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Many Lexington streets have been bumpy for months while Kentucky American Water Co. has worked to replace antiquated cast-iron pipes. Why has this work taken so long, and when can residents expect these streets to be restored and repaved? Our questions for Rob Burton, President, Kentucky American Water Co.

Davis Wertheimer researches Large Language Models (LLMs) at IBM. How does this AI technology work, and what do we need to understand about its limitations? Wertheimer is Arthur Shechet’s latest guest in his series “The AI Revolution: Promises and Peril.”

Sweet Evening Breeze (1895–1983), born James Herndon, was a well-known LGBTQ figure in Lexington, Kentucky, whose gender identity defied categorization at the time — and who wielded extraordinary social and political clout. Literary contributor Tom Eblen learns more in a conversation with Maryjean Wall, author of “She’s the Mother of us All: Sweet Evening Breeze and the Queer Community of Lexington, Kentucky.”

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