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Rob, Your counterpoint is understood, and apprecia...

2008-06-17T22:00:00.000-04:00

Rob,

Your counterpoint is understood, and appreciated. It's always good to keep oneself in balance, and anyone who might recognize who both John Paul Jones and Bob Hartman are can't be all bad. :)

I'm happy to forward you the original, or a high res scan of the printed copy.

Amazingly enough, yes, the internet era geek has a periodical or two around the house.

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aarongillum@yahoo.com

As far as the building itself goes, Aaron, I don't...

2008-06-17T21:21:00.000-04:00

As far as the building itself goes, Aaron, I don't think that the availability of information on the internet impacts the argument. If the county paid too much for the land or the building, that's a stewardship issue, not an information issue.

As far as the availability of information goes, yes, information is available on the internet, but not all of it. Much that is of cultural, educational or historical importance is not available on the internet, yet. Much is available for purchase online or at bookstores, but let's not forget that the library is here as a guarantee that even the poorest among us can better ourselves.

Finally, I clicked on the link to re-read your article--and saw that the Enquirer had pulled it from its free online access status. I'll have to pay $2.95 to read it now...unless I go to my library's web site and access it for free through one of the databases (proprietary) that they provide for the public.

I believe the delivery was perhaps mis-stated in t...

2008-06-17T20:05:00.000-04:00

I believe the delivery was perhaps mis-stated in the article.

It was also very edited from it's original form (as the enqurier frequently does with my writing).

The orginal argument made a clear point of the county wasting millions of dollars on a lavish facility when they can't afford to staff their cleaning crews. Your Boone County tax base (yes those rich Northern Kentucky evil elitists) probably have a computer at home if not two. Basically, if you have a child in elementery school in Boone County, you'd better - it's expected. Suffice to say, you've probably got a cell phone if you have a kid in school - god knows you can't drop little Jimmy off without talking on it while driving...

The county could have easily purchased substantially less prominent land, made tax base revenue on the prime real estate they occupy now, and built an equivalent facility or refurbished a historical building in old Burlington to house this. Instead they opted for guitar hero, copper domes, and free DVD movies.

The facts are that this is a mis-use of the publics trust, and simply a monument built by the current county administration to themselves. It's as simple as pushing a few keys on my $100 sony phone to get access to a fairly large international data repository....why do we need this monstosity when so many other projects go unfunded.

- Aaron Gillum