1/28/2003
killing the library III
The Tallahassee Dem calls plans to close the Florida State Library "brazenly bad."
Gov. Jeb Bush must be rescued from this latest in his series of audacious ideas -to wipe out the state's award-winning library in the R.A. Gray Building and turn some 55 library employees out on their ears and into a very poor job market for their profession in order to save $5.4 million in his crimped budget. Refers to the governor as "Neutron Jeb."
The Pensacola News Journal uses an image from Raiders of the Lost Arc to make its point:
In the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the powerful Ark is effectively disarmed through the ultimate bureaucratic solution: it is crated up and stuck on an anonymous shelf deep in the bowels of a humongus government warehouse, presumably never to be seen again. Gov. Jeb Bush seems to have something of the same in mind for the State Library and the archives it contains. It's the wrong approach.
Gov. Jeb Bush must be rescued from this latest in his series of audacious ideas -to wipe out the state's award-winning library in the R.A. Gray Building and turn some 55 library employees out on their ears and into a very poor job market for their profession in order to save $5.4 million in his crimped budget. Refers to the governor as "Neutron Jeb."
The Pensacola News Journal uses an image from Raiders of the Lost Arc to make its point:
In the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the powerful Ark is effectively disarmed through the ultimate bureaucratic solution: it is crated up and stuck on an anonymous shelf deep in the bowels of a humongus government warehouse, presumably never to be seen again. Gov. Jeb Bush seems to have something of the same in mind for the State Library and the archives it contains. It's the wrong approach.
