Last July, Republicans in Congress eliminated federal funding for public broadcasting, cutting support to roughly 1,500 local radio and television stations across the country. Among them was West Marin’s KWMR, which lost a quarter of its operating budget overnight. One year later, the station is once more on solid ground, after it raised $100,000 in an end-of-year appeal and upwards of $150,000 in its spring pledge drive. “We have been supported by the community in…