Last year, swimmers rebelled when the city announced it would close many of its pools the first week of August. This year, the city learned from its error and coughed up the dough necessary to lure enough lifeguards to stay on the job and keep 10 of its 47 pools open until the end of September. While this summer hasn't been as relentless as last year's, we applaud the city's foresight to help make the long hot ones a little more tolerable.
