Editor: Certain events come around like clockwork from year to year. To name a few: Thanksgiving dinners and Christmas tree decorating and Fourth of July fireworks and the slow transformation of summer into fall. They are tuned to the...
Having run their previous excuse – public health – into the ground, Arlington leaders now have a new reason they can’t reopen libraries to any semblance of normalcy.
The current rationalization? In the words of the 1950s one-hit musical wonder...
Editor: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM focused occupations have above-average growth and wages. And the librarian at your school is ready to help.
Your school librarian has an abundance of books and online databases to...
Arlington officials say it is no longer public-health concerns, but budget issues, that are keeping most of the county’s libraries locked up tight.
And it’s likely most of them will stay that way for months to come.
“Community health metrics are...
Editor: As the Arlington County Board considers delaying Glencarlyn Library’s reopening until July 2022, the Glencarlyn Citizens’ Association (GCA) contend the reasons to reopen the library now are more compelling than ever, and a comprehensive view of Glencarlyn Library...
It’s still going to be weeks, maybe months, since my category (Group 1c, sub-section 9, for those playing along at home) gets its turn in the vaccination conga line.
But being the go-along-to-get-along kind of guy that I am, I...
Even molasses eventually gets where it’s going, and the otiose return to service of Arlington’s library system has taken a small step forward this week.
(For those library lovers of a literary bent, “otiose” means “leisurely.” But we digress.)
County officials...
If Arlington government officials are expecting us to shout “hallelujah!” and praise them to the hilt for their too-little, much-too-late library-system reopening, they should, by now, know us better than that. We come not to praise Caesar, but to...
