Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards in Texas Energy Fight

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            New Orleans      Texas has a reputation as oil country.  There aren’t drilling rigs on the state capitol grounds in Austin, like there are in Oklahoma City, but you can find them almost everywhere else.  Less well known is that Texas has also been a leader in building alternative energy production and integrating wind …

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When Florida’s DeSantis Coughs, Arkansas’s Sanders Sneezes

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            Little Rock       Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis in a Twitter technical meltdown has finally announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president.  The kowtowing Republican supermajority in the Florida legislature has gone out of their way to pass wild and wooly legislation to establish his ultra-conservative bonafides.  Less well known nationally has been the …

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ChatGPT, Friend or Foe?

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Marble Falls     I have been reading about this supposed breakthrough in artificial intelligence, A.I. to the cognoscenti, with something called ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer.  It’s early days, but the reactions have been across the board from open, loving embrace to fears that it is the end of education and learning …

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