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Sign LanguageThumbs Up/Thumbs Down Awards2009
to Mike Prosperi of Imo's Pizza for speaking out in favor of a smoking ban for public places, including restaurants, in Kirkwood. Prosperi told the Kirkwood City Council at a recent meeting that his business has not been harmed since his restaurant went nonsmoking.
to the St. Louis Preservation Board, which approved the demolition of the San Luis Apartments (formerly the DeVille Motor Hotel) on Lindell Blvd. in the Central West End to make way for a parking lot. Although opinions on the San Luis were mixed, there are many questions about the wisdom of tearing down a city's heritage in order to build one more parking lot.
to developer Paul J. McKee Jr., chairman/CEO of McEagle Properties, owner of the historic James Clemens House on Cass Ave., who has let the property deterioriate to dangerous conditions. The property, a rare antebellum mansion, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. And a concurrent ...
to the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, which has named hundreds of McKee-owned properties in north city on the list of endangered sites in St. Louis.
to drugstore giant Walgreens, which is offering free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of 2009.
to more than two dozen religious leaders in the St. Louis area, who have formed a coalition to protest planned cuts in Missouri's 2010 budget.
to Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, which has received a three year grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health to establish the St. Louis Children's Health Advocacy Project (SCHAP).
to a new on-line publication, Pro Publica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Their work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” They do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.
to Washington University, which is phasing out sales of bottled water on its campus.
to the "Missouri Roundtable," a coalition of anti-choice groups throughout the state, which is attempting to get an initiative petition on the ballot that would prohibit state funding "for abortion services, human cloning, or other prohibited human research." Human cloning was outlawed in Missouri in 2006, when voters approved Amendment 2 and said they wanted stem cell research.
to Judy Arnold, a member of the Health Care Focus Group, and Cathy Blair, a member of the Environment Focus Group. Both had letters to the editor printed in the St. Louis Post Dispatch in January. Judy's letter, titled "In 2009, Let Reason Prevail," addressed the insanity of the Medicare prescription drug plan. Cathy's letter, "Show Them The Faucets," focused on efforts to stop using city money to purchase bottled water.
November, 2008
to election officials in the state of Missouri, who are still trying to determine which presidential candidate carried the state a week after the 2008 election.
to politicans and political campaigns that have launched attacks on community organizers. Community organizers work hard for the benefit of the most disadvantaged in our society. They deserve blessings, not brickbats.
to the St. Louis American newspaper, which has been named runner-up in the Newspaper of the Year competition sponsored by Suburban Newspapers of America! The American was recognized in the category of papers with more than 37,500 circulation. The paper, which has served the African-American community in St. Louis for more than 80 years, contains a wealth of information about the St. Louis metro area that cannot be found in any other publication. Kudos to the staff!
to the Missouri Drug Card plan, which will give state residents discounts of up to 75 percent on hundreds of brand name and generic medications. Cards can be printed out at www.missouridrugcard.com.
July, 2008
to Home Depot for being the first major nation retail outlet to recycle compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). Individuals can bring in any expired, unbroken CFLs, and give them to a Home Depot store associate behind the returns desk free-of-charge. This is a national program. See the website, spread the news.
to the City of St. Louis Refuse Department Recycling Division for being ahead of the rest. We first got the CFL recycling news from their website, then in their July newsletter.
to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., which is now offering a three-month supply of certain prescription drugs for $10. In 2006 Wal-Mart launched a program to sell generic drugs for $4.
to Jennifer's Pharmacy in Clayton, which is discontinuing the use of plastic bags throughout the store. Alternate bags, which have no environmental impact, are available for a small fee. Customers who insist on a plastic bag will be charged for each bag they use. Women's Voices commends Jennifer's Pharmacy for its leadership on this issue.
to the smart and compassionate Missouri voters who declined to sign the so-called "Missouri Civil Rights Initiative," which would have put an anti-affirmative action measure on the ballot in November 2008.
May, 2008
to the North St. Louis YouthBuild program, which will receive an award from Focus St. Louis in May in the area of "providing quality educational opportunities." Ironically, this program, which provides educational opportunities as well as job training skills, will likely be discontinued next year because government funding has been withdrawn. For information about this innovative program, go to: www.friedensforever.org.
March, 2008
to both Democrats and Republicans in the Missouri legislature, who killed Phase I of Governor Matt Blunt's Insure Missouri program. While this proposal was not perfect, it would have enabled 54,000 low-income working parents to obtain health care coverage beginning in the middle of March.
January, 2008
To Ward Connerly, chair of the so-called "American Civil Rights Institute," who is backing and bankrolling an effort to get signatures on the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, a proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution. The proposal, under the guise of "civil rights," would actually end most affirmative-action programs in the state.
To all those who have exposed Connerly's intent to wage a racist campaign to strike down an important justice-making tool, and to all those who will decline to sign the petitions to get this issue on the 2008 ballot in Missouri.
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