Larry McDermott
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- Oct 1, 2026
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- Aug 20, 2026
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AI will escalate our downward spiral (opens the original)
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is such a tempting enabler for many folks. Overnight, a farmer or landscaper who couldnât draw or write a lick to create a promotional splash for their business can now whip out a slick promo. Who cares that all these promos done in AI on a laptop on the kitchen table look just like the competitionâs? The handyman who couldnât write a complete simple sentence can now throw his spoken word salad into AIâs magic salad spinner and out comes his dazzling creation
First Amendment under full assault In Washington (opens the original)
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Any more these days, little surprises me about the peculiar world of which our White House is the center. Some decisions that affect us are wrong on such an elementary level. I use the term âelementaryâ because some of this stuff might best be described as painting a rock red and trying to sell it as an apple. The First Amendment is the easiest amendment to our Constitution to understand. Our Founding Fathers knew from the get-go that certain freedoms are so vital that without them a democra
Our drive for convenience is a deadly ringer (opens the original)
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Today I find myself lamenting our losses to convenience, a slow-moving lava flow effort to make everything we do faster, easier, portable and still be fun. Iâll admit Iâm not a patient person, and I too have been known to succumb to the lure of modern convenience while readily confessing to a passion for fast old cars. But the sounds. Weâre losing the sounds. This little mental detour occurred for me when I read something someone wrote about the game cornhole replacing the game of horsesho
Some good advice to public speakers at commissioners meetings (opens the original)
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It was interesting, entertaining, puzzling, baffling and painful. And, a wee bit encouraging. Public hearings on local government issues that are to be decided by a body of elected officials sometimes become a mirror of our society. There I stood, leaning against a pillar at the back of the courtroom like a good reporter does, while a parade of mostly impassioned but often uninformed citizens took turns letting the Polk County Board of Commissioners know where they stood on the issue of borrowin
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