Opinion

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Opinion: Don’t fall for the chatbot’s charm

Leave it to a comedian with a national TV platform to express what troubles a lot of us, even if we hesitate to talk about it — for fear of being ridiculed as backward-looking worry warts. “When the people who are making AI are scared of AI, it’s time to shut the whole thing down until ...

Opinion: Trump’s final humiliation of Lindsey Graham

Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you’d feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the belief (or was it a ...

Opinion: Which Kansas Dems will win?

Former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius once said that in Kansas “Democrats don’t win; Republicans lose.” Given how registered Republicans greatly outnumber registered Democrats throughout the state, that makes sense: Sometimes low-engagement Republicans dislike their party’s candidates and just ...

Opinion: Guilfoyle never mastered the art of the shakedown

About three weeks before Republicans expect an electoral beating, Donald Trump had to get rid of Kimberly Guilfoyle, his ambassador to Greece. He simply had to. Trump’s money-grabbing corruption was wearing thin even on devoted fans, but the president knew how to wrap his mob-like patter ...

Letter to the editor: STAR bond deserved a chance

To the editor: Lawrence, Kansas is not open for business The City Commission’s 5-0 vote on Oct. 13 on Resolution No. 7710 regarding the STAR bonds district and not allowing the public hearing phase to proceed spoke very loudly to the rest of the country: Lawrence, Kansas is not open for ...