It wasn’t exactly “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” the 1975 New York Daily News headline after President Gerald Ford rejected a bailout for New York City, but it wasn’t exactly a warm fuzzy warning, either.
We’re referring to state Sen. Bo Watson’s frank comment to grant recipients Wednesday about the potential discontinuing of such handouts next year if state funds are insufficient.
And that begs the question: How much are such organizations relying on government funds?
(IN THE NEWS: ‘Critical’ state grants for Hamilton County museums could end)
We wouldn’t want the Chattanooga area to be without a single recipient of the grants, which totaled more than $500,000: Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, Creative Discovery Museum, Harrison Bay State Park, Houston Museum of Decorative Arts, Hunter Museum of American Art, International Towing & Recovery Museum, Soddy Daisy-Montlake Historical Association and Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.