News-Gazette Editor and Columnist Uses Urbana Library as Example of Illinois as a Place "Where Good Government Goes to Die"

Ouch!

Urbana Free Library

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Excerpt (bullet points added):  In the last few months, for example,

• our governor ordered that state legislators not be paid because he didn't like what they hadn't done; 
• the Urbana Free Library mistakenly removed more than 9,000 books from its shelves, packed them up and sent them away, only to request they be returned; 
• a local mass transit district that never provided mass transit service finally went out of business after collecting taxes for seven years; 
• and it was discovered that a member of a local housing authority board was never appointed to it although she has been serving for four years.

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