Libraries illustrate crunch

Enough good news for one day, now back to your regularly scheduled doom and gloom… The Pasco PL in St. Petersburg,FL has To Deal With property tax cuts by buying fewer books, magazines and CDs. Even snowbirds will feel the pinch: The out-of-town newspapers they peruse in the reading room will be gone — they’ll have to surf the Internet instead.

That’s all part of the library system’s cost-cutting plan as county government looks for ways to fulfill the state-ordered property tax cuts.