Picture this: A congressional hearing on “AI policy” makes the evening news. A senator gravely asks whether artificial intelligence might one day “wake up” and take over the world. Cameras flash.

Back on March 6, I began what turned into a full-blown obsession. That was the day longtime politico, former Santa Cruz Mayor and City Councilmember, and longtime Metro Board and RTC Commissioner Mike ...

In his recent commentary, Republican state Sen. Justin Ready couches our energy choices as “climate-fatalist ideology rather than scientific cost-benefit analysis” (“We need energy policy that serves ...