“Public libraries are under siege”

Charita Goshay - opinion column, "The Canton Repository"

As is always the case with extremism, what began with book bans has now grown to killing the messenger. The American Library Association states that 2022 was a record-breaking year in demands for censoring library books and other material in the 20 years that the group began tracking such cases.

You probably have to be nerd to get it, but there's something about a library.

A building dedicated solely to showcasing knowledge that virtually anyone can have access to may well be one of the greatest ideas we humans have ever concocted.

The world can be found within those walls...

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