The Michigan Legislature is working on the '09-'10 budget earnestly this week. Tomorrow features a meeting of the House Appropriations Subcommitee on History, Arts & Libraries. Chair Shanelle Jackson said some great things a month ago when testimony was offered. It will be interesting -- instructive -- to see what the Subcommittee does, given a huge revenue shortfall, in its action on a budget bill.
Michigan is remaking itself, painfully, and some budget decisions this week that have made the headlines include reductions in college scholarship programs. Some criticize this step as "eating our seed corn."
Our heritage is precious, and the State has a role to play in a new public-private partnership to reinvent how Michigan history is preserved and promoted. What will happen tomorrow morning.......?
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