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What's bad is all these
What's bad is all these libraries being closed right now. Libraries should never have closed for circulation. Especially with schools closed, kids need library books more than ever.
Are you saying library staffs are immune to covid-19
Refugee - Are you saying library staffs are immune to covid-19? Library buildings are closed but their services remains open. Many library employees are parents, some are elderly and there some that suffer from health conditions. Like every institution Mayor did Right by closing it. Their online service is great, it’s working for me and they are also providing free hard copy books for those that don't like ebooks.
https://www.bpl.org/news/books-for-boston-new-books-for-those-in-need/
Some people only consider how
Some people only consider how they are inconvenienced and are oblivious to how people who work with the public during a pandemic may be impacted. I have younger family relations who worked at walmart during the worst of the virus outbreak and they said they couldn't believe how rude the shoppers were to them and their co-workers.
Are you saying library staffs
Those are 100% your words not mine. If I had to describe it, the library staff are no more / no less immune to COVID-19 than the people working at CVS and Costco, which remained open through the shutdown. And, distancing at a library is relatively easy.
Essential Workers
Knowledge is power. If anyone is essential librarians are.
Unfortunately, closing
Unfortunately, closing library branches to in-person use was necessary.
With shopping and T spaces unavailable, more of the homeless would have ended up there for lack of other daytime places to go. Youth would have ended up there with the schools closed - remember that Library staff had to put their collective foot down with elected officials, reminding them that they are not day camps.
Maybe the Library Board was
Maybe the Library Board was against the name because Dudley was a possible slave holder and he was swapped out for name of an area that still traffics in slavery. Those library types tend to be pretty literal that way.
Honestly I still do not understand why it was not named after an actual person or a region that has not been involved in the slave trade in the past five minutes. There are so many options to choose from.
The new name also refers to a
The new name also refers to a store that used to be in Dudley and was important to many in the neighborhood, A Nubian Notion.
https://www.baystatebanner.com/2016/04/20/a-nubian-notion-to-close-doors/
So BPL wants to rename the library
after the neighborhood instead of using the irrelevant name that was implemented even though the majority of the City's residents REJECTED in a vote.
Glad to see we don't have more pressing issues to face that we can waste time and resources on nonsense like this.
Am I to assume that you'd
Am I to assume that you'd like the city to stop responding to 311 calls about rats, because they're small potatoes next to the looming massive budget shortfall and we should only pay attention to the One Thing Roadman Thinks Is Most Important?
And I can tell from your tone that you plan to hold on to this "majority of the city REJECTED" thing for as long as you can, even though a majority of the neighborhood itself supported it. Godspeed.
The neighborhood voted for it
The neighborhood voted in favor of it. Marty even said before the ballot that he would be paying attention to the neighborhood vote not the citywide vote. Who cares what the people who live in West Roxbury and never visit Dudley/Nubian Square think anyway?