Article 1WBVZ Douglas County, OR using dirty ballot tricks to finish off the slow murder of its libraries

Douglas County, OR using dirty ballot tricks to finish off the slow murder of its libraries

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Cory Doctorow
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For years, the Douglas County commissioners have reduced the budget of the county's 11 libraries, serving 100,000 residents, and they've vowed to zero out its budget next year, so the library's supporters got a ballot initiative to create a Special Library District that would keep the doors open -- naturally, the county has removed all mention of the initiative from its website, using dirty tricks to finish off its dirty work. (more")

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