Kids are growing up in a world where every imaginable - and unimaginable - topic is readily available by search on a computer or smartphone. And if these activists think library censorship is shielding young people from mature or risqué topics, they’re fooling themselves. Such efforts to censor or restrict books must be deeply frustrating for librarians, who specialize in creating judgment-free spaces for people to read, explore and learn. Book banning is about fearmongering and control over what other people are allowed to think. Of course no one has complained about being harmed by a library book. “I’ve never, not once, had anyone come up to me and say, ‘You know what, my child’s life was ruined because of a book they checked out from the library,’” Richardson said in the latest installment of The Times’ Hear Me Out video series based on letters sent by readers. That was too much for Barbara Richardson, who was a children’s librarian for the city’s public library for 32 years until she retired in 2020. The book censorship movement came to Huntington Beach over the summer, with the City Council voting to adopt a system that would rate certain books as obscene or inappropriate and ban anyone under 18 from accessing them without parental permission. Most of the targeted books were written by or about a person of color or a member of the LGBTQ community. That was a 20% increase over the same period in 2022, which had the highest number of challenges since the association began tracking censorship attempts 20 years ago. tracked efforts to censor more than 1,900 books. In the first nine months of the year, the American Library Assn. Public and school libraries are increasingly being targeted by conservative and “parental rights” groups that want to remove or restrict access to books they deem obscene or dangerous to young minds. These are difficult days for America’s librarians, who’ve been dragged into the latest culture war battle - book bans. I’m Kerry Cavanaugh, assistant editorial page editor, filling in this week for Paul Thornton. The expanded scheme will require 6km of embankments, 1km of flood walls, a replacement bridge over the Owenass at the Four Roads junction, 200m of localised road raising, and an estimated 10.5Ha (26 acres) of land purchases.Good morning. It was later expanded in size which has delayed its expected completion by at least three years, after the impacts of Storms Ciara, Denis and Jorge in early 2020. It is four years since the last public information day, when three options were put on display in the MDA Mountmellick for the public to give their views.īack then the scheme was promised to be completed by December 2023. It is a long haul to get the flood defences built, with the cost more than doubling from the initial €3.2 million budget announced in 2018. However Mr Barrett said that the time and venue would be confirmed closer to the date. The event is expected to take place from 3pm to 8pm, with representatives there from JBA Consultants who drew up the plans, and Laois County Council. It is understood locally that the day will be held in the MDA building in Irishtown, which itself was flooded back in 2017, with children rescued from the creche through deep water in the arms of staff and firefighters. "At the information day, the preferred option for the scheme will be presented to the public," he told the Leinster Express / Laois Live. Laois County Council is holding the public information day for everyone to view the updated Mountmellick Flood Relief Scheme on Tuesday, September 12.Įngineer Adrian Barrett is overseeing the scheme. I understand it will cost over €7 million, partly due to price hikes," he told the Leinster Express / Laois Live. Maybe in a way the delay was positive in that sense. "It is a bigger scheme than first planned as we had flooding since 2017. He welcomes them and says that the plan has been enlarged and is now expected to cost some €7 million. Local Cllr Paddy Bracken wsa among six in the Mountmellick Borris-in-Ossory Municipal District who got a private preview of the new plans. It was caused by multiple rivers including the Owenass burst their banks and merging outside the town after heavy rains, resulting in the worst flood in living memory.įlood walls and embankments are still not built, but an updated design will be revealed to the public in an open day. The flood wreaked damage to nearly 100 homes and businesses and eventually shut down the N80 national road through the town.
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