Beekeeping in the Florida Panhandle: beekeeping equipment – part 1
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Beekeeping in the Florida Panhandle: beekeeping equipment – part 1

Danny Bost, Central Panhandle Beekeepers Association Like any new hobby, beekeeping can be expensive.  There are fancy, high-priced hives marketed today, offering unique capabilities for beekeepers. To be honest, though, honey bees do not care. They live in trees, eaves of homes, under shed flooring, and any other place they can find suitable for their…

Neighbors, start your Christmas lights!
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Neighbors, start your Christmas lights!

Jase Graves Each year the weekend after Thanksgiving, I sense an innate urge to risk life, limb and public humiliation by festooning the exterior of our home with several hundred C9 incandescent lights. (I’m still resisting the whole LED craze – also known as “the Devil’s bulbs.”) My mild-mannered next-door neighbor and I always engage…

Welcome to the world of MAGA machismo, where muscles trump brains
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Welcome to the world of MAGA machismo, where muscles trump brains

Dick Polman Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now: Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with…

Congress needs to take action or your taxes will be going up
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Congress needs to take action or your taxes will be going up

Peter Roff The latest data suggests a drop in energy prices may have tamed the inflation monster. President Joe Biden certainly hopes so, since the marks he’s getting from the American people for his handling of the economy are some of the lowest on record. What people think and what the data shows don’t always…

Will 25-year milestone bring a second wind?
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Will 25-year milestone bring a second wind?

Danny Tyree Well, that quarter-century went by faster than the weaver’s shuttle! (Almost as fast as younger readers Googling, “What the %$#@& is a weaver’s shuttle?”) As of late October, I have been pounding out a Tyrades! column every week for 25 years without a single break, and with no plans to slow down. Why…

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Joe Biden continues to wreck our world

The world is nothing but murders, massacres, and the threat of war. It’s gotten so bad, you wake up and ask, “Who died overnight?†Or “Whose rockets and bombs hit who this time?†I’ll go out on a limb here and blame most of the world’s turmoil and tragedy on President Biden and his handlers….