Hertz: Not playing fair in the sandbox
By and large, Lake County’s legislative delegation has minded their business this session and not sponsored some of the wackier bills we’ve seen, such as criminalizing teachers for mentioning sex in the classroom, allowing more selenium in Lake Koocanusa to benefit Canada’s huge open-pit mining conglomerate, Teck Coal, or telling science teachers to only teach “facts,” not theories (a great strategy for undermining the entire scientific process, but not at all helpful when it comes encouraging critical thinking or educating future scientists).
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