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This is why we pay attention. This is why we #resist. This is why we #perservere. This is my why. What is yours?
July 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is why we pay attention. This is why we #resist. This is why we #perservere. This is my why. What is yours?
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July 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Ohio economists: Cutting library funding will reduce ‘human capital,’ hurt the economy
“Public libraries are essential infrastructure in every American community, and that especially is so during times of economic uncertainty”
by Marty Schladen
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/06/o...
“Public libraries are essential infrastructure in every American community, and that especially is so during times of economic uncertainty”
by Marty Schladen
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/06/o...
Ohio economists: Cutting library funding will reduce 'human capital,' hurt the economy • Ohio Capital Journal
A panel of economists overwhelmingly said that if federal and state cuts to public library funding become reality, it will harm "human capital" — knowledge and skill that can be used as an economic re...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Ohio economists: Cutting library funding will reduce ‘human capital,’ hurt the economy
“Public libraries are essential infrastructure in every American community, and that especially is so during times of economic uncertainty”
by Marty Schladen
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/06/o...
“Public libraries are essential infrastructure in every American community, and that especially is so during times of economic uncertainty”
by Marty Schladen
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/05/06/o...
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
March 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
— James Baldwin
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This, from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, has been on my mind today.
![The text of a poem by Clint Smith beginning “When people say ‘we have made it through worse before’[…]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xgs6hum77cpmekyz43ghkyvh/bafkreiatxnrxizkxy7dyhsxfkrd67xsauizdugba7b6zqqitfhv5iwqonq@jpeg)
January 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This, from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, has been on my mind today.
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As we see these images of people crying at the border after the asylum system shut down, it is again worth considering how indescribably desperate a person must feel to travel with their children through the desert, across the water, or through the Darien Gap simply for the *possibility* of safety.
January 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
As we see these images of people crying at the border after the asylum system shut down, it is again worth considering how indescribably desperate a person must feel to travel with their children through the desert, across the water, or through the Darien Gap simply for the *possibility* of safety.
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Libraries matter now more than ever. They stand for the powerful idea that knowledge is free and belongs to everyone. In a time when books and free thought are under threat, we must defend and support our libraries and librarians—they are guardians of access, learning, and freedom.
December 10, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Libraries matter now more than ever. They stand for the powerful idea that knowledge is free and belongs to everyone. In a time when books and free thought are under threat, we must defend and support our libraries and librarians—they are guardians of access, learning, and freedom.