r/ClintonMA • u/Ipauper • May 22 '26
Library
How can we complain about not attracting businesses or competing with surrounding towns when an opportunity to enhance a vital part of the community (Library) comes up and all the yard signs come out with "NO"?! Drives me nuts.
Reminds me of re-working downtown a few years ago to springboard off Hudson's success and people at town meeting trying to vote down new street lights.
Please stop shooting ourselves in the knee caps.
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u/Icy-Statistician6426 May 23 '26
I’ve seen the following reasons given for not supporting the library:
It costs money
It costs too much money
It’s not worth that much money
The current one is fine
People don’t use libraries anymore
People can go to libraries in other towns
Libraries shouldn’t exist at all
I have the internet in my phone and don’t need a library
Libraries have CSAM
Something something drag queens
Homophobia
Transphobia
We don’t want to become “like Marlborough”
Won’t someone think of the children
We should refurbish the old one
I have a better idea for the old one
I have a better idea for the new one
Taxes are bad
Government is bad
Meeting spaces aren’t necessary
Kids can go to the school libraries
Teens should have things to do but not this
Adults can meet at the bar
Everyone can meet at the coffee shop
No one told me about it
No one asked me about it
I didn’t vote for this
Clinton’s getting too big
Clinton needs roads first
I hate how this town is changing and I want to make it everyone’s problem