Who do you trust?
That was the question during a six-hour meeting June 23 of the Emporia Planning Commission, most of which was taken up with a public hearing about a proposed data center.
More than 400 people attended the event at the W.L. White Auditorium, a space known mostly for basketball games and graduation ceremonies. They sat in hard-backed chairs on the hardwood of the basketball court, and those who wanted to speak were given three minutes to address the seven-member commission. When their time was up an electronic buzzer would shriek. I think it was the same buzzer
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