Blow Up a Library Today

November 21st, 2004

2 quotes from a sad story about the public libraries in Salinas, California, where the public libraries may close for good.

“My feeling is that this city is dying,” said Greg Meyer, a 25-year city maintenance worker who was given a layoff notice in September and will be unemployed in January. “We are opening the gates to urban blight and increased crime. Taking the libraries out of service is like a trumpet blast heralding the coming of our fall.”

In the Monterey Herald: “A town without a library is a town without a conscience,” said Gerald Oehler, president of Prime Care Medical Group in Salinas.”

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