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Librarian Demotions: Not Merely Unfair

by Barry D. Liss on February 27th, 2008 • 6 Comments »

What are we to make of the demotion of the 3 librarians at the Marathon County Public Library?  Good business?  Solid fiscal prudence?  Oh, I don’t think so.  It’s shoddy and negligent – embarrassing to the whole community.  What happened here?  Nothing less than an outrageous incursion of a corporate value structure poorly overlayed on top of a public good.  It’s unfair and I call rot nihilism.  Had people in positions of power acted with greater prudence, this lament would be unnecessary.

The quotes by those sitting atop the hierarchy strike me as doubly wretched in that they render forth two …

Economy, Marathon County Library, Wausau, Work

Granite or Jewel?

by Barry D. Liss on January 19th, 2008 • 32 Comments »

Had I not lived it – I would never have believed it. This my friends is a break-out year for Granite Peak. They made it happen up there on the hill. I have been skiing a lot this year, especially with my eldest son, and the snow on the hill is fantastic. I’m not a Midwest punk when it comes to skiing. Before I took a job here I was a grad student at the University of Colorado at Boulder for seven years. My wife and I had season passes to mountains big and …

Attractions, Granite Peak, Parks, Recreation, Snow, Sports, Wausau