I won't start ranting about it because I just get myself worked up, but quickly: I literally can not think of an investment of public funds that has a higher return than *cleaning the indoor air in schools*. It's so easy, so cheap, & has such HUGE payoff. Criminal that we basically don't do it.

I’ve just learned (knew but forgot maybe) that the original design from France was supposed to include broken chains in her left hand, not a book. Chains remain but at her feet, not visible to most.