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10-22-12: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

On October 17, WYPR's Tom Hall interviewed Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as part of the city's annual cultural town hall meeting. One of the main topics was how to find sources of funding when the economy is in bad shape. Mayor Rawlings-Blake said the city does what it can--but that other institutions are imporant to maintaining these projects.

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10-22-12: City Hall, at an Arts Town Hall

The conversation went on longer than the 15 minutes we were able to broadcast--you can listen to the rest of Tom's conversation with the Mayor below (approximately 16 minutes in length). Meanwhile, before the Mayor spoke, Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research and Policy at the national non-profit Americans for the Arts, spoke about the money the arts can bring TO a city. His full speech is also below (22 minutes).