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The University of Florida campus in Gainesville. On Monday, the university’s board of trustees voted unanimously to appoint Donald Landry, an administrator at Columbia University, to be its interim president. (Bryan Pollard/Dreamstime/TNS)

UF’s presidential salary has exploded in the last 20 years. Here’s why.

December 4, 2025 at 10:55 a.m.

The University of Florida paid Bernie Machen a base salary $375,000 in 2024. Now UF’s acting president salary is three times as high, far outpacing inflation.

A digital sign stating you must be over age 21 to purchase tobacco products is seen on display at a smoke shop in Brandon on Aug. 23. Tobacco incidents in Florida schools has largely risen over the past decade, with a particular explosion in the use of electronic cigarettes, or vaping.

Tobacco use in Florida schools spiked this decade. The culprit? Vaping

August 28, 2025 at 7:32 a.m.

It’s become so widespread, said Pasco Superintendent John Legg, that vaping has become a “big problem — believe it or not — in our elementary schools.”

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