Link to Oil City Derrick article, "Libraries escape budget cuts -- for now".Excerpt: Public libraries and a host of other venues from parks to museums escaped a financial scalping earlier in the week with the defeat of Senate Bill 850 in the Pennsylvania House.
The measure, drawn up by the GOP-controlled state Senate, was equivalent to a 2009-2010 state budget proposal. Voting almost exclusively along party lines, the Democrat-controlled House tossed out the bill.
However, the state's financial woes are far from over and subsequent House and Senate bills to fund a new state budget are expected to again run rough-shod over a wide range of public projects and facilities.
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