A thoughtful, positive editorial from The Plain Dealer. If you can’t use the link, go to Cleveland.com and search for “Ohio Legislature Logic”.
A thoughtful, positive editorial from The Plain Dealer. If you can’t use the link, go to Cleveland.com and search for “Ohio Legislature Logic”.Ohio legislature ‘logic’:
‘Nice libraries; let’s get ’em’
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Thomas Suddes
Plain Dealer Columnist
From downtown Cleveland to deepest Appalachia, Ohio’s public libraries are the envy of the United States. But on the apparent theory that there’s no failure like success, the General Assembly, with Gov. Bob Taft’s connivance, is poised to choke library funding.
Ask anyone who moves out of Ohio, especially parents: One of the first things they miss, besides grandparents left behind, are the fantastic libraries – treasure-houses for children, people’s universities for adults, workshops for the very brand of “by-the-bootstraps” self-improvement Ohio’s Republicans say they want to promote.
Heads they win, tails we lose
And they suggested we charge rental fees for videos.
Which would not only reduce circulation (in turn reducing funding?) but determine where we place our materials budget (most popular) put us in direct competition with C*(kbusters and Co, who would complain about our unfair subsidy.
Reducing everything in our society to market forces does not work for everything, unless, of course it is MY invisible hand picking your pockets. Then it works great for me.
The wingnut mantra: “cut my taxes, buy your own books, I buy mine, it’s all on the internets anyway.”
Bring on the class war.
well…
What we need are some long-term numbers.
Where were there good libraries that got cut, and what happened to their economies?
If nothing else, you can use this as a study fodder.
Like they’re doing with the firearms ban.
— Ender, Duke_of_URL