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Minimize disruption from city road construction Luke Wegner Minot So what’s the deal with all of this road construction? It seems that any time you want to drive somewhere, you are guaranteed to run into some form of blockage or detour. The big one that I have a gripe with, though, is how often 16th Street and Broadway are shut down. My thought process and issue with this is the fact that those two streets are the main thoroughfares and essentially the only way to get from one side of the city to the other without taking some crazy back roads. If construction needs to be done on ...

Not quite grateful for broken arm

National Columnists

On the Sunday evening of Labor Day weekend, after a delightful dinner with close friends, I tripped over one of those ubiquitous electric rent-a-scooters. I went down hard, landing on my knee and arm, though luckily not hitting my head. At home that night, I couldn't even bend my left ...

AI moral panic demands leadership

National Columnists

The midterm elections are right around the corner. The time-tested solution? Find a scapegoat, go negative, and blame the other side. This year the weaponized bogeyman is artificial intelligence. Many Americans are falling for the anti-AI information operation. They ...

States should make clean-energy lemonade

National Columnists

In 2026, Americans have been handed two lemons: a warming climate and an artificial intelligence data-center boom straining the nation's electricity and water systems. Maybe it's time to squeeze them together and make lemonade. First lemon: Temperatures are rising around the world. ...

Will AI bring about Doomsday?

National Columnists

In the satirical 1964 anti-war film "Dr. Strangelove," fears of a "Doomsday machine," an automated, unstoppable device programmed to trigger global nuclear annihilation if the Soviet Union is attacked, gripped U.S. leaders and the Soviet ambassador in the American "war room." Predictions of ...

CLARITY Act failed, Bitcoin didn't

National Columnists

The Senate's rejection of the CLARITY Act was not simply another episode of Democrats opposing President Donald Trump or Republicans failing to maintain party unity. Nor was it a declaration that cryptocurrency has no future in the United States. The bill was overtaken by a more ...