In the past week I had my first chance to experience AI (artificial intelligence) through my email server. Messages from my sister and friends now come with a suggested AI reply. All it takes is one click and you can reply to the message. There’s nothing wrong with the messages the computer ...

Spring comes in spits and sputters. A beautiful sun-basted day is followed by howling northwest wind, followed by snow/rain, followed by south wind, leading to a beautiful sun-basted day. Winter is slow to let go its grip. March can be unsure of its season. But it is April. Spring will win ...

Bonnie Jean (Madden) Davis was born in July 1935 in the old, Dr. Ford hospital on South 4th Street in Marshall, but her story begins on a farm in rural Lynd. Her life journey brought her back to Marshall and a career teaching kindergarten in the Marshall Public Schools. Bonnie identified her ...

While there are many capital park, street and wastewater projects happening in the city this year that were highlighted in my monthly column a couple of months ago, there are also a number of administrative priorities and work that also will make up a big part of city’s year ahead. While ...

For those of us on the prairie, stocked trout provide perhaps the best introduction to fishing for the species. Once my brother and I, along with a select number of friends, had learned of a population of the salmonids that had flown under the radar stocked in a lake near my hometown, I was ...

How would you handle the following situation? I wanted to buy a new pair of hiking boots, and went to a local shoe store. Walking through the store, I saw a pair of boots costing $200, and a similar pair costing $80. Both pairs looked very sturdy and felt comfortable. Why the difference in ...