Connecticut Wiped Off New England Map

So Radio Boston simply accepted “Discover New England” as a legitimate site worthy of charging CT taxpayers $100k rather than raising the possibility that the DNE organization was simply extorting funds from troubled New England states.

Was a sufficient level of research asking someone, “Do sites like Discover New England draw visitors?”

It costs $10.00 to register a domain like DNE. Anyone can make a site look like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with $100 of stock photos. Your job is to show me why the clicks on DNE’s site are worth $100k.

Pathetic.

But Steve, Connecticut didn’t cut $100k from their tourism budget. They cut $4,299,999 — basically the entire budget — with the disappearance from the DNE map being just one, visible (almost comically so), consequence. You may have a valid point about the DNE itself, but clearly this is a much larger problem we’re talking about here. The idea is that states put money into tourism because they *should* be getting much more back, in visitor dollars to state businesses, etc. And if they’ve decided it’s no longer worth the money up front, that means many people aren’t traveling on sight-seeing excursions for fun or edification anymore, because they don’t have it in the family budget, because perhaps they don’t have jobs. So it’s a very sad sign.