Ah, it's Fall again. Dead leaves are falling. The heat is no where close to subsiding. Snowbirds are jamming roads again. And city governments are deciding which amenities to slash and whose jobs to cut.
Right now, the most-buzzed about fights are happening in the beach communities. Treasure Island is withdrawing its funding from the Gulf Beaches Library System. Families will now have to pay $100 to borrow books from Pinellas County libraries. Clearwater has also passed a budget that slashed library funding (among other things).
But Stephen Sarnoff and the Communications Workers of America Local 3179 are not letting Clearwater's budget cuts go without a fight. Today, they'll rally at Clearwater City Hall. The full release is after the jump:
This article appears in Sep 17-23, 2008.