Letter: Libraries are so yesterday and offer little community value
Let’s get real about the proposed new library. It will do nothing for downtown development and will not serve the twenty-first century needs of our community. I grew up in Indianapolis, went to college in Cincinnati, and lived and worked in San Diego, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. All have monstrous downtown libraries none of which slowed or prevented the decay of their downtowns. My brother, an activist Cincinnati developer for such
controversial efforts as stadiums and light rail, sees little community value to downtown libraries.
Cheyenne, often cited as an example for us to follow, is struggling to find ways to keep funding their boondoggle. If our project is such a good idea, where is the once included surrounding private development? Having lived and worked many places, I am tired of rich elitists taking from the poor to fund extravagant monuments to themselves. Why don’t they use their money? They seem to have plenty spending over $100,000 promoting CC #1’s regressive tax that burdens us but not them.
The proposed library is unneeded, archaic and so yesterday. Don’t let them fool you into thinking otherwise. There is more to Carson City than downtown. Caring and responsible grandparents know when to say no. Say no to CC #1 and yes to Dennis Johnson and Jim Shirk.
Richard Schneider
Carson City