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Cigarette tax is lighting up financially strapped arts groups
Jump to full article: Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer, 2008-04-20
Author: Karen Sandstrom Plain Dealer Reporter
Intro: some local arts groups report they're faring reasonably well. That's thanks in large part to Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for arts and culture, which supporters credit as a crucial stabilizer for tough times.
"I cannot tell you how fantastic [the cigarette tax] has been for us," said Jill Snyder, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. It was one of 67 arts and cultural organizations that qualified to receive grants for general operations this year and the next two years. MOCA will receive about $155,000 in each of those years.
Kevin Moore, managing director of the Cleveland Play House, echoed Snyder's enthusiasm for the tax. The theater's cigarette-tax allocation will be $495,000 a year in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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