HOUSE REPUBS WANT TO KILL SESAME STREET

My five kids could all read before they started school. Every morning we spent time with Sesame Street and Electric Company (where we fell in love with Morgan Freeman's character "Easy Reader") and, when we could, watched Reading Rainbow. We lived in a log house 15 miles outside Harrison, Arkansas (pop. under 10,000) and got very little television reception - no networks, no cable, no satellite - but we DID get PBS via Springfield, Missouri. It was all we watched except for rented videotapes. I assume many others living in rural areas are as dependent today on PBS as we were then.

Now the Republican House wants to eliminate spending for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Goodbye, Big Bird and Elmo. Goodbye, commercial-free educational programming.