[Vision2020] Wal-Mart is Unwelcome

[Mark Solomon]

The saddest thing about the absolutely real 
conditions of crime and poverty on the lower 
parts of the South Hill is how they became that 
way. It wasn't always that way. It is a direct 
result of building I-90 directly through a 
neighborhood dividing and destroying its bonds 
along the way as well as effectively cutting 
parts of it off from easy police patrol. Add in 
that no one who can afford to wants to live next 
to all the noise and other attributes of our 
modern transportation system and the resultant 
depression of very local real estate prices or 
rentals and modern day Spokane takes form.

Mark Solomon

>Hansen
>
>Do you know the South Hill?
>
>This depends on where on the South Hill you are 
>talking about.  If it refers to 29th and Maple, 
>thats one thing, but it could just as easily be 
>the South Hill around 10th and Arthur, which is 
>the Ghetto.  My ex's family was from the poverty 
>stricken part of the South Hill and I lived 
>there yrears ago and stull go up to see my 
>nephews and neices up there.  I would be willing 
>to bet a fairish amount that the income in that 
>part of the South Hill does not exceed yours, 
>unless you want to include the drug dealers and 
>the pimps in the equation.
>
>YOu see the South Hill of Spokane is one of 
>those sickening contrasts we have where the 
>really really poor live darn near on the 
>doorstep of the very very rich.  Police patrol 
>the borders.  One side has opportunity and the 
>other side prays to get out.
>
>Phil Nisbet
>
>>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>Subject: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart is Unwelcome
>>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:09:34 -0800
>>
>>>From today's (January 25, 2006) Spokesman Review with a special thanks to
>>Gerald Houseman.
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>>We're not in this alone, Moscow.
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>>Wal-Mart is unwelcome
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>>So Wal-Mart, the no-goodnik corporate citizen, wants to extend its ugly
>>plastic blight to Spokane's South Hill ("Wal-Mart considering supercenter on
>>South Hill," Jan. 19). This would be a disaster for the environment, traffic
>>control, property values, the business climate, aesthetics, and the social
>>conscience of our neighborhood and our region.
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>>Wal-Mart is a job-killer, a bully company always seeking unfair competitive
>>advantages (low-wage Chinese labor for its products, local tax concessions
>>and giveaways on matters like traffic management), and, if the thousands of
>>lawsuits against it can be considered credible, a lawbreaker, as well. It
>>has allegedly been involved in overtime violations, discrimination against
>>women, contracts with employers of illegal immigrants, and gross and
>>intimidating anti-union activities.
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>>There is no place for Wal-Mart outside Bentonville, Ark. Like all
>>corporations, its charter rests upon a legal privilege - not a right - to
>>incorporate, a privilege that should have been revoked long ago.
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>>Gerald L. Houseman
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>>Dale "Doug's Boy" Courtney claims that Wal-Mart's primary effort is aimed at
>>providing a benefit to low-income families.
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>>Like those of Spokane's South Hill?  Come on "Comb-Over".  The average
>>family income for those living in Spokane's South Hill has got to be
>>considerably more than mine.
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>>Here's a catchy tune:
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>>http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/Walmart.mp3
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>>Take care, Moscow.
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>>
>>Tom Hansen
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>>"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
>>safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
>>sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
>>up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"
>>
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