Ron French writes: “Voters in Alpena County [Michigan] on August 6 approved a tax to keep its public library open, despite a campaign to defund it [and county commissioners’ efforts to fire library board members] over children and teen books with sexual themes. An operating millage, necessary to keep the library open, passed with 59% of the vote. The same day, 54% of residents in Dickinson County in the Upper Peninsula approved a millage to continue funding their local library, despite a campaign to defeat it because of children’s books some deemed inappropriate.”