GoggleWorks' Goes Artless In Defense Of Arts Funding

Pennsylvania's heading into the fourth month without a state budget. And there is still no written bill to be voted on.

[damian]

Let's see...take a lot of heat because you realize we're all angry that we have no budget yet...claim to have struck an agreement to come up with a budget that will "work"....go about actually figuring out how you will make what you agreed to happen (should've happened before the agreement part)...waste more time and give wisps of false hope to agencies who are desperately strapped for cash, citizens, whose jobs are hanging by a thread that frays a little more everyday, and keep the heat off the bozo's who should've got their damn job done in the first place and we wouldn't need to still sweat the future of our state.

Economic revitalization helped to make Tamaqua vibrant again, thanks to tax free zones and other programs, but apparently now Argall's memory fails him, when it comes to the Arts in Pennsylvania.

[Ron Heckman]

If they can close the libraries they can and should not fund Google Works....Get the money from Lee C. Olsen who claims to be the man behind Google Works....He also is contributing to the continual fast demise of Reading and is unamerican.....thinks the taking of people's homes and ignoring usa law is ok.....If Google works wants to exist they should exist on their own like any other business or venture.....this is the american way......

[gee wiz]

The Goggleworks is not leading to a revitalization of Reading's downtown, it's barely inside the border of Reading. You can't even see downtown Reading from the place. It's a place where the rich folks from Wyomissing can go and say they went into the city without going more than a block and a half from the Penn Street bridge. I'd like to see a true accounting of the viability of the place.

[for the arts]

i think they should cut labelle's pay completely and see how long she remained 'concerned' about the community.

most of the budget goes into her pockets.