LOUIE TODAY: Todd, your library, Wean help and Tim Smith

Louie Free, Vindy.com's news radio partner, will rock 'n rant today with Vindy Editor Todd Franko during their regular Thursday gig, and will get the latest on the potential library funding crisis from Carlton Sears, director of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County.

Also checking in will be Atty. Joel Ratner, who'll give an up to the minute report on The Wean Foundation's work in the Valley, and Julie Michael Smith, wife of will speak publicly for the first time about how life has changed for her and her husband, nationally recognized jewelry designer Tim Smith (of Smith & Co.), who is recovering after being stricken with debilitating bacterial menengitis and a stroke just before Memorial Day.