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Santa Ana has only one full-service public library to serve over 330,000 residents. Marytza Rubio writes there are no general interest bookstores in her city — compared to over 50 bars and liquor stores, 20 marijuana dispensaries, and at least 4 fancy sneaker shops.
Santa Ana’s main public library will be closed for two weeks starting Monday August 12, as staff refurbish the library’s ground floor to make library patrons easier to monitor.
Geoff Leamon’s first vinyl album was “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Now he owns his own shop and is introducing a new generation to vinyl.
Gerardo Mouet, Santa Ana’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services director, talks about how his department has rolled with the budget punches in recent years and reinvented itself.
The blog’s publisher had wondered whether he was being
censored.
The library’s web filter blocks the left-wing blog that has been
critical of the city while allowing access to other political
blogs.