panhandle
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Department of Homeland Security quietly bought an 825,000-square-foot warehouse in the state’s conservative western panhandle.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026
Smith of Franklin County, Fla., in the state’s panhandle, initially criticized ICE officers for not communicating with local law enforcement but said he has since opened a dialogue with them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Bentley: The first thing that comes to mind is the writing trip we took up to the Idaho panhandle — where the story was set and where the book was written.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026
In the age of artificial intelligence, it turns out that owning 5,700 acres of land in the Texas panhandle can outweigh having no revenue to speak of.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
“This panhandle feels like a shortcut through an entire state,” she says to Grandpa Ed.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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Another man said his friend, who regularly panhandles on a busy street, has been missing since the takeover began.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
“Everybody just has cards or their phones now,” said Sylvester Harris, a 54-year-old Washington native who panhandles near Capital One Arena.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
For the fourth consecutive day, tornadoes strafed the middle of the country Thursday, this time concentrated in sparsely populated panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas.
From Fox News ● May 24, 2019
A tornado threat was stalking the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2019
Distribution.—Western and southern Colorado, southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona and northern New Mexico, east to the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and to southwestern Kansas.
From Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions by Jones, J. Knox
No one camped on the sidewalks or panhandled at the park.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
“She’d panhandled on the street but she gave most of her money away.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020
She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018
He panhandled for candy money around Georgetown University.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
The underground staff scoured the countryside for paper and other supplies and panhandled on the streets of Manila for money.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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“When neighborhoods are plagued by issues such as aggressive panhandling, unruly street vending, public urination, abandoned vehicles, it gives the impression of an unsafe community,” she said in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Sprawled on a sidewalk near a freeway on-ramp, a man calling himself “Rabbit” was panhandling for money accompanied by his two beagle-pit bull mixes, Pooh Bear and Piglet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
While camping, aggressive panhandling, and other actions are currently illegal in D.C.,
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
In addition, there are rule changes on "panhandling, discrimination, consuming outside alcohol and vaping."
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025
“Umm...right, so the house went into foreclosure in 2009. That’s a year before he was spotted panhandling in the city.”
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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