ONE school board member, Mike Compton, said Kane wins the support of the governor, Legislature and the school board. The public's inability to get at the stacks wasn't viewed as a minus by the board. Every hour a public library remains open is an hour of success. Therefore, every hour it is closed is an hour of failure. Someone must be responsible for both the good and bad.
Public libraries are America's gift to the philosophy of open government and democracy.
Hawaii's shuttered and barred libraries mock every library card holder in the state. Richard Borreca reports on Hawaii's politics on Wednesday.