Comments on: Somewhere Near Salinas, Lord… http://listics.com/200412302417 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Fri, 26 Oct 2024 19:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: fp http://listics.com/200412302417#comment-47966 fp Sun, 02 Jan 2024 15:46:43 +0000 http://listics.com/200412302417#comment-47966 Prop 13 knocked the negotiating room out from under a lot of communities over the years. By the time we left Berkeley public library service had been seriously reduced, and that was really all due to Reagan era dubious market reforms... nothing to do with more recent rapacious Republicanism. Prop 13 knocked the negotiating room out from under a lot of communities over the years. By the time we left Berkeley public library service had been seriously reduced, and that was really all due to Reagan era dubious market reforms… nothing to do with more recent rapacious Republicanism.

]]> By: liz http://listics.com/200412302417#comment-47965 liz Sun, 02 Jan 2024 07:49:07 +0000 http://listics.com/200412302417#comment-47965 I've been listening to Janis for the first time in years, cause the boys gave me a boxed set. Oh my goodness, how that woman could suffer. Salinas is no longer a market town, really, although that's still part of the action. I wonder if bad municipal managment is at work--I don't think any other CA municpality has had to close all the libraries (although there have been cutbacks). I think the accellerating, and unmanageable, benefit burden is part of the deal. I mean, the benefit/cost ratio, especially of health insurance, has been a miserable trend for all--business and government. I predict citizens in the street with torches and pitchforks in the next year. I’ve been listening to Janis for the first time in years, cause the boys gave me a boxed set. Oh my goodness, how that woman could suffer.

Salinas is no longer a market town, really, although that’s still part of the action. I wonder if bad municipal managment is at work–I don’t think any other CA municpality has had to close all the libraries (although there have been cutbacks).

I think the accellerating, and unmanageable, benefit burden is part of the deal. I mean, the benefit/cost ratio, especially of health insurance, has been a miserable trend for all–business and government. I predict citizens in the street with torches and pitchforks in the next year.

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