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We are members of our local radio station in Austin, KUT. Looks like they will be fine. But we wonder if we can donate to CPB in an effort to support the many stations that will be harmed but the cut backs.

I live in Virginia. My local PBS station is WETA. I have been reading about how the recent congressional funding cuts will impact ALL of public broadcasting. I am prepared to contribute a reasonable amount of money to help make up the congressional shortfall. If I contribute to the CPB, how and to whom might my contribution be disbursed? As an example, WETA has a well funded market area. Alaska has a much less well funded region. Many of the areas of the U.S. served by CPB are financially poor. Unfortunately for them they are the MAGAts who voted for the administration that is in the process of depriving them of educational television opportunities. Please tell me how I can contribute a fairly substantial amount of money ($1,000?) to support the CPB mission and where my money might end up. Thank you. I await your response. Paul B*****r

Since the Moronic Senate and House recinding of Federal funding for CPB, I have been wondering how to "Best" help fill the shortfall. While I do support the individual stations that I both watch and listen to, that leaves out a vast number of stations that I do not know about. Is there a donation funding mechanism that will allow me to support CPB and therefore the CPB then supports the vast PBS, NPR and Independent stations that rely on the CPB for portions of their funding? I am especially interested in supporting the music royalties that each station must pay for nearly unlimited music programing. Please reply to p**********v@yahoo.com or cell fone 304-6XX-XXXX. Thanks, Kindly, Paul

Hi, I'm a lifelong supporter of my local PBS and NPR outlets and now live in St. Louis. During these tough times, is there a way to pool resources to help outlets most in need, which are most likely rural and tribal areas? My stations are doing fundraising drives and I have a hard time giving to them when their percentage of government funding is very low. I think every big market should help smaller markets instead of every outlet fighting to survive on their own. There has to be away to keep smaller markets alive and every big outlet should do their part. Thanks, H**h S***e St. Louis, MO

I ABSOLUTLY LOVE PBS radio and TV. I trust PBS more than any other network to get the truth! And since I have much physical pain and need to lay down during the day to get relief from some of that pain. I find Molly of Denali soothing and commercial free! so, I tape that show and when i lay down, I pull up one of the recorded Molly of Denali shows( because even though I am now 79 years old , I do learn a thing or 2 from watching it.) One thing that really disturbs me is the segment that PBS did on Molly's dad having a bat in the attic and it was flying around his head he was swatting with his hand at it and Molly was making pictures of it and grandma was even coming and capturing it in a little box with holes in it. Being a country girl and knowing that bats carry Rabies, I tk you should do a segment on how dangerous bats are to even be around and how only professional "critter catchers" should only be close to them and definitely a bat is flying around near a person they should NOT be swatting their hands around the bat! A few years back, after I had a close encounter with a bat bite on my ear, my doctor* who grew up on a farm said," I don't even want to be near one , let alone even be in the room where one has been!" * fortunately my medical doctor who was about 50 at the time, and did know how dangerous they were and sent me to the hospital to get the staff at the emergency room to follow the CDC guideline for treating me for rabies exposure. Most frustrating to me was when I got to the emergency room for those treatments , the 30-40 yr old emergency room doctors were clueless about the dangers. I told them " it landed on my ear and I through I got bit" They looked at my ear and said they could not see a bite. But because I had worked with the TN State Health Dept. and knew that because their teeth are so fine, that one could be bit on the toe while sleeping and not even know it! Finally ,after much back and forth between my doctor and emergency room dr.s and State Health Dept people the young medical staff at the hospital began to administer the correct time bound protocol of treatment for me! So, Molly and her dad should get out of the attic and let professional remove the bat. Bats should not be killed because they eat millions of mosquitos and some bats even pollinate food. But the younger generation need to know that while that are mammals and might be consider "cute" they can be dangerous to be close too. ---- another critique is how much advertising you are doing to the young people about how much more and more cartoons they can watch off an NPR app. I though that "people in the know" are now concerned about how young people are getting to much screen time /blue light and not interacting enough with other humans-especially extended family like grandma and not enough physical exercise. Please consider my suggestion. I know your funding is probably going to be cut by the "chain saw" crew !@@#$%! and while I don't have much money I intend soon to start contributing more than I usually do to PBS radio!

CPB is and always has been a parasite who has been sucking off our federal tax dollars for decades while delivering nothing less than biased, activist propaganda. I have been hoping that NPR and PBS would lose their funding for as long as I've been aware of culture and politics. Good riddance and I have nothing but wishes of bad luck and ill will for anyone involved in your enterprise in the future.

I wish to object to the federal government desiring to cut off funding for PBS. PBS provides amazing and informative programs for the general public. While I understand the need to reduce government spending, stopping aid for PBS is not a wise decision.

Please protect PBS Digital Studios.