... All Free Library of Philadelphia Branch, Regional and Central Libraries Closed Effective Close of Business October 2, 2009.
See also Libraries post notice warning of Oct. 2 closing. (Hat tip to Dave Lull for both links.)
Over the weekend the city left phone messages telling people trash collection would become bi-weekly for the same reason. Of course, if the hacks that run the city were at all competent, the city would be, well, not dysfunctional.
The problem is the state budget will not fund Philadelphia programs.
ReplyDeleteWhat does the city do with our city taxes?
Why do people in Shitcreek, PA have to pay for Philadelphia's trash collection and libraries?
It appears that every city service is funded by the state or the federal government.
We need a true two-party system in Philadelphia, as well as nationally.
We need to throw the bums out.
Paul Davis
Well, the city could get its priorities in order. Keep the libraries open, but shut Licenses & Inspections, which never does its job anyway. There are probably plenty more city agencies like L&I.
ReplyDeleteIt works the other way, too. I spend a quarter of the year in a Pennsylvania town that I suppose could be considered a "Shitcreek." The town and county are among the poorest in the state. There is but one small library, open a few hours a day five days a week, in the entire county. It is a heavily used resource. It receives nearly all, if not all, its operating funds from the state and other non-county sources. Indeed, the region receives considerably more money from the state and federal governments than it sends to those entities. Yet you can hear, as I have, patrons of that small library -- which is in peril of losing most of its funding -- complain about the possible loss of the library and of having their tax dollars go elsewhere. Nobody's ever happy.
ReplyDeleteWell, I certainly hope the library near Mildred survives. All the Bobos who visit World's End to commune with nature should cough some cash to help.
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