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Costa Mesa earmarked a slice of cannabis tax revenue for the arts. Where is it going?

  • Bias Rating

    2% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    18% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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28% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "Currenlty, the tax revenue coming in is not sufficient to basically fund the arts master plan, so the council has been supplementing additional funds from the general fund to help offset that," he said.
49% : Some saw the tax earmark as a shot in the arm for local arts, including Costa Mesa Mayor John Stephens, who helped draft the recommendation as part of a council-appointed cannabis ad hoc committee.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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