Week of Sept. 21, 2022

From the editor’s desk

Grant Denton, who founded the Karma Box Project to connect homeless people with necessities, has some new projects to help the city’s unsheltered population, Janice Hoke reports.

Reporter Jesse Stone checked the University of Nevada, Reno’s USDA files in the wake of a report about “inhumane treatment” of animals at Wolf Pack Meats and found problems noted in previous inspection reports.

An education advocate and a college professor are facing off for the open Northern Nevada seat on the Nevada Board of Regents. We take a look at their positions on several issues.

Any fan of science fiction movies knows what eventually happens when artificial intelligence thinks for itself. A group of local religious leaders told reporter Lynn Lazaro that programmers should insert ethics in algorithms before a Skynet-type computer decides humans aren’t really needed on this planet after all. That’s easier said than done, scientists say.

Speaking of movies, reviewer Bob Grimm opines that Mia Goth delivers one of the year’s most powerful performances and “creates an all-time-great cinematic psycho” with “Pearl,” a prequel to “X” from horror maestro Ti West.

I’ll see you in the funny papers,

—Frank X. Mullen, Editor