Newspaper Editorial from North Carolina: “New Libraries Cannot Be Casualties of Senate Tax Game”
From an Editorial Published Today in the Winston-Salem Journal:
Forsyth County library supporters have walked a long, hard road in their efforts to replace outmoded and aged-out libraries. Now some county commissioners are suggesting a further delay may be necessary if the state Senate’s new tax plan becomes law.
This is too much. The library projects need to be finished with no further delay.
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Now the commissioners say that if the state legislature changes the sales-tax-revenue distribution formula, as it’s trying to do, they may have to consider holding off on library construction, the Journal’s Meghann Evans reported last week.
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See Also: “Commissioners Say Sales Tax Plan Could Impact Library Projects” (by Meghann Evans; August 14, 2015)
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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