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Residents of Menomonie mounted a successful protest against a huge campus in the city as national resistance to the AI boom grows In the spring of 2025, Sydney Brennan was riding high. The 22-year-old was finishing college and was a newly elected councilwoman in Menomonie, a city of about 17,000 in the lush plains of n
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Residents of Menomonie mounted a successful protest against a huge campus in the city as national resistance to the AI boom grows In the spring of 2025, Sydney Brennan was riding high. The 22-year-old was finishing college and was a newly elected councilwoman in Menomonie, a city of about 17,000 in the lush plains of n
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