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Local Commentaries

Is AI truly “the future,” or is it being marketed that way?

To The Reader’s Forum: “The world goes along only one road -- the road of progress.” -Charles Kettering, American businessman, 1929. The rhetoric is everywhere: AI is an “inevitable” part of modern life, and people who question the truth of this phrase are reactionaries clinging ...

On Being Creatures of Habit

I was thinking the other day about how all living beings are creatures of habit. I remember, as a kid, bringing the cows in for milking. We would open the back door of the barn, and most of those cows would head right for their stall. There were 30 or 40 cows, but each knew which stall was ...

Randolph resident questions school finances

The people of this district have been patient long enough. We have asked questions. We have attended meetings. We have voted. Yet the fundamental question remains unanswered: Where did the money go? Taxpayers deserve transparency, not deflection. They deserve accountability, not excuses. And ...

I’m not Tevye, but I like how he thought

One of my favorite musicals since it arrived on the stage scene in 1964, and hit the Big Screen in 1971, is Fiddler on the Roof, the story of a poor Jewish family struggling to maintain their religious beliefs and teachings in a settlement of Imperial Russia set around 1905, about the same time ...

A Job Means Almost Everything

When Martin Luther (the originator of the Protestant Reformation), in the early 1500s, wrote that any honest vocation is pleasing to God, one has a glimpse of what is known as the “Protestant work ethic.” A job brings some independence from parents to a high school graduate or college ...