Road Work: Should State Prioritize ‘Horse Boobs’ or Highways? – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Road Work: Should State Prioritize ‘Horse Boobs’ or Highways? – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"As Michigan debates funding for road repairs, policymakers should examine every corner of the state budget for savings and use them on higher priorities. 
...Michigan’s $9 million General Fund appropriation provides grants to a variety of projects around the state, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
...Should we subsidize the showing of movies like “Horse Boobs” or fix the roads?
...The state’s funding plan also includes grants for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra ($123,000) and White Lotus Farms ($5,625) for garden poetry readings. 
...In previous years, films shown at the festival included titles like last year’s Horse Boobs, “America’s Biggest *ick,” above, the animated short, “I am the Blueberry,” as well as what critics might define as the “absurdist” “Anal Masturbation and Object Loss ” and Crispen Glover’s “What Is It?”,,,
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