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	<title>Louisiana Partnership for Arts Advocacy &#38; Louisiana Partnership for the Arts</title>
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		<title>Thank You!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fiscal year your 115,000 emails captured the legislators’ attention and, through our work with House and Senate leadership, we were able to restore $1,065,000 in arts funding to the state budget during this past session.  But, we’re still facing a 65% cut to Statewide Arts Grants and a 13% cut to Decentralized Arts Funding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Last, A Small Victory For Arts Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the close of the session yesterday afternoon, the House passed HB76, an amendment to the budget that appropriates ancillary funds. The LPAA was able to get the following funds reinstated in this bill: 1. $750,000 was added back to Decentralized Arts Funding, putting total funding at $2,194,557. 2. $250,000 was added back to Statewide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUR VERY LAST CHANCE: TODAY&#8217;S AMENDMENT BILL ON THE FLOOR!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s happening: Legislators will return to the capitol TODAY, Monday, June 21 for a special session in which they discuss HB 76, an amendment to the budget to provide ancillary funding for expenses. We have been told that this could be a way to get funding back. AT PRESENT WE ARE NOT IN THIS AMENDMENT. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A BLACK DAY FOR CULTURE IN LOUISIANA&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.AND ONE FINAL CHANCE TO MAKE IT RIGHT! What has happened: HB 1, our state budget, passed through House and Senate on Friday, and the Cultural Economy has not fared well: 1. Decentralized Arts Funding has been cut from $2.5 million in the last fiscal year to $1.4 million for the coming year. This represents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Alert to the Cultural Community of Louisiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current executive budget directly targeted State Arts Funding with an initial $2.4 million or 50% cut to both State Arts Grants and Decentralized Arts Funding. The remaining funds are barely adequate to maintain programs on life-support. We must ask our legislators to restore a minimum of 75% of the proposed cuts to the budget. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alert to the Cultural Community of Louisiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Severe funding cuts proposed! Urge House Appropriations Committee to Reinstate Decentralized Arts Funding and Statewide Arts Grants Funding. Please take 3 minutes to contact Committee Members NOW. What’s happening? Both the Decentralized Arts Funding Program (DAF) and Statewide Arts Grants (SAG) have been targeted with deep and crippling cuts. The Executive Budget presented in February [...]]]></description>
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