Near a library now vacant, a sports complex will rise

Sunspot.net has a Sad Story on a decision to spend $250,000 to build a family sports complex on in Baltimore, MD. The sports complex will be located three blocks from the old Pimlico branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. That library branch was shut down just weeks ago. The city said it did not have the $290,000 budgeted to keep it open.

\”A library branch that was a community bulwark for 40 years is shut down for lack of money; and, just three blocks away, similar money is approved for a sports center to keep kids\’ bodies occupied while their minds are regarded as afterthoughts.\”