“I have a lot of conservative friends,” the owner of my hotel tells me. “Not like, MAGA, but they just want the country to function properly.” That does not include an urgent switch to electric, which she suggested is part of a broader push from environmentalists to make kids think the “world is ending in 10 years.”
“The first one we got was a no-brainer,” says Superintendent Daniel Pacos. “But when we got $7.9 million in grant money to get 20 more, that’s when the concerns started coming out. People wanted to give the money back, like they heard other districts were doing, for political reasons.”