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Government Affairs Committee Action Item Friday

Fri, Feb 2, 2017
by Drew McManus
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If your organization has a government affairs board committee (spoiler: it should) it has no shortage of action items to address. Here are few that should be on your radar. One item of note comes from a recent Opera America email urging members to contact their members of congress to “share stories about how the
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An Update On The White House Petitions To Save The NEA/NEH

Mon, Feb 2, 2017
by Drew McManus
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Since last week’s post pointing out potential problems with the White House petitions requesting that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) not properly registering signatures, it seems that some registrations are being recorded (h/t Brian Wise). As of Sunday afternoon (2/5/17), one petition has 65,239 signatures
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Did You Sign The White House Petition To Save The NEA/NEH? If So, They May Not Have Counted Your Vote

Tue, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
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According to an article by Christopher Hooton in the 1/23/17 edition of The Independent and later expanded on by Jillian Steinhauer in an article at Hyperallergic.com, petitions requesting that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) at the WEthePEOPLE White House petition site are not properly registering
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Brace For Impact: The Fight To Maintain Net Neutrality Heats Up (Again)

Thu, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
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After dodging a bullet in 2014 over net neutrality (details), it looks like incoming fire is on the horizon thanks to the Trump Administration’s decision to install a forceful critic of net neutrality as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). If proposing to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts wasn’t enough,
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Plans To Eliminate NEA & NEH Raises Alarm And Inspire Ire

Tue, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 133
Ever since the news that the Trump administration plans to eliminate the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) became public knowledge, responses from inside and out of the arts community have been swift. There’s a list of reports from mainstream media that examine how much arts and
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