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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