Comments on: Budget Woes: Century Library Could Be Closed; Molino Might Never Open

By: chris1

chris1 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:26:00 +0000

Locals .Stop buying lottery tickets, Harley’s, bass boats, 4 wheelers, 89999 inch plasma TVs,junk food ,etc,etc, and open your own library.
Stop waiting on the govt.

By: Avis

Avis — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:26:19 +0000

Books are very expensive to print, publish, ship, maintain, etc. Internet is much more cost effective and easier to find anything you want to read. Huge grandiose libraries are a waste of scarce assets to serve only a few people at most. Those that are still standing and collecting dust should be declared as historical landmarks and have a huge wifi router placed on top.

By: HBM:)

HBM:) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:17:20 +0000

@SOUTHERNER not all people can AFFORD to buy their own books! That is why so many people are THANKFUL for ALL the library branches!!! It’s good that YOU can afford to buy books from stores but I’m just sayin that not EVERYONE has all the extra spending money to go out and buy books from a store! Just paperback books alone are about $15.00, and hardback books range from $15.00 and up, and that’s just in our local WALMARTS which is just about the cheapest place to buy them.

By: Dishearted

Dishearted — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:07:07 +0000

Has anyone thought about the 1cent local option sales TAX, that is what paid for the Citys new fire Houses and Librarys. but know matter what it will never be enough, with the leaders we have in office. and what about all the ROADS that the 1 cent hike in taxes was supposed to pay for. the COUNTY just needs another bucket of MONEY to throw away,at our expence…

By: Concerned Century Resident

Concerned Century Resident — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:45:19 +0000

@ southerner, what happens to the children who’s parents don’t have the money to go and buy the books every time they have a book report due or to say the least JUST WANT TO READ. I don’t know if you have bought a book lately, but they are not cheap even down to the paperbacks. I guess you don’t get to your local “public library” very much because there are morte things to do than checkout books. They have programs for the children, movies, and they also have computers to use. They can help you sign up for social security, or even help with unemployment, and the unemplyment line is where these workers will be if we as citizens of “Escambia County” don’t do something.

By: AvidReader

AvidReader — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:32:10 +0000

LivinMolino,
Books are not on “the way out.” at least not from my point of view and the point of views of many of my friends.

By: Southerner

Southerner — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:10:40 +0000

There should be no “public library” paid for with taxpayer money. Buy your own books.

By: yue hue

yue hue — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:11:23 +0000

We could have used money use to build the boat ramp on the perdido river.Our county is working like the Obama administration, spend until we’re broke and then raise taxes.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:55:12 +0000

@ Lady Please dont encourage your friends and neighbors to come to Alabama..They will pay income tax they will pay sales tax on groceries. They may want a bottle of liquor for a celebration and will go to a state owned store to buy that also. They will destroy their vehicles on unkept roads not to mention all the litter thrown out the windows as they drive from point a to point b. We can not have a Lottery we can not have Bingo without harrassment from Montgomery. I could go on and on but I am sure you are getting the picture.

By: Lady

Lady — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:21:18 +0000

First of all the North end of Escambia County has always gotten the shaft. Now we have to drive half-way to Pensacola to buy car tags, drivers license and all other license when we had a nice building in Century but what did they do, closed it completely down. They could have kept it open 1-2 days each week with two people on staff but no they keep as tax official in office drawing a tremdous salary and also drawing retirement. Check this out and we are closing all facilities in the North end. They built all the PUBLIC OFFICE, COURT SYSTEM as far south as possible on very expensive property when they could have put all of it on 9-mile road where the old airfield was and the North end would not have to drive ALL THE WAY DOWNTOWN WITH NO PARKING FACILITIES THAT ARE FREE. Several candidates have run for office in North end and I don’t mean Molino-Cantonment area but further north in years past to try to stop some of this but they made the county lines for voting reaching past 9-mile road so you don’t have enough our people to get a voice on the county commission. We are taxed to death on our homes,our land, insurance just to say we live in the great STATE OF FLORIDA. I tell all the younger folks MOVE TO ALABAMA not Florida. I wish I could start over again.