How times have changed!  Years ago, my pre-school age kids taught themselves how to read, write, count, and many other things by watching Big Bird and his friends on Sesame Street on the local PBS channel.  Now, in some circles, PBS is viewed, among other things, as an expensive luxury not worthy of the miniscule subsidy it gets from Uncle Sam.

Kids who grew up in Southwestern Pennsylvania during the 1950s and beyond also had the benefit of watching Mr. Rogers, whose children’s show was a mainstay of the Pittsburgh, PA PBS channel.  I wonder what Fred Rogers, were he still with us, would have to say about the potential loss of federal funding for PBS?