Lewis Hamilton leads Formula One standings British-born race car driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.
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Vol. 84 No. 11
CAC Audited JUNE 14 – 20, 2012
COMPLIMENTARY
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MSD to receive ‘Community Benefits Agreement’ NAACP wants contractual guarantees to inclusion, apprenticeships By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American The Metropolitan Sewer District’s $1.6 billion construction and maintenance project – the first phase in the district’s $4.7billion system overhaul – will create more than 25,500 jobs over the next four years, according to an MSD-commissioned impact study.
But will those jobs go to low-income families who will see their sewer bills double in the next four years because of the project? “Where the jobs come from is a question that has been unanswered,” said Don Phares, professor emeritus of economics and public policy at University of Missouri–St. Louis. Tonight at the MSD Board of Trustees
meeting, the St. Louis City NAACP will propose a plan to ensure job training, education and employment for unemployed, low-income minorities and women. “It is essential that the economic opportunities be quantified and we measure how effective MSD is in delivering the benefits to the disenfranchised,” said
“The Community Benefits Agreement we propose is enforceable through injunctive relief, thus giving the community the ability to ensure that benefits are actually delivered.” – Adolphus Pruitt, NAACP
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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
College Bound graduates first college cohort
Former St. Louis Comptroller Virvus Jones is managing his daughter Tishaura O. Jones’ campaign for Treasurer of the City of St. Louis. She is on the August 7 primary ballot.
‘This program should be available for everybody’ By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American One adult with a college degree can end the cycle of generational poverty in a family forever. However, fewer than nine percent of students from lowincome backgrounds receive their bachelor’s degree by age 24. Ayriel Hadley graduated from Saint Louis University this May, and she is the Photo by Peter Wochniak first in her family to Ayriel Hadley graduate from college. She said she wouldn’t have been able to navigate the college process without six years of support from local nonprofit College Bound, founded in 2006. “The whole college process and the friendships I’ve built through College Bound, they have been important in my life and development,” Hadley said. “Without that, See COLLEGE, A7
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Like father, like daughter Tishaura and Virvus Jones are a family that campaigns together By Chris King Of The St. Louis American Tishaura O. Jones has been seeing a great deal of her father approaching Father’s Day 2012. She is on the August 7 primary ballot for Treasurer of the City of St. Louis, and her dad – former city Comptroller Virvus Jones – is managing her campaign. “He has run successful citywide campaigns, and he ran both my successful campaigns for state representative,” Tishaura said. “There was no other choice.”
Market owner targeted for campaign support Senate staffer denies he threatened legal action if Nasheed sign wasn’t taken down By Chris King Of The St. Louis American Jamilah Nasheed is off the ballot in the Missouri Senate’s 5th District race in the city of St. Louis, pending an
appeal, but her campaign remains a target of bullying tactics by a staffer for the incumbent, according to a witness. Footage from the surveillance camera at Salama Market, 1525 Choteau,
“I definitely am cut from the cloth of diversity and inclusion and that kind of politics.” – Tishaura O. Jones
Jones was elected to represent the 63rd District in the Missouri House of Representatives in 2008 and reelected in 2010, then selected by her fellow Democrats as
Assistant Minority House Leader. She became the first African American and the first female in Missouri history to hold this position. “I felt like I had a finger on the pulse of everything going on in the Legislature,” she said. “I attended daily meetings where we reviewed everything going on from a legislative standpoint and met regularly with the Governor’s Office.” In both the historic leadership position and her absorption in policy, Tishaura follows in her See JONES, A7
shows John Bowman, legislative staff for 5th District state Senator Robin Wright-Jones, showing paperwork to Alaa Akaana, who was clerking the market counter, at approximately 1:50 p.m. on Saturday, June 9. Bowman is wearing a golf shirt with the State of Missouri seal. “He had a badge on his shirt.” Akaana said. “Not a badge, but the badge was part of the shirt.” Akaana told The American that the man with the official “badge” sewn on his shirt, which Bowman admits was him, showed him some official paperwork. The paperwork stated that See NASHEED, A6 Image provided by Salama Market
John Bowman, legislative staff for 5th District state Senator Robin Wright-Jones, approaching a clerk at Salama Market, 1525 Choteau, regarding a Jamilah Nasheed campaign sign on Saturday.