The facility proposed for Moe Road marked a successful turnaround for the library's Board of Trustees, which last year saw the sometimes stingy district reject a 68,000-square-foot facility.The new library will be 55,000 square feet. The "old library" was only built in 1980 and extended to its current 18,600 square feet in 1990. The population of Clifton Park is about 33,000. How big a library does a town need? How often should tax-payers be called upon to pony up for a new library?
These questions never enter Mr. Yusko's mind. All he sees is an electorate that needed to be told "try again" when the new library proposal was rejected the first time.
Yusko's swipe at the people of Clifton Park is so common in journalism on both sides of the Atlantic. Not only is Yusko putting in his own opinion, unnecessarily, but he's doing so in a snide way. I really wish the people of Clifton Park would boycott the Times Union.
