Take me out to the library

Turns out businesses were having to cough up too much funding for the already publicly financed DC baseball stadium, so they had to cut the $45 million for the library system. If there's one thing we know in DC, it's priorities!

"Even when I first heard that there might be this one-time windfall for the library, I felt that I just entered the twilight zone," said Philip Pannell, a member of the D.C. Public Library's board of trustees since 1996. "The fact that it has not become a reality doesn't really surprise me."