Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 3/31/18

At The News & Observer’s Community Voices forum last week on “Bridging North Carolina’s urban-rural divide,” a librarian came forward during the question-and-answer period. She told the forum’s panel how budget cuts have forced libraries to reduce their hours and further limited rural residents’ access to the internet and librarians who can steer them to good sources of information. It was a brief but telling exchange about unintended consequences. Republicans, who control the state legislature. think they’re helping rural North Carolinians ...

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