Bookworms to feel bite

Bob Cox sent on This One from NC where a tight budget means libraries across the state aren\’t getting their May and June state payments that total more than $2 million.


Strapped for cash, the state is withholding $2.1 million in payments statewide, a 15 percent cut of the annual allotment. It compounds earlier reductions of 7 percent, bringing total state cuts this fiscal year to $3.2 million, said Brenda Follmer, spokeswoman for the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.

May 15, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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