Most funding for the Wisconsin Arts Board is on Governor Walker’s budget-chopping block.So is the Poet Laureate commission.Arts-advocates say they understand cuts have to be made in tough times…but that nearly eliminating their work is a “false economy.”Patty Murray reports.
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