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I have been involved in artificial intelligence since its earliest days, having been Marvin Minsky’s first doctoral student at MIT.Until AI can do air traffic control and take good care of patients in nursing homes, it will not replace people.Paul...

Carl Doerner’s recent column [“History happening behind the scenes,” Recorder, Nov. 27] along with recent critiques of Henry Kissinger’s reign, recalls the days of what Bill Moyers called “the secret government,” when a coup d’etat, as the Kennedy...

On Dec. 5 and Dec. 7, the Recorder reported two Open Meeting Law complaints in Greenfield.Regarding a complaint against the Board of Health, the Recorder reports that Mayor Roxann Wedegartner said the city’s attorney, Jesse Belcher-Timme, plans to...

Bishop William Byrne’s Dec. 6 guest column “A message of welcome to the LGBTQ+ community” is disingenuous in the extreme. He and a group called Catholics for Inclusion have met “to discuss how the Catholic churches in our area can become genuinely...

Having been a vegetarian for nearly 50 years, I certainly share many of the sentiments of the Animal Liberation Front that allegedly released birds from the Fullflight Game Farm with an act of vandalism as reported by the Recorder recently [“Animal...

On Wednesday, speaking from the White House, President Joe Biden said “Make no mistake: Today’s vote is going to be long remembered, and history is going to judge harshly those who turned their backs on freedom’s cause. And now they’re (Republicans)...

I’m writing this letter in praise of our local hospital, Baystate Franklin Medical Center. I went to the Emergency Room at 6:30 a.m. of Nov. 22. After several days of feeling horrible, I had no choice but to give in.From the front desk receptionist,...

Question for our legislators. On a voice vote, not a roll call vote, to provide free phone calls and video calls for all prisoners in Massachusetts — why? Law-abiding citizens have to pay for phone calls and video calls. Why are criminals more...

I am writing to urge people to contact their state senators and representatives to ask them to support bills S.1319 and H.2082. These bills would give municipalities the ability to regulate large solar installations by removing the following words...

I was amused by Mayor Roxann Wedegartner’s comments in the Recorder’s Nov. 30 edition. She invites all of us to come to Greenfield to shop now that parking is free in all municipal parking lots.Wow! Now that’s a dream come true. “There is so much to...

I don’t often agree with columnist Jon Huer. I have to agree his recent column was spot on [“Pictures without words,” Recorder, Dec. 2]. Without dialogue one does not know what the image is trying to say. An image can conjure up a multitude of...

Skipping over the undercurrent of muddled thinking in Jon Huer’s recent column “Pictures without words” [Recorder, Dec. 2]. (TV is not “all pictures” — it is radio with pictures, which is a very different thing), perhaps it’s worth pointing out that...

A zoning bylaw of the town of Wendell prohibited “Stand Alone Battery Energy Storage Facilities.” The town bylaw has been rejected by a Massachusetts attorney general ruling. State authorities are grappling with how to replace fossil emissions with...

I agree with columnist Al Norman that “the curse of living in a rural landscape like Wendell is having to endure unreasonable corporate development assaults.” [“Assault and batteries in Wendell,” Recorder, Nov. 15].We should not let Wendell fight this...

Two events occurred this past week that reminded me of where I was when they happened.Nov. 22, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated, my husband Jim and I were in Lugano, working at the American School in Switzerland. It was already evening there when we...

No. The southern border isn’t open. Not even close. At least this is what we are being told by columnist Razvan Sibii [“Is the southern border open?” Recorder, Nov. 24]. Tell that to Elizabeth Sullivan and Jim Steinle, whose daughter, Kate was cut...

Razvan Sibii, a senior journalism lecturer at UMass, wrote a My Turn stating that the southern border isn’t open [“Is the southern border open?” Recorder, Nov. 24].The border is a catastrophe. The fact is the Biden administration is allowing millions...

As an independent voter, I believe independent voters can end this dangerous fascist talk coming from Donald Trump. If all independents voted Republican against Trump, then we could save this country early before the election.Independents have the...

By KIM CLARK

At this end of the year, when we celebrate connection, gratitude, and highlight good works, I want to give a big shout-out to some of our western Massachusetts organizations that make huge efforts each year to bring education of animal rights, human...

I am writing to express my opposition to the proposed lithium battery storage project in Wendell on wooded land adjacent to high-tension power lines behind 68 Wendell Depot Road.This battery does not create any new power and will not power anything in...