Are you sure you want this fight? At Tuesday’s meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council, the majority voted in favor of establishing a parent-guardian committee to review the “sex content” of […]
Opinion: What will the Teamsters have to say?
Library proposals advance at council despite opposition
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune A controversial proposal to issue a “request for proposals” for the operation of Huntington Beach’s library system by private companies won approval Tuesday night on a 4-3 […]
Libraries the focus of two agenda items on Tuesday
Two agenda items affecting the city’s library system are on the agenda for next Tuesday’s meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council. First will be a request for the council to authorize […]
Opinion: A new era of judging a book by its partisan cover
Of all the institutions I was involved with in my youth growing up in Orange County, the one that never disappointed or caused me grief was the local library. We lived about […]
Budget spares library cutbacks
Huntington Beach is one of the few cities in Orange County with its own public library system featuring a landmark main building in the scenic Central Park and four branches. Faced with […]
Throwing the book at libraries
“Maybe you should try reading books instead of burning them,” said Sean Connery in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” Now, I’m not comparing what’s going on in Huntington Beach with Depression-era […]
