By: Michael H C McDowell

Michael H C McDowell — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:59:56 +0000

Well, said, John: “Last week, Governor Wes Moore included in his Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Reconciliation and Financing Bill, a provision to end the Arts Stabilization law. In doing so, he puts at risk the work not just of the Kent Cultural Alliance here in Maryland’s smallest and most rural county, but the work of every county arts council and every nonprofit arts organization in our state. By killing this law, Moore puts the arts, which have enjoyed decades of strong bipartisan support from Governors Glendenning, Ehrlich, O’Malley, and Hogan, as well as from both sides of the aisle in the Maryland State House, at risk to prevailing national trends.” I am taken aback by this cut by Gov. Moore. There is still time to preserve this. There are other budget choices and this is a tiny part of the state budget. Each Marylander taxpayer contributes only $5.34 cents a year (!), the cost, as you say (so far, under Trump!) of a Big Mac. That’s 1.4 cents a day over a year. Or 10 cents a week! Peanuts. But a major return on investment for our state. Keep up the good work. Small money well deserved and matched by private donors too.

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By: Michael H C McDowell