Editorial: Slashing funds for public broadcasting hurts rural areas. (Kansas City Star, 2/20/2011)
Excerpt: Consider the High Plains region, an area of dwindling population and resources, though still a vital piece of America’s agricultural scene. In that area, which includes rural Kansas, High Plains Public Radio is as much a part of the landscape as the limitless horizon and brilliant night sky.
But, unlike national programs that would lose perhaps 5 percent of their funding if Congress and Kansas ended their subsidies, High Plains would lose 35 percent of its total funding — 20 percent from Kansas and 15 percent from Washington.
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