By KRISTIE LINDEN
About $70 million in funding for public libraries is being held up in Harrisburg by state legislators in the House and Senate wrestling over language in the bills to release the cash. Appropriations for public libraries, which are funded as a line item within the state’s education budget, and other line items are part of a state budget signed into law by Gov. Josh Shapiro in August. However, several of those appropriations can’t be released until legislators pass bills that include specific language — what that language should be is the source of partisan divide and will likely delay needed funds from reaching area libraries on time.
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