State Baskets Weaved and Quilters Laureate

The governor of Minnesota vetoed the idea of a poet laureate, largely because it would act as a gateway arts position, generating state sacntioned (and no doubt sanctimounious) freakiness like a state mime or a state interpretive dancer. He made no mention of a state kite artist, sound artist or artisinal fashioner of whalebone jewlery. Read all about it here.