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Ask the Governor to Release Funds for Missouri's Public Libraries

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Cheryl Tilley
11 years ago

Libraries are key to an effective democracy.

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Joan L. Greco
11 years ago

save our libraries

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Joan L. Greco
11 years ago

save our libraries

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James Henzi
11 years ago

One of my favoriteplaces in the world is a public library. That is where I have access to the universe.

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James Henzi
11 years ago

One of my favoriteplaces in the world is a public library. That is where I have access to the universe.

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Marc Pietrzykowski
11 years ago

shameful

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Marc Pietrzykowski
11 years ago

shameful

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Christine Elias
11 years ago

If we go the route of eliminating library funding, we risk the potentially disastrous results of becoming a genuinely backwater nation. Missouri itself has always been viewed as very backwards and unintellectual, but by basically reducing their funding to nothingness you're shooting any potential for the state to truly have a productive and capable future. Many of our nations Presidents rose from financial straits and they became the men they were and are today due to the help of libraries and those who wished to give them as much knowledge as humanly possible. Governor Nixon, don't ruin the opportunities that your future world leaders could have.

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Christine Elias
11 years ago

If we go the route of eliminating library funding, we risk the potentially disastrous results of becoming a genuinely backwater nation. Missouri itself has always been viewed as very backwards and unintellectual, but by basically reducing their funding to nothingness you're shooting any potential for the state to truly have a productive and capable future. Many of our nations Presidents rose from financial straits and they became the men they were and are today due to the help of libraries and those who wished to give them as much knowledge as humanly possible. Governor Nixon, don't ruin the opportunities that your future world leaders could have.

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elf Noyes
11 years ago

Why do you feel the need to endanger the many small libraries of Missouri. It isn't as if our population is over stressed by too many educational opportunities. You want to keep kids off the street? You want to keep them off drugs? then give the libraries their money and then some to cover programs that will keep them busy in a good way. You are making us look like a state of hicks who despise "learnin"

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elf Noyes
11 years ago

Why do you feel the need to endanger the many small libraries of Missouri. It isn't as if our population is over stressed by too many educational opportunities. You want to keep kids off the street? You want to keep them off drugs? then give the libraries their money and then some to cover programs that will keep them busy in a good way. You are making us look like a state of hicks who despise "learnin"

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Anonymous
11 years ago

We need our libraries!!

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Stephanie Mayer
11 years ago

We need our libraries!!

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Graham Olsen
11 years ago

Keep our libraries!

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Graham Olsen
11 years ago

Keep our libraries!

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Beverly Tomhave
11 years ago

This is egregious.

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Beverly Tomhave
11 years ago

This is egregious.

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abbey baldwin
11 years ago

how dare you try to take away something as important as a library. i loved the library as a child, and still do today

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abbey baldwin
11 years ago

how dare you try to take away something as important as a library. i loved the library as a child, and still do today

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Kathleen Kynion
11 years ago

Libraries, like schools, are one of the foundations of a free and equal society. You owe better to the people of Missouri Govenor Nixon.