutely no parking to be found. Attempting to park in the garages anytime...

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336-hour bar

Austin Belet, Opinions editor Sep 26, 2019

There is one 14-day period that is perhaps one of the strangest habits in American work culture that I have experienced in my life: the time between submitting a two week notice and properly leaving a...

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Opinions: Stay Safe, Ospreys

Austin Belet, Opinions Editor Sep 2, 2019

For those of us who have resided in the state of Florida since we were kids, hurricanes often spelled out days of adventure, braving the wind and the rain of an ecological terror passing or passing through...

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A gross display of inhumanity

Austin Belet, Opinions Editor Aug 23, 2019

“It’s going to happen again.” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said these words in a recent presentation in defense of the Guardian Program that the state had implemented in 2018.  The...

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Opinions: 2 scrolls, at a glance

Austin Belet, Opinions Editor Aug 12, 2019

Content Warning: This article contains content that may provoke certain groups of people.  Within a week, our country has experienced three mass shootings that have captivated public attention. 36...

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Opinions: It’s time we cancel out this cancel culture

Devan Shepard Aug 6, 2019

A few days ago, TV host and 90's heartthrob Mario Lopez stepped into uncharted territory while he was a guest on a YouTube show done by controversial Trump supporter Candace Owens. Lopez was giving his...

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Everyone’s Got One

Austin Belet, Opinions Editor Jul 18, 2019

As the Opinions Editor at Spinnaker, one of my more recent goals has been to expand the perspectives showcased in the “opinions” section of our organization.  I know that my pieces are biased,...

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Opinion: How Do We Stop It?

Austin Belet, Opinions Editor Jul 8, 2019

Whether you are in the warm tropical climate of Cocoa Beach or the swampy underbelly of Gainesville, one thing Floridians love the most is our climate. Sure, we complain about the humidity sometimes and...

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