Saranac Lake residents who have seen the latest plan to build an emergency services facility at 33 Petrova Ave. might wonder how this 59,000 square-foot project — including 120 interior rooms and a half kilometer of hallways for a combined 83-person fire, rescue and police force — ever got ...

Twenty-five years ago, gold was $275 an ounce. Recently, it hit $4300 an ounce. Each dollar (to buy gold) is worth less than 1/15th of what it was in the year 2000. Our exports will thus be cheaper. But we don’t manufacture much anymore (military and some other things aside). Like Venezuela, ...

My background is in natural resources. I have a master of science degree in forest resources protection from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. As the fall camping season is now coming to a close, I’ve decided to put my growing concerns over a worsening climate into a ...

Transgender Day of Remembrance occurs annually on Nov. 20, a day to memorialize those who have been killed or murdered as a result of transphobia (hatred or fear of transgender and gender non-conforming/non-binary people). We also remember those who died because of suicide. This day serves to ...

I observe protests in town, see calls to protest on social media and I have friends who participate in protests. I’m not happy with the way things are going in this country under our current administration but the problem is not our neighbors (the audience for the local protests). The ...

When you mention “true artificial superintelligence,” do you mean AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? This is orders of magnitude harder to do than any AI that exists today. Rudimentary, non-learning “AI” has been around for centuries. A toilet, a fuse, the front door lock and an ...