As Montgomery’s politicians and Excel wizards enter the new year focused on unforgiving budget math, the county’s readers are learning more about what ongoing library cuts mean for their local branches and daily routines.
In Bethesda, shrinking spending means not renewing a bipartisan and demographically diverse list of periodicals next year. The Nation and Weekly Standard are out. Car and Driver? Town and Country? Gone. Also among the titles to be discontinued: Runner’s World and Bicycling, Entrepreneur and Fast Company, Nature and the Journal of the American Medical Association.