[Vision2020] Wal-Mart is Unwelcome

Wed Jan 25 10:38:12 PST 2006

This is not true. My father told me that those parts of the hill have always
been more slummy than other parts. It is where a lot of the 'service' people
lived during better times for the hill. When I say 'service' I mean the
blacks and those who were maids and cooks. I talked with him about this when
I was 21 and had returned from Georgia and had experienced so much
discrimination. We talked about the 'sections' of Spokane that were where
the 'blacks' lived and where they didn't and it was the time I actually
realized the extent of the problem even locally. Dad said that his opinion
had always been that they wanted to live there and in that 'way'. But, we
both realized that was no longer true and that we needed to help it change
with our votes. I can remeber during the 1940's driving through certain
sections of Spokane and this is one we avoided because of the 'problem
people'. The freeway did not do it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Solomon" <msolomon at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart is Unwelcome

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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>Here's a catchy tune:
>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/Walmart.mp3
>>
>>
>>
>>Take care, Moscow.
>>
>>
>>
>>Tom Hansen
>>
>>
>>
>>"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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