Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Sam Brownback
Guam has one. So do Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and every one of the 50 states. But soon Kansas won’t have one…that being a state arts commission.
Under Republican Governor Sam Brownback, Kansas will become the only state in the country not to have an agency dedicated to promoting the arts. The conservative Brownback insists the move is entirely fiscal, and based on the fact that state spending needs to be trimmed.
But by eliminating the $574,000 budget for the Kansas Arts Commission, Brownback will cause a negative ripple effect that will result in the state losing, not saving, money.
Killing the commission means Kansas will lose $778,300 in funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and $437,767 in funding from the Mid-America Arts Alliance.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Under Brownback, Kansas Will Be Only State Without Arts Commission (by Sarah Smarsh, Huffington Post)
Arts Organizations Feel Sting of Budget Knife (by Jan Biles, Topeka Capital-Journal)
Sen. Brownback Leads Fight against Human-Animal Hybrids
(by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov
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