Monthly Archives: February 2015
Election Forums
League of Women Voters of Columbia-Boone County
Election Forums for April 2015 Election
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
6:30 p.m.
Columbia Public Library
Columbia City Council – Wards 2 and 6
Columbia School Board
Boone County Hospital Board
City of Columbia Ballot Issues
and
Monday, March 30, 2015
6:30 p.m.
Columbia Public Library
Columbia City Council – Ward 1
Too Many Roads
Too Many Roads and Bridges, Too Little Funding
“Lunch and Learn”
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Hy-Vee Club Room (Nifong store, 2nd Floor meeting room).
Travis Koestner, Assistant District Engineer, Missouri Department of Transportation, will be the guest speaker.
Missouri has more miles of state-maintained highways than Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas combined. Missouri has one of the lowest motor fuel excise tax and state sales tax rates of any of its surrounding states. About 43% of the government money spent for transportation in Missouri is from the federal government.
This program is free and open to the public.
Media Ownership
Media Ownership and Shaping Public Opinion
Wednesday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m.
on CAT-TV
This program will feature a panel of experts:
Andy Waters, General Manager of the Columbia Daily Tribune
Mike Jenner, Professor and Houston Harte Chair in Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism
and Mark Gordon, President & CEO, Missouri Broadcasters Association,
Randy Picht, Executive Director, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, will be the moderator.
The program will originate on Wednesday, February 11 at 7:00 p.m. and will be replayed on CAT TV (Mediacom Channel 85; Charter Communications Channel 983; and CenturyTel Prism Channel 98. Replay times on CAT TV are at 7 am on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and 7:30 pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.) The program will be available on the League website (lwvcbc.org) a few days after the show or at columbiaacess.tv.
League of Women Voters of Columbia-Boone County 