March 2023

YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan. heuer@fortstockton pioneer.

The Pecos County Commissioner’s Court heard an update on the status of the Lancium facility at its Feb. 27 meeting, and discussed amendments to the Chapter 381 Economic Development Agreement between the company and the county. The 110-acre, 325-megawatt campus is located just northwest of Fort Stockton off the Pecos Highway and is billed as a large-scale flexible data center that is home to bitcoin mining hosting, as well as other applications.

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GUEST COLUMNIST It’s at once amazing and troublesome. I speak of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence application that was launched last November by OpenAI.

Dear Editor, I believe most of us Americans have had enough. The Social Security Act we imposed on us by President Franklin D.

GUEST COLUMNIST Washington is full of groups that claim to represent the interests of the American people. Some have lots of members, which makes them formidable actors in the ongoing effort to craft public policy.

Last week we spoke about the season of Lent that we are in as a “not quite yet” time in preparation for the new life we celebrate at its culmination in Easter. A part of this “not quite yet” time and turning towards God and loving him and our neighbor, involves forgiveness.