The Trump administration has announced plans to eliminate government arts funding. This is my defense of public support for the arts that ran in the March ISSUE magazine.

libertyreduced

Inspired by “Magna Britannia, her colonies reduc’d” by Benjamin Franklin

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Published by andycoughlan2014

Andy Coughlan was born in Brighton, England, and has lived in Texas for 30 years. He is an artist, journalist, playwright, director, actor, cartoonist and educator. He is editor of ISSUE, an award-winning arts magazine. Andy's blog, "English with a bit of Texas" has been named best independent blog for the past two years by the Press Club of Southeast Texas. His play, "A Single Drop," was named audience choice best play at the 8x10 Play Festival.

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