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To the editor: Your recent articles on proposed data centers in De Soto, Tonganoxie and Lawrence captured the real dilemma. Our cities need new tax revenue to meet growing budgets, yet data centers sit at the heart of a controversial technology that remains largely unregulated. As a ...
To the editor: I'm 73 and I've been going to KU football games since I was a kid off and on, and I for one don't think it's worth it, and for the reasons you mentioned. But I have a caveat to that: Has the state of Missouri ever issued a formal apology to the state of Kansas for what ...
To the editor: Well done. Thank you for saying publicly what many of us have been thinking for decades. It’s time to end this toxic rivalry. Suzanne Mills, Lawrence
To the editor: In the early days of cloning DNA, an international group of experts met to set standards to protect human health. Why can’t we do something similar for AI? Now! Experts with the MIT AI Risk Initiative judge that many risks could cause catastrophic outcomes under current ...
To the editor: "A superpower is dying by suicide because the Republican Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the mad king." Journalist Garrett Graff wrote that sentence in a Wired Magazine column published Jan. 22, and historian Heather Cox Richardson quoted it in her own column, Jan. 26. ...
To the editor: If you are a woman who changed your last name after getting married, the upcoming vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment regarding citizenship and voting is crucial. The amendment would make it harder for you — even impossible — to vote in future elections. ...