Above is the headline, unedited, in today’s LA Weekly in which Patrick Range McDonald cites the devastating choices of LA’s mayor and city council in carrying out “an unprecedented, and punishing, raid on the libraries.”
The article goes on: Last spring he convinced the City Council to close the city’s central and eight regional libraries on Sundays, then slashed $22 million from the 2010-11 budget and closed all 73 libraries on Mondays beginning July 19. Library officials say as many as 15,000 youths — plus an untold number of adults — have been turned away every closed day this summer.
Unlike the angry City Council in New York, which successfully fought a large library budget cut proposed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti and 4th District City Councilman Tom LaBonge, chairman of the council’s Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee, quickly caved on Villaraigosa’s proposed 2010 budget, of which the library cuts were a part.
LA Weekly article. Some interesting commentary from readers too…
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