As the city approaches its annual budget talks, the city’s leading arts funding agency is asking for more than their usual allotment.
Paige Pfleger
Paige Pfleger covers the music industry, arts and culture for WPLN News. Previously she has worked in Central Ohio at WOSU News, covering criminal justice and the addiction crisis, and was named Ohio's reporter of the year by the Associated Press in 2019. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.
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