A Miami landmark is in trouble and is asking for a bailout!

In the Miami Herald today, there is an article about the Miami Children Museum asking for a bailout from the city of Miami. They are asking for a 400,000 dollar loan in order to take care of loan obligations. There have been regular donors that have cut back support to the museum and that hurts the museum because they are a non-profit organization and have been open since September of 2003. City officials are saying that they may rescue the museum with funds from the federal stimulus bill championed by President Obama. But will President Obama help save the Musuem because there is also Jungle Island, who are neighbors of the Museum on Watson Island, asking for a bailout as well. The difference is that Jungle Island is a profitted organization and they do not have a charter school to maintain like the Miami Children's Museum does. The Herald said that Kelly Penton, a spokeswoman for the city of Miami, wrote in an e-mail that the city ''is looking into the possibility'' of using stimulus dollars to help the museum. Even though people are still going to the museum and doing filedtrips and parties, the donations that the museum use to get has decreased to 40 percent. If a landmark such as the Miami Children's Musuem closes, where will the children go to learn and have fun? It's going to be up to the city of Miami and President Barack Obama to decide if the museum is a place worth saving. I, for one, can say have being a visitor, volunteer, and former employee that the Miami Children's Museum is a educational and fun place that every child and adult in South Florida should visit. It's a place where everyone can be a kid again and learn something new as well. Hopefully the institution gets saved with the bailout.