Point: The Pittsburgh Opera should not honor Governor Tom Corbett and his wife, because as governor, he’s cut funding that ultimately hurts the arts.
I always found solace in knowing that, despite the governor’s efforts to strip the state’s education system of everything that has any value to developing young minds, people could still seek out and enrich themselves in the great arts programs that our many communities provide. Despite the destruction that our governor has brought down, there were still good people and institutions out there that could pick up the slack. Now I see that there is one less. Shame, shame, shame. A joint lifetime achievement award for art and education should factor in the recipient’s whole lives’ impact on art and education in the state…not just how it has benefited the opera in a few short years.
–Ty Best
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