Federal Government Funding Eight New Wichita Police Officers • KWCH News • October 15th, 2010

The federal government has given the City of Wichita a .6 million grant to fund the recruitment, training & retention of eight new Wichita Police Department officers.

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How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20 Public Funding of the Arts | Panel 1 Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics www.newschool.edu www.veralistcenter.org On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts to consider “general standards of decency and respect” in awarding grants, the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School collaborate on two panel discussions and a video interview project evaluating censorship and arts funding today. Prominent artists, non-profit arts organization directors, art dealers, and founders of alternative spaces examine issues related to how the introduction of the decency clause in particular, and the culture wars in general, have affected funding, free speech and self-censorship, and how attitudes towards notions of decency and respect for the values and beliefs of the American public have changed over the past twenty years. The programs have been generously supported by the CrossCurrents Foundation. Survival vs. Autonomy Public Funding of the Arts, Free Speech and Self Censorship Have arts organizations modified their programming in the aftermath of the culture wars? What alternative funding sources and strategies have they had to employ? How does the commercial market relate to the issue of decency and community standards? What is the future of government funding for arts institutions and

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