How great will it be when we have a community bookstore with strong roots in Saint Paul? How great will it be when we all hold a stake in this store to keep it alive and make the big guys irrelevant?
It's ironic that the people who love small indy bookstores are also the people who love public libraries, the primary competitors of those bookstores. There's no constitutional provision for free reading material. The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie built over 2,800 libraries with his own private money. Didn't the taxpayers of Minneapolis just spend $300 million for a new Taj Mahal-like public library? Talk about the "big guys." When we allow government to compete in a marketplace, with all its inherent advantages, the weakest merchants in that marketplace will be pushed out. How can people like the Hungry Mind compete with that? You can't have it both ways.
Dennis Tester Mac-Groveland
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