Missouri’s Third District

Danny Busick, State Representative

Budget Highway Projects

The legislature has finished the budget for the 2024 fiscal year that begins in July 2023. Infrastructure improvement is a big priority for Governor Parson. Therefore the legislature budgeted a lot state funds for state infrastructure. Our state highway system will be the beneficiary of billions of state dollars over the next few years.

$2.5 million for land purchase and preliminary work on Highway 63 bypass of Macon.

$2 million for land purchase and preliminary work on Highway 61 bypass of Hannibal. Both projects are very important for Northeast Missouri and will improve travel in those regions of the state.

$100 million again this year for low volume roads. Many North Missouri roads are being resurfaced right now with the $100 million that was put in the 2023 budget. This will need to be continued for a couple more years to bring the condition of low volume MoDot roads back to a normal state.

$2.8 billion to rebuild I-70 into a 6 lane highway the entire width of the state. Many in District 3 may not think this will benefit them much.

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But it will result in additional gas tax revenues to all counties and cities.

With the surplus funds that exists in the state treasury. Infrastructure is a great way to use those funds. We have let our state highway system deteriorate greatly over the last few decades. It is time to rebuild it.

Due to the recent passage of Amendment 1 on November 6, 2018, please be advised that any communications or documents received by this office that were previously treated as confidential may now be subject to public disclosure pursuant to any request made under the Missouri Sunshine Law.

As always it’s a privilege to serve the 3rd District. Please contact my office at 573-751-3647 if you need anything at all. Further information can be obtained by email at danny.busick@house. mo.gov or by visiting www.house.mo.gov

Secure Our Border

May 11, 2023

Dear Friend, pouring into this country undetected while our Border Patrol agents are so overwhelmed. laundry list of executive orders rolling back security at our border and halting construction of the border wall. Instead of listening to the pain of American families and communities, he’s doubled down and continued to push for more open border policies.

Human traffickers and drug smugglers have also been exploiting the crisis. Over 14,000 pounds of fentanyl was seized at southern border last year—enough to kill almost half the world’s population. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s still more fentanyl flooding across our border and into our communities.

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We’ve spent over five billion dollars building more than 2,700 miles of wall—and no, not at our southern border. All along our nation’s highways, we’ve built noise abatement walls—20 to 30 feet tall in some cases. Protecting neighborhoods from highway noise might be worthwhile, but it isn’t a crisis. What’s happening at our southern border is a crisis.

There have been more than 5 million illegal border crossings since

President Biden took office and more than 1.3 million illegal immigrants have evaded apprehension at the border. That’s bad enough, but now, with Title 42 set to end at midnight, illegal border crossings are skyrocketing.

In the last 72 hours, there have been 26,382 apprehensions at the border. That’s more than one apprehension every 10 seconds. And those are just the crossings we know about—that doesn’t even begin to account for the number of illegal immigrants

How do we know that? Because we’ve all seen the devastating impacts of fentanyl use in our communities. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year and many of them overdosed on fentanyl and other synthetic opioids trafficked across our southern border. These aren’t just numbers; it’s friends taken from us too soon, children losing parents, and parents mourning the loss of children. No parent should have to bury their child because we don’t have the courage to secure our southern border.

Make no mistake, this crisis isn’t by mistake— it’s by design. On his first day in office, President Biden fired off a

Republicans in Congress aren’t going to sit by and let this happen. Today, we passed the Secure the Border Act, which resumes construction of the border wall, deploys new technology to the border, increases the number of Border Patrol agents, strengthens laws protecting unaccompanied minors from human traffickers, ends the catch and release of illegal immigrants, and ends the abuse of immigration authorities by the President. This is a commonsense solution every American should be able to get behind.

If we can afford to spend billions building thousands of miles of noise abatement walls along our highways, we can finish the wall and secure our border to protect our children and our communities. We can’t afford not to.

Sincerely, Sam Graves

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Bixler 108 Listening Room Live Music on the Square Performances

2023

May 19 ~ (Fri) 7pm Daniel Boling. Albuquerque, New Mexico

May 26 (Fri) Avery Grouws Band, Iowa (one of the midwests hottest acts)

June 7-10 ~ 7pm Old Time CountryMusic Festival at City Park

June 16 ~ (Fri) 7pm Daniel Nuehoff. Kentucky

June 22 ~ (Thurs) 7pm

Aspen Black, Virginia

June 23 ~ (Fri) 7pm Pierce Crask, Chicago via St. Louis

June 30 ~ (Fri) 7pm Camela Widad, Spring Green, WI

July 2 ~ (Sun) 2pm Good News Community ChoirIndependence Day Cantana