two years later, the school board seats were filled in a nonpartisan election while the Legislature figured out a new system.

Filling seats on education boards varies from state to state. Colorado, for instance, has partisan school board elections for seven of its board members. Four of the 11 seats in Nevada—one from each congressional district—are won in nonpartisan races, while the remaining seats are appointments from various officials or bodies. In Wyoming, 10 of the 13 members are directly appointed to six-year terms by the governor.

During the 2016 legislative session, lawmakers presented SB78 as a way to winnow the candidate field. Sen. Ann Millner, R-Ogden, who sponsored the bill, pointed to a glut of 19 candidates from one district who were all eyeing the school board that year.

"Thatworking hours is a bit extreme. In
my time in Japan, I noticed two distinct rush hours on the trains and
expressways in major Japanese cities: one around 8-9am, and another around
5-6pm. That seems like a pretty normal working day to me. If everyone was
putting in 8 hours of overtime, the evening rush hour would start a lot later.
(And it's not like the employees are going home and continuing to work for
many more hours. Remote work is not common in Japan.)

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mattnumbe
I agree about the rush hour on the trains in the cities. I also live in a
large city in Japan and have to battle to get on the train around 8am and
6:30pm. The guys that are working all the over time tend to work in the really
big name companies (Toyota,