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Muleskinners is cancelled for Friday, Feb 21, 2013 due to the weather.
The March Speakers Schedule
Mar 1: Presiding Commissioner Dan Atwill & Boone County Sheriff Dwayne Carey, “Proposition 1 – a 3/8cents countywide sales tax for 911 and Emergency Management Services: Why it is critical for our community.”
Mar 8: S. David Mitchell, JD, PhD Associate Professor , University of Missouri School of Law “Voter Suppression”
Mar 15: Michael W. Bradley, Associate Circuit Judge, Boone County, Missouri, “Mental Health Court: A Humane approach to the mentally ill and the law.”
Mar 22: Bishop Lorenzo Lawson, Executive Director, Youth Empowerment Zone. “Young People are our Future – Efforts to help at risk youth in our community.”
Mar 29: David A. Leuthold, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Missouri Columbia. “Myanmar, The Spread of Democracy and American Party Politics.”
Program starts around Noon on Fridays
Everyone is welcome!
Columbia Country Club
Old Rte. 63 North at 2210 North Country Club Drive
There is an optional buffet lunch available for $11. Students will receive a discount. If you have questions, please contact Scott Cristal at (573) 999-3871.
Muleskinners is supported, in part, by a small difference between what we pay for the meals and what we charge. However, the main source of funds to Muleskinners is the membership.
Please, consider joining Muleskinners to support the important part we play in maintaining the Democratic social network in Boone County and in continuing to keep Democrats informed and engaged in political dialogue. Membership forms can be found at the Treasurers table when you attend a meeting and the forms run each month in the Boone County Democrat or just visit the web site: http://www.boonecountydems.org/muleskinners/
Muleskinners will not meet Friday February 22nd due to weather.
This Wed, Feb. 20 is the
Boone County Democratic Central Committee Meeting
Roger Wilson Boone County Government Center
Starting promptly at 7 pm
Commission Chambers
801 E. Walnut
Columbia, MO
Open to the Public, Everyone is welcome!!
The meeting date was changed to this Wed due to the second Thursday of the month falling on Valentine’s Day. Next month the meet will again be on the second Thursday of the month.
If you have something you want to add to the agenda, please contact Chair Homer Page at 573-446-0441, email disabilitymedia@centurytel.net, or choose “reply all” and respond to this email.
Please visit the BOCO Democratic website at http://www.boonecountydems.org and the BOCO Democratic Central Committee site at http://www.boonecountydems.org/central-committee/
If you or know someone that is interested in one of the vacant seats on the BOCO Central Committee, please contact Chair Homer Page.
Muleskinners’ Presents
Kelly Hill
Program Coordinator, Heart of Missouri CASA
“Challenges Facing the Foster Care System in Boone County: The role of Court Appointed Special Advocate Volunteers”
Program will start promptly this Friday
Everyone is welcome!
Columbia Country Club
Old Rte. 63 North at 2210 North Country Club Drive
There is an optional buffet lunch available for $11. Students will receive a discount. If you have questions, please contact Scott Cristal at (573) 999-3871.
Muleskinners is supported, in part, by a small difference between what we pay for the meals and what we charge. However, the main source of funds to Muleskinners is the membership.
Please, consider joining Muleskinners to support the important part we play in maintaining the Democratic social network in Boone County and in continuing to keep Democrats informed and engaged in political dialogue. Membership forms can be found at the Treasurers table when you attend a meeting and the forms run each month in the Boone County Democrat or just visit the web site: http://www.boonecountydems.org/muleskinners/
Muleskinners’ Presents
Third and Forth Ward Candidate Forum
Third Ward Gary Kespohl & Karl Skala
Fourth Ward Daryl Dudley, Ian Thomas & Bill Weitkemper
Program will start promptly this Friday
Everyone is welcome!
Columbia Country Club
Old Rte. 63 North at 2210 North Country Club Drive
Coming up Next in February
2- 22: Kelly Hill, Program Coordinator, Heart of Missouri CASA “Challenges Facing the Foster Care System in Boone County: the role of Court Appointed Special Advocate Volunteers”
There is an optional buffet lunch available for $11. Students will receive a discount. If you have questions, please contact Scott Cristal at (573) 999-3871.
Muleskinners is supported, in part, by a small difference between what we pay for the meals and what we charge. However, the main source of funds to Muleskinners is the membership.
Please, consider joining Muleskinners to support the important part we play in maintaining the Democratic social network in Boone County and in continuing to keep Democrats informed and engaged in political dialogue. Membership forms can be found at the Treasurers table when you attend a meeting and the forms run each month in the Boone County Democrat or just visit the web site: http://www.boonecountydems.org/muleskinners/
Muleskinners’ Presents
Mayor’s Candidate Forum
Bob McDavid and Sid Sullivan
Program starts around Noon on Fridays
Everyone is welcome!
Columbia Country Club
Old Rte. 63 North at 2210 North Country Club Drive
Long time Democrat and former 4th Ward Committeeman Robert Bussabarger died Monday night, January 21, 2013, after an extended period of failing health. He was 90 years old. He is survived by his wife Mary Lou, his daughter Wendy Newell and son David, plus two grandchildren, Courtney and Nathan, and several great-grandchildren.
Bob was an internationally renowned ceramicist, sculptor, and painter. He created several original works for recipients of the Margaret Morgett Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded annually by Muleskinners, Boone County’s Democratic Luncheon Club, and was himself a recipient of that award.
Bob also served as Chair of the University Of Missouri Department Of Art, where he was a beloved colleague and mentor to many students over the years. He will also be remembered and dearly missed for his keen sense of humor and dry wit.
“Missouri cannot afford not to accept the new federal health care funding,” Joseph Pierle, CEO of the Missouri Primary Care Association and chairman of the Coalition for Healthy Economic Growth, said in a news release.
He predicted Medicaid expansion would have a huge positive effect on the state.
“This effort has the potential to have the greatest statewide economic impact in terms of job creation, income growth, and revenue growth than any initiative ever considered by our elected officials, impacting residents and businesses in every county and every House and Senate district,” Pierle said.
In a 19-county region that includes Boone County, the report predicts 2,422 new jobs next year, $130 million in additional economic activity and the coverage of 17,729 adults who now have no health coverage.
Rejecting the money doesn’t make sense, Nixon said. “We take a pass on billions of health care dollars that will go to some other state,” he said. “They will get the benefit, and we will get the bill. That’s not right.”
Because almost all Americans will have coverage under the Affordable Care Act, payments to hospitals that accept high numbers of indigent patients, called “disproportionate share” payments, will be drastically cut. The loss of that income, with nothing to replace it, could endanger the financial health of rural hospitals, Nixon said.
(excerpt from Columbia Tribune report 11/29/12)
