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Shasta LibrariesInstead of checking out books, you can borrow seeds from the Redding Library starting this month. It鈥檚 part of a new program that will also offer gardening classes. -
Jane Vaughan/JPRIn May, the Klamath County Board of Commissioners decided to cancel a library-sponsored social justice book group over concerns the programming could be perceived as political.
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Klamath County Commissioners have canceled a library-sponsored book group over what some are calling censorship. That decision could have ramifications across the library district鈥檚 programming. -
In April, a graphic novel version of Margaret Atwood鈥檚 dystopian story The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale was pulled from the shelves of North Medford High School after a parent complained about images of nudity, sexual assault, and suicide. -
Douglas County is one of the more broke counties in Western Oregon. It is one of many counties that used to get most of its income from federal timber鈥� -
Libraries in Jackson County are assured of a future, since voters created a countywide library district in an election last year. And now library users鈥� -
Everybody supports kids learning to read. But factions begin to form over how and where. The people who run Josephine Community Libraries hope many people鈥� -
Several parts of our region have voted on whether to fund libraries in recent years. And one of the frequent reasons given for voting no is the idea that鈥� -
What next for libraries in Josephine County? They've already been shut out of the county budget and run as a non-profit for several years. And a recent鈥� -
The property taxes assessed for library operations in Jackson County will be the maximum allowed, 60 cents per thousands dollars of assessed value.鈥�
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Like so many other things, public libraries have become a political football in recent decades, subject to cutting or closing to balance local budgets.鈥�
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The fate of the Jackson County library will go before voters in May.If passed, the proposal for a special tax district would create a property tax up to鈥�
