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Vol. 83 No. 1
CAC Audited APRIL 7 – 13, 2011
COMPLIMENTARY
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Prop E, Hattie, Jake win big
Scott Sisters seek pardon
Photo by Rosalind Guy
Gladys Scott and Jamie Scott were supported by some 200 people in a rally on their behalf held Friday at the capitol building in Jackson, Miss. The women served 16 years for their roles in an armed robbery of less than $200. Jamie Scott suffers from lifethreatening kidney failure. In January, Gov. Haley Barbour suspended their sentences on the condition that Gladys Scott donate a kidney to her sister. Now they seek a full pardon, which Barbour has denied.
2011 SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH CARE
Sinquefield proposal defeated by 88 percent of city voters JACKSON DOMINATES FOUR-CANDIDATE FIELD FOR SLCC TRUSTEE American staff
Half a century delivering babies 2011 Lifetime Achievement Awardee Jonathan R. Reed, M.D. By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American It’s that moment in the delivery room when a newborn lands in the doctor’s hands. The parents and grandparents light up with joy. That connection shared between the doctor and a family impassioned Jonathan R. Reed, M.D., in his 35 years of solo practice as a gynecologist and obstetrician and eight years in a public health
center. Though he has been retired for five years, people in the community continually recognize him as their physician and introduce him to the grown children he helped to deliver. “After administering eight or nine months of pre-natal care and then to accompany that mother into the delivery room and experience the
“That experience at Homer Phillips was really amazing. I still cherish those years.” – Dr. Jonathan Reed
See REED, A7
Remembering Manning Marable
Manning Marable, an important advocate, chronicler, scholar and intellectual for Black America, died Friday, April 1, 2011 in New York at the age of 60.
‘Embodiment of the scholar/activist’ passes away at age 60 By Chris King Of The St. Louis American When Manning Marable died Friday, April 1, 2011 in New York at the age of 60, Black America lost an important advocate, chronicler, scholar and intellectual. “He was the embodiment of the scholar/activist,” said Adrienne D. Davis, vice provost and professor of law at Washington University. “He was a deep thinker who had a great love for his people,” said Donald M. Suggs, who for many years published Marable’s column in
“I liked his seriousness of purpose and his demeanor of the proud black intellectual.” – Gerald Early
The St. Louis American. “He was a brilliant intellectual and a very inventive thinker, very principled and uncompromising,”
BUSINESS
There were decisive victories at the polls on Tuesday in the three races followed most closely by The St. Louis American. Proposition E, a vote to retain the 1 percent earnings tax in the city of St. Louis for another five years, won by an all but unanimous 88 percent, a margin of nearly 30,000 votes. The push for Prop E, depicting it as a threat to public safety, resulted in a 20 percent voter turnout in the city, a strong number for an April municipal election. Nearly 40,000 people cast their vote in the city on Tuesday. Hattie R. Also in the city, Hattie R. Jackson Jackson had a resounding win as St. Louis Community College trustee, winning 66 percent of the vote in a four-candidate field. She beat the incumbent, Denise Chachere, by nearly 8,000 votes. Jackson was surprised Wednesday morning hearing the precise vote totals read back Hattie R. to her. “Wow,” she Jackson said. acknowledged In St. Louis County, which voted with a laugh last year to elect its that “all those tax assessor, Jake students I Zimmerman proved taught over that not paying your business taxes time” are now promptly is much, voters. much more toxic in St. Louis County than being a Democrat. He beat the Republican candidate for County Assessor, the realtor L.K. “Chip” Wood, 64 to 36 percent, a margin of nearly 32,000 votes. The vote on Proposition E, and one just like it every five years, was triggered by a statewide vote last year. That ballot initiative, funded by Rex Sinquefield, restricted municipalities in Missouri from enacting a new
See MARABLE, A6
See ELECTION, A6
SPORTS
LIVING IT
EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site
Beal named National Player of the Year
Obsessed with O.J.
Clay, Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club applaud decisions; environmentalists raise objections to process.
Chaminade College Prep All-American basketball player becomes first Missouri player awarded since honor started in 1985.
Ishmael Reed’s new novel Juiced! is sour on the media for O.J.-bashing, O.J.obsessing and black male-hating.
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