National issues can have local effects. Sometimes those effects are bad; sometimes they are good.
A federal crackdown on grants for local organizations that promote nitwittery like “Drag Queen Story Hours” for kids is a good thing. And it’s happening right here in Alaska – well, in Anchorage, anyway. Thanks to the DOGE, the Alaska Humanities Forum has been notified that its federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities has been cut off.
Why? In part because they support drag queens parading around children.
The Alaska Humanities Forum has been informed that its federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities has been terminated. The decision, communicated this week, is part of a shift in federal priorities under the direction of President Donald Trump. The NEH notified state humanities councils and other grantees that their…
