Wow, that's ridiculous. Here's a Bush who's actively tried to fight racism, and promote higher education, so let's not give him an honor we normally give anyone who donates enough $$.

Not that anyone really cares about or needs an honorary degree to begin with. Just seems they want out of their way to slight him.

It doesn't seem much like news to me. Could you imagine if there was a story every time I didn't get an honorary degree. It seems like the article in and of it self has the potential to make Jeb look bad. It leans to the left simply on the editor's acceptance of news-worthiness. However, the language of the story is objective and if anything a little to the right. Bush is touted as having benefited the school, and it seems that this kind of refusal by the school's senate is unheard of.
Don't be confused Alex, just because a story irritates you, doesn't mean it is biased. The bias you have called into question is with the U of F, not with the associated press.

You're right in that the article is written without bias, but nail on the head: why is this news?