When the bare-bones budget state lawmakers put together this week reaches Gov. Sam Brownback he is expected to kill the Kansas Arts Commission and do his best to kill public radio in Kansas.
These will not be fiscal decisions. Together, they don’t amount to a handful of loose change in a $14 billion budget. They are, instead, expressions of disdain for the arts and of political opposition to NPR.
Brownback says the arts commission — Kansas will be the only state in the union without one — will be replaced by a non-government foundation dependent on private…
Brownback aims at arts and NPR: state will suffer
