The arts are aching.

• Position: Stateline

With budgets hurting as much as they are around the country, almost everyone feels the pain. And the arts, representing only 0.063 percent of state general fund budgets, are very susceptible. Massachusetts' funding dropped the most (excluding line items) at 61 percent; Colorado's dropped 46 percent. Nationally, state arts budgets dropped from $408.6 million in FY 2002 to $353.9...