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#skpoli #SaveSKLibraries – Music Monday – “Educated in a small town/Taught the fear of Jesus in a small town/Used to daydream in that small town/Another boring romantic that’s me”

There’s a hierarchy in rural Saskatchewan… First, you lose the hospital. The grain elevators close and are replaced by an inland terminal in a bigger town down the line. You used to have a handful of churches and soon you’re down to two or one or maybe even none. The local school closes and the kids […]

Does Don Morgan Want You To Go To A Tax Lawyer For Your Divorce? #skpoli #SaveSKLibraries

The Honourable Don Morgan QC has said that combining public libraries and school libraries could be part of the solution to the drastic funding cuts imposed on Saskatchewan public libraries in the recent budget. But Mr. Morgan must know that, just as all lawyers are not the same, all libraries are also not the […]

¶ Posted 02 April 2017 § Internet § Library § List § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, saskatchewan

Friday Fun Link – How Much $$$ Does Your Library Save You? #skpoli #saveSKLibraries #LibrariesMatter

Many public libraries have added a Value Calculator to their web site as an advocacy tool to show patrons, politicians and other interested parties just how much value they’re getting for their tax dollars. (A few systems in Saskatchewan have also enabled a feature in our province-wide circulation system that prints out “Today You Saved $xx.xx” […]

¶ Posted 31 March 2017 § FridayFunLink § Library § News § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Librarian Says “Too Many MLAs” The Sequel! #skpoli #saveSKLibraries #yqr #yxe

So, yesterday’s post about “MLA says Saskatchewan has too many libraries. Librarian says Saskatchewan has too many MLAs” has become my most viewed post of all-time. Within 24 hours, it’s blown away my previous record holder which, ironically, was about a random encounter I had with Brad Wall, soon after he axed the Film Tax […]

¶ Posted 29 March 2017 § Infographic § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: economics, education, language, saskatchewan, science

“Sask Has Too Many Libraries” Says MLA. “Sask Has Too Many MLAs” says Librarian. #skpoli #SaveSKLibraries #yqr #yxe

The cut to Saskatchewan’s rural library system is $3.5 million dollars. The cost of the three unnecessary MLAs added by the Sask Party before the last provincial election is $750,000 and the NDP actually ran on a platform of cutting those three plus three more which would save the province $1.5 million dollars per year. Hmm, […]

¶ Posted 28 March 2017 § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (11) ° Tagged: economics, education, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Libraries gave us power/Then work came and made us free/What price now for a shallow piece of dignity” #SaveSKLibraries

From a comment in SongMeanings.com… the song is about working class perception and how everyone thinks ‘we dont talk about love, we only wanna get drunk’ whereas in reality the working class can be intelligent and useful, a lot of writers musicians actors sports people etc come from a working class background. ‘libraries gave us […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2017 § Library § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § PopCulture § UK § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: economics, education, language, music

What’s Something The Average American Doesn’t Understand About Being Poor?

How expensive it is.

¶ Posted 21 March 2017 § Jobs § Politics § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, food, health

Music Monday – “And they get terribly upset/When you question their sacred texts/Written by woman-hating epileptics/Their languages just serve to confuse them/Their confusion somehow makes them more sure”

I’d heard of Father John Misty before but didn’t know much about him. But I was pretty impressed with the second song he did on Saturday Night Live this past weekend – sort of reminds me of the first time I heard Bright Eyes sing “Landlocked Blues” on some late night CBC show. https://youtu.be/gNwDxl4diyI “Pure […]