After one last budget study session, Long Beach City Council adopted a new $3.1 billion city budget Tuesday that keeps Main Library open–at least for a while.
“City officials have said they still plan to close the Main Library eventually, opening a temporary site in the meantime and building a new library later,” Paul Eakins writes, [...]

Literary superhero Ray Bradbury stands up for threatened Main Library, as the vote to keep it open approaches
With a number of our public officials warming to the notion of keeping Main Library open until real, actual plans can be made for its demise, famed science fiction author Ray Bradbury made what could have been a [...]