Probably many people on the list remember this petition on the cultural
agencies from last year -- the trouble with the internet is stuff
circulates forever!

Here's how it turned out:  The Supreme Court struck a compromise that
nobody liked (probably wise) and Congress (to everybody's surprise) took
a resounding vote in favor of the NEA, so the cultural agencies have
survived for another day.  In fact, in the end PBS got a fairly big
increase.  Generally, the expectation for this year is that things will
be much calmer.  Let's hope so, anyway.

If people want to urge members of Congress to support the federal
cultural agencies, that would be fine, but it's probably best not to
refer back to the issues raised in the petition, since they're out of
date.

Andy Finch
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American Association of Museums