by Michael Beyea Reagan | Jun 19, 2026 | budgets, education, education funding, Government Shutdown, Op-Ed, Pennsylvania, Republicans, Schools, Wall Street
In school districts from Pennsylvania to Illinois, Kentucky to West Virginia, state and local budget delays are putting the pinch on classrooms and costing districts tens of millions of dollars in additional borrowing fees — money going straight to Wall Street. In effect, political failures like budget delays, faulty tax software programs, or just political impasses are forcing some of the…
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by Kelly Hayes | Dec 3, 2025 | Brandon Johnson, Budget, budget cuts, budgets, Chicago, defunding, defunding libraries, Fascism, libraries, Library, Op-Ed, Policing, Zohran Mamdani
We are living through a coordinated assault on knowledge. In a moment when Big Tech is waging war on complex thought, a fascist government is targeting higher education, and the media landscape is being demolished by the same oligarchs driving this era of smash-and-grab politics, libraries are under-appreciated outposts of struggle, sharing and survival. They are sites of refuge…
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