Facing a $5 billion deficit in next year's state budget, the folks in Springfield are in a cost-cutting frame of mind. No cows will be sacred. Both the governor's office and Legislature will be sorely tempted to slash state funding--especially of what they'll term the "non-essentials."

This report relies on material originally published in the 2002 report, Policy Partners: Making the Case for State Investments in Culture, prepared by Chris Dwyer and Susan Frankel of RMC Research. Policy Partners was the outcome of a year-long feasibility study supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The goal of the study was to identify mechanisms, ideas and practices that could advance state-level cultural policy, especially those policies that augment public resources for culture.

One of the most interesting policy issues to appear on the political landscape over the past several years is the debate over warning labels on records and tapes. The issue of warning labels is a fascinating study of First Amendment freedom that has focused public opinion around two very different and often conflicting policy options. The first option is what Ithiel de Sola Pool terms a policy of freedom, one that places the emphasis on the rights of the individual over the rights of the state. The second option is what could be termed a policy of justified control, one that emphasizes the...

Joint hearings on House Joint Resolution 639, a bill to authorize the President to call a White House Conference on the Humanities; held in Dallas, Texas, November 14, 1977; New York City, December 16, 1977; Los Angeles, California, January 3, 1978; Berkeley, California, January 4, 1978; Miami, Florida, January 9, 1978; Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1978; Washington, D.C., January 23, 1978; and Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978. Bill calls for a national conference to be held in 1979 to focus attention on the major issues and humanities policy in the U.S. The purpose of the...

Joint hearings on House Joint Resolution 600, a bill to authorize the President to call a White House Conference on the Arts; held in Dallas, Texas, November 15, 1977; New York City, December 17, 1977; Los Angeles, California, January 3, 1978; Berkeley, California, January 4, 1978; Miami, Florida, January 9, 1978; Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1978; South Bend, Indiana, January 14, 1978; Washington, D.C., January 23, 1978; and Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978. Bill calls for a national conference to be held in 1979 to focus attention on the major issues and arts policy in the U.S....

Included in this pamphlet are arts and cultural affairs laws of New York State.