Artificial Intelligence with its promise to solve all our problems is undergoing an image crisis. The cost of AI to society is not just the threat to our jobs, but the damage it’s bringing to our land and our ability to live on it. Throw in local control our Republican legislature has taken from us, and it looks like we need to fight back. Emily Asaf lays out a plan to regain some of that control.
It’s a fair question to ask how many guns, what kinds of guns, and how many guns in the hands of how many people are necessary to keep a community like ours in Jefferson County safe. Could there be too many guns or too many hands? Our Republican legislators think there are not enough of either and want to expand gun ownership universally to 18-20 year-olds and to permit ownership of automatic weapons. Emily Asaf argues the case, focusing on safety.
Keeping our youth in West Virginia is proving a more and more elusive goal. Our Republican dominated government seems to be putting its hope in data centers, though these will not produce resilient jobs . At the same time, it’s cutting or weakening social programs that make living here affordable and attractive to young people. They leave and we’re left with a declining population.