ARTS NEWS: What's Lost Was Won
In case you blinked and missed it, the governor of South Carolina (GOP Governor Nikki Haley) used a line-item veto to erase the state arts commission, but the funding was quickly restored by the legislature.This, and the Kansas story, points out something interesting: state legislatures, even Republican controlled ones, don't want to throw the arts under the bus. That's a small comfort, considering as they're willing…