salaries for school board members who defy the ban on mask mandates, even as the state suffers from a surge ofhospitalizations and deaths and gives teachers the right to carry guns in schools, which someteachers have characterized as misguided But not everyone sees the situation the same way. We’ve always been fighting an uphill battle against the countries that emit the most greenhouse gases yet want to maintain business as usual.“If equity’s in, then we’re out,” “She has that very straight-talking, no-nonsense thing about her but she's also very friendly. She's very competitive.”