Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
February 7, 2008
Planned Parenthood Blog
Missouri voters, like you, understand that votes matter and have already told us that you strongly support state funds for family planning (69%), that you believe pharmacies should dispense birth control without discrimination or delay (65%), that you believe sex education should be comprehensive (76%), and that the government should not step between a patient and her doctor (63%). Not what Governor Blunt wants to hear. But, together, we say "enough is enough to failed policies and failed politicians."
January 22, 2008
Blunt won’t seek re-election
JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Matt Blunt, facing a tough re-election fight and a slowing economy, bowed out of the race Tuesday, declaring that he had accomplished all he set out to do.
In a video posted on the YouTube Internet site, Blunt said he decided not to seek re-election because he had little left to achieve. . . . “You could have knocked me over with a feather,” said Rep. Margaret Donnelly, a St. Louis County Democrat who is running for attorney general.
The announcement came just a week after Blunt’s campaign filed a quarterly fundraising report showing he had raised $9.88 million for his re-election bid.
In a video posted on the YouTube Internet site, Blunt said he decided not to seek re-election because he had little left to achieve. . . . “You could have knocked me over with a feather,” said Rep. Margaret Donnelly, a St. Louis County Democrat who is running for attorney general.
The announcement came just a week after Blunt’s campaign filed a quarterly fundraising report showing he had raised $9.88 million for his re-election bid.
February 15, 2007
Missouri democrats push for mental health program
JEFFERSON CITY — House Democrats proposed on Monday to expand funding for a mental health program that provides intensive care for the homeless, people with substance abuse problems and those who are unaware that they are ill. Supporters say the program is designed for patients who have struggled with the traditional model, which assigns patients a case worker who helps them secure a variety of health services. Jackie Lukitesch, executive director of the St. Louis office of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said the biggest difference between the more intense treatment and traditional models is that patients who miss treatments and appointments are not automatically removed from the program. "They go out and seek out why, if they don't come in, and do not discharge them," she said.
The stepped-up care, called "assertive community treatment," has been used in several states. The Department of Mental Health asked for $5 million to fund the program in its budget requests for the next fiscal year, but Gov. Matt Blunt did not include it in his budget recommendations. A spokeswoman for Blunt said the governor had not included funding for the program "because of funding constraints."
JEFFERSON CITY — House Democrats proposed on Monday to expand funding for a mental health program that provides intensive care for the homeless, people with substance abuse problems and those who are unaware that they are ill. Supporters say the program is designed for patients who have struggled with the traditional model, which assigns patients a case worker who helps them secure a variety of health services. Jackie Lukitesch, executive director of the St. Louis office of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said the biggest difference between the more intense treatment and traditional models is that patients who miss treatments and appointments are not automatically removed from the program. "They go out and seek out why, if they don't come in, and do not discharge them," she said.
The stepped-up care, called "assertive community treatment," has been used in several states. The Department of Mental Health asked for $5 million to fund the program in its budget requests for the next fiscal year, but Gov. Matt Blunt did not include it in his budget recommendations. A spokeswoman for Blunt said the governor had not included funding for the program "because of funding constraints."
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