As a fan of American Experience, the Ken Burns baseball series, and other programs on NPR and PBS, I support efforts to defund those networks in President Trump's budget. This is from The Hill: "The Budget proposes to eliminate Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over a two year period," according to the proposal. "CPB grants represent a small share of the total funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), which primarily rely on private donations to fund their operations," it continues. "To conduct an orderly transition away from Federal funding, the Budget requests $15.5 million in 2019 and $15 million in 2020, which would include funding for personnel costs of $16.2 million, rental costs of $8.9 million; and other costs totaling $5.4 million." In a statement in March 2017 after the first Trump budget proposed the elimination of CPB, the 50-year-old...(Read Full Post)