Right now, Congress is considering cutting or eliminating public media funding. Those dollars are what pay for lifesaving emergency alerts for wildfires, floods and tornadoes.
“For eight years I was Colorado’s treasurer and chief financial officer. I was a conservative guardian for taxpayer money," said former Colorado state treasurer Walker Stapleton. " Public media funding is less than 1/100th of 1% of the federal budget. That is 0.0001%.”
Communities like Lamar, Rangely and Sterling rely on public media as a primary and sometimes only source of local news and information they can count on. Being responsible with our tax dollars is something we can all agree on but we need to be smart about the impacts of these changes.
Visit ProtectMyPublicMedia.org today to show your support for public media.
