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Editorials and columns

AI is helpful, but can fail on facts

I love using artificial intelligence technologies. They’re wildly powerful and helpful. They speed up research and summarize historical or philosophical ideas or help with practical problem solving. Hey, I’m not a plumber. Helpful as they can be, I see several hazards as we confront AI ...

Local News Day commentary for MPA

I started my journalism career with a typewriter, a notebook and a pretty basic motivation: I wanted to know what was happening in my community, and why. The typewriter is long gone, replaced by technologies I couldn’t have imagined back then. But across Michigan, the curiosity and ...

Big Tech’s ugly data centers finally meet the opposition

It appears that folks living in the gently rolling farmland of southwestern Ohio don't want a 2-million-square-foot data center plopped down the road from their front porches. What's wrong with them? Are they snotty not-in-my-backyard liberals? Not quite. Wilmington, Ohio, is a very ...

The ice melted. The impact didn’t.

Although we are a few weeks past the second “onceinalifetime” ice storm and many of us are ready to move on, we shouldn’t forget its impact. The storm affected more than our daily routines; it deeply impacted our business community, especially our small businesses. Like many of you, I ...

39 Days: Too Much or Not Enough?

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump's ceasefire announcement and, hours ...