BLOOMBERG.COM: ARTS BAN IN STIMULUS BILL IS STUPID ECONOMICS
Submitted by admin on February 17, 2009
Commentary by James S. Russell:
A few saplings are sprouting above the rusting hulk of the High Line, an abandoned, elevated railway that once rolled meat to the butchers on the West Side of Manhattan.
A brand-new park will flourish here soon. It’s the final greening of a derelict area whose transformation began with an art gallery in the late 1980s.
If you want bang for taxpayer’s buck, build parks and fund the arts.
Yet both may have been banned from the $789 billion federal stimulus bill that nears passage by the House and Senate. Read More.