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...family has been keeping bees around Hughson since the 1950s, remembers when beekeepers earned less than $10 per hive in pollination fees to supplement their main business: honey. "Almonds were nothing," says Johnson, examining some of his 700 hives, his snow white hair peeking out from beneath a green trucker hat. Today about 60% of Johnson's business is pollination. (The honey made from almond blossoms is too bitter to eat and is not harvested...
...some 26%, however, there is no help. David Young, 58, a trucker from North Carolina, is one of them. Since a 2007 diagnosis of stage IV kidney cancer, a rare disease, Young is struggling to maintain his employer-based insurance through a COBRA program - his premiums are now $1,332 a month, which consumes most of his Social Security disability benefits of about $1,500 a month, benefits that are too high to qualify for Medicaid. "I will be honest with you," Young says. "I've got a lot of friends who are so good to my family...
...online, "Chuckolytes" seem extremely, even strangely, devoted to you. The "Viva Chuck Todd" site says you "make sense of the senseless" and sells trucker caps in your honor...
...growing tired of the endless election and of watching a decision purportedly of the people turn into a legal free-for-all among high-powered politicians, lawyers and judges. "The politicians are going to decide it, the lawyers are going to decide it," says Dan Solem, 44, a trucker from Minneapolis who voted for Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley. "It's kind of a joke." Added Sarah MyTych, 21, a student at the University of Minnesota: "It just all seems like such a circus." (Read "Minnesota, This Is Your Senator...
...campaigns must agree upon which of the roughly 1,600 improperly rejected absentee ballots to include in the results. They came to a consensus on about 950 of those ballots. When asked about Coleman's argument that all of those improperly rejected absentee ballots should be counted, Solem, the trucker says, "Well, I guess they should count those. But it'd be nice if they just got this done and over with." Minnesotans, it appears, will just have to endure this recount like another bad winter...