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Florida Gov. Rick Scott Vetoes State’s PBS Funding

On May 26, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced he had vetoed nearly $615 million in line items from his state’s budget for the next fiscal year. One of the items vetoed was the nearly $4.8 million that the state normally appropriates for public broadcasting, and the move will force local stations to rely more heavily on private donations. These vetoes come in addition to the nearly $4 billion in cuts that state lawmakers had already approved.

Nat Brown is a former deputy Web editor of Foreign Affairs and a former deputy managing editor of National Review Online.
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