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		<title>Amendment Passes, More Money for the BPL!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amendment #737 has cleared the house. If it makes it through the senate, the BPL will get $.359 per capita for the Library of Last Recourse line item. This should be close to what the BPL projected overall from the state for the year but does not include other state sources. So we will see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peopleofboston.org/home/2011/04/amendment-passes-more-money-for-the-bpl/</link>
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		<title>Good news in this year&#8217;s Mass. Budget!  Help us get more!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Abbs April 21 at 6:42pm The Commonwealth&#8217;s House Ways and Means Budget came out last week and it has the potential to increase funding to the Boston Public Library and other libraries in the state with your support! Currently Reps. Michael Moran, Byron Rushing, Kevin Honan, Nick Collins, and Aaron Michlewitz have an amendment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peopleofboston.org/home/2011/04/good-news-in-this-years-mass-budget-help-us-get-more/</link>
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		<title>Letters to the Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of responses to the Globe were printed on the web today, start with Maria Rodrigues and follow the links to the others.]]></description>
		<link>http://peopleofboston.org/home/2011/04/letters-to-the-editor/</link>
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		<title>A Wayland Reader&#8217;s Suggestion About Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A call to be creative and keep the library open on Sundays from a Globe reader in Wayland. I know of 10 letters that were sent in by Boston residents, including my own that corrected factual errors and false assumptions in the op-ed from last week.  It will be interesting to see if the Globe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peopleofboston.org/home/2011/04/a-wayland-readers-suggestion-about-sunday/</link>
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		<title>Latest Boston Globe Editorial about Sunday Closings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe came out with an editorial today against Sunday closings and in favor of re-negotiating Union contracts to include a work-week structure for some employees that includes Sunday as a &#8220;regular&#8221; day instead of over-time.  Last year the Globe&#8217;s editorial board was in favor of closing branches, which they call for again in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peopleofboston.org/home/2011/03/latest-boston-globe-editorial-about-sunday-closings/</link>
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		<title>Latest Boston Globe Article About Closing on Sundays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe has published a piece on the impact of closing Copley on Sundays.  It is a horrible thing, but they do not make a very effective case using two out-of-town college students. The ending almost seems like they want closing branches permanently is better than temporarily closing Copley for 135 hours next year.]]></description>
		<link>http://peopleofboston.org/home/2011/03/latest-boston-globe-article-about-closing-on-sundays/</link>
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		<title>Response to Mayor Menino&#8217;s Early 2011 Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Response to Mayor Thomas Menino’s Latest Unfortunate Comments We have been fearing another shot at closures since last June and this week the Mayor confirmed our fears (http://bit.ly/ehWuFe). Despite much progress in the organization and management of the BPL and assurances from the BPL administration that they would not try to close branches again, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peopleofboston.org/home/2011/02/response-to-mayor-meninos-early-2011-comments/</link>
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		<title>Libraries in Danger Everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now we are aware that we are not the only ones in danger.  Below are some stories that have been forwarded to us that details the problem all over the world.  Thanks to the many contributors &#8230; keep them coming! Problems just up the road in Arlington NPR on the threat in the United [...]]]></description>
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