Okaloosa County Plays a Real-life Game of Chicken

By D. L. Norris Around the 2010 time frame, the urban hipster locavore movement was sweeping the country, pushing for cities to allow chickens to be raised in urban backyards. The urban hipster movement is a liberal progressive movement and one would think that heavily conservative Okaloosa County would be immune from it; but, that …

Okaloosa County’s Emotional Need to Recycle

By D. L. Norris The secret is out, there is no money in recycling. The global market for recyclable material has collapsed and now, instead of Okaloosa County profiting by being paid for their recyclables, they have to pay others to haul their recyclables away. I’m not an economist, but I do have a basic …