By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum picked up where they left off Wednesday in their second and final debate of the Florida gubernatorial campaign, in an hour full of heated exchanges which began with a handshake and ended with…
By Sarah Smith | gargoyle@flagler.edu Story originally appeared on DeSantis-vs-Gillum.com, a Gargoyle-affiliated website dedicated to covering Florida’s 2018 Gubernatorial Election between Ron DeSantis (R) and Andrew Gillum (D). Worries over such issues as the environment and immigration are likely to push many voters to turn…
By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view the…
By Katherine Hamilton | gargoyle@flagler.edu Barbara Westfield was making beds at her in-home daycare when her uncle called and asked if her husband, John, was working at the firehouse that day. When she said yes, she was met with silence. Turning on the television to…
By Angalyse Keyock | gargoyle@flagler.edu As the fall season approaches, the northern United Stated begins to see a change in color from the leaves before they fall to the ground. However, as the fall season approaches in Florida, that is far from true. Transferring from East Stroudsburg…
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu West Augustine resident Jaime Perkins knows how steep a hill it will be to the District 17 Florida House of Representatives seat. The last non-Republican state representative in the district left office in 2004. St. Johns County voters are more…
By Jared Olson, photos by Adriana Cabezas | gargoyle@flagler.edu Just past 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, protesters gathered in the sweltering late summer heat before the Hamilton Correctional Institute Annex—a remote prison complex in the pine woods near Jasper, Florida, seven-and-a-half miles south of…
By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view the…
By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view the…
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Less than a mile from downtown St. Augustine, where thousands of visitors stroll around daily, snapping photos, and riding in horse-drawn carriages is a neighborhood that’s seemingly worlds away. In West Augustine, a predominantly African American neighborhood, a Family Dollar…