Boone Pickens stole the spotlight with his plans to build the world's largest wind farm slightly north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, the state's most powerful wind energy resources remain untapped.

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Joe owns some 800, 000 acres, mostly pine plantations in the state's Panhandle.

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Oil has hit barrier islands off Mississippi and Alabama, and was only six miles off the Florida Panhandle on Thursday morning, state emergency management officials have reported.

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Republicans usually rely on northern part of the state --- from Pensacola in the Panhandle to Jacksonville in the east -- and on places like Sarasota and Naples along the Gulf coast.

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In the 2000 election, CNN and other networks projected Al Gore the winner of that state before the Central Time Zone polls closed in the Florida Panhandle.

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