This is hardly the first financial crisis the world has faced. What kinds of books were coming out fifty or even a hundred years ago to help people get a grasp on economic concepts during times of uncertainty? There are thousands of titles, and you can find the names of many at The Wall Street [...]
NewsHour’s Patchwork Nation reported earlier this year on Laredo, Texas’s lone bookstore shutting down. Libraries are now also feeling the pinch of recent municipal cutbacks around the country. In Florida, state funding for libraries was just cut entirely, and in other states, like California, fines are increasing and opening hours are shortening. Libraries closing mean [...]
Last week, the Houston Chronicle reported that the final bookstore in Laredo is slated to close. But readers in the small South Texas city are trying to come to its rescue with a web site to try to save the store. Laredo is a Patchwork Nation “Immigration Nation” community, with a large Latino population and [...]
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