Earlier this evening, members of Buffalo’s cultural community dominated an hour-long public hearing of Buffalo Common Council. The cultural funding advocates, responding to a city budget that includes no funding for the arts, echoed and in many cases built upon the eloquent arguments of last year’s Erie County cultural funding crisis.

By Colin Dabkowski, The Gusto Blog (The Buffalo News), May 14, 2012 – 10:07 PM

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