Owner Mary Koles on Her Gratitude When I first started running learning centers in July of 2009, there was this refreshing complexity I’d never felt in my life. I went from a vortex of cyclical exhaustion—double-fisting coffee every morning and breaking up fights teaching high school English—to this HUGE range…

Banned Books Week is more important than ever Why the fervid school board meetings and protests at public libraries? Why the angry parents shouting; why the grim politicians demanding action? Are they protesting the increase in school shootings? No, there is a different agenda brewing. Banned Books Week 2023 starts…