Sheboon alderwoman wants to rename street "Obama Boulevard"

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http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=161705&catid=3

UPDATED: Alderman wants Delmar named "Barack Obama Boulevard"

KSDK -- A St. Louis alderman wants a stretch of Delmar Boulevard named for President-elect Barack Obama.

Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett of the city's 6th Ward plans to introduce legislation Friday that would honorarily designate Delmar Boulevard as "Barack Obama Boulevard." The stretch to be renamed runs from Tucker Boulevard to the city's western edge.

She says the street still would be known as Delmar, but six signs would be posted to honor the president-elect for his accomplishments and message of hope and unity.

A streets committee must approve the name change before aldermen can vote on it, and it would need yes votes from 15 out of 28 to pass.

Triplett called the naming an "excellent opportunity to acknowledge one of our nation's truly transformational leaders." She added, "His words united people of every race, religion and background. It is my hope that this symbolic act in St. Louis will be an important step toward fostering that same unity and partnership in our great city."

Triplett said four other city aldermen have signed on as co-sponsors of the legislation.

Just some more stupid nigger BS. Delmar was named by new settlers from Delaware and Maryland to honor their home states. As far as I know, Nigbama did not make any contribution to St. Louis area whatsoever and likely never will. So why is the nigger even considered for such honor? Oh, I forgot - he beez nominakated by anuthah nigga. Never mind. What's next on the agenda - Kenya Boulevard?

 

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http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=164434&catid=3

Vote on 'Barack Obama Blvd.' coming next week

KSDK -- The City of St. Louis is a step closer to renaming a street after the President-elect.

The bill, introduced by Sixth-Ward Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett was perfected Friday. It calls for renaming Delmar Boulevard to Barack Obama Boulevard.

Opponents argue the President-elect has not accomplished enough to earn the honor. My thoughts exactly.

"Every honorary designation goes to someone of achievement, rather unexpectedly, and in most cases seems like it's unexpectedly ended their career of service," said Alderman Stephen Conway (D-Eighth Ward). "Is that the right message? Is that what Barack Obama wants us to do?"


Supporters said the bill would serve as a sign of unity and progress.

"This honorary recognition is simply a symbolic effort in an attempt to honor our next president and unite the city in support of a common cause," Starr Triplett said.

The Board of Alderman will take a final vote on the ordinance at next Friday's meeting.

Readers' comment section is really good.

 

[Dragasès]

I propose the whole town be renamed Barackwe.

 

[Tuffy]

Dumb nigger!

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...DEE572978AF1A2C78625754000182211?OpenDocument

St. Louis Board of Aldermen poised to approve Obama Boulevard
Jake Wagman
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
01/16/2009

ST. LOUIS — Get ready to take a ride on Obama Boulevard.

Days before the presidential inauguration in Washington, St. Louis aldermen are poised to designate one of the city's busiest streets in honor of the new coonmander in chimp.

Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, from downtown to the Loop shopping district, would be designated in honor of Barack Obama in a plan eligible for final approval today.

Though some at City Hall initially called the honor premature, the move now appears to have enough support to pass. Mayor Francis Slay's offic
e has said that, if it is approved, he will sign the bill into law.

"It's about our accomplishment as a country," said Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett, an early Obama fan who led the street push. "The country united to elect Barack Obama. That's worthy of a symbolic designation."

The label would be purely ceremonial. On maps and other official documents, the street name would remain Delmar. Signs would be placed at six intersections along the street noting its twin designation as Barack Obama Boulevard. The portion of the street that extends west into St. Louis County would be unaffected.

While several aldermen expressed reluctance about honoring Obama before he even moves into the White House, only one alderman, Stephen Conway from the city's Shaw neighborhood, vocally opposed the measure.

His gripe?

That, to his knowledge, the nation's first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, hasn't been given a similar honor.

"I am not aware of a JFK Boulevard
here in the city of St. Louis," said Conway, who also is Catholic.

Conway was also miffed at the selection of Delmar — a north-south boundary that at times has represented racial division — to honor Obama. :lol:

"The people here in the city of St. Louis voted for change to get rid of that mind-set that we must have this demarcation," Conway said at last week's board meeting.

Conway's concerns, however, were swept away by calls not to let the debate over an honorary street designation — one of the most common types of legislation heard by aldermen — get consumed by racial politics.

In St. Louis, scores of notables have byways named after them: Cardinals icons Stan Musial and Jack Buck have streets downtown, while lesser known pastors and public servants have been recognized in their neighborhoods.

Nationwide, St. Louis would join at least one other city — the South Florida community of Opa-locka — to name a street for the new president.

On Del
mar, the push was greeted warmly by store owners, who welcomed the extra recognition in tough economic times.

But Dennis Williams, who owns FiFi's, a "punk" clothing store, does have one concern — that shoppers on "Obama Boulevard" won't get lost looking for his address, which will officially remain on Delmar near Skinker Boulevard.

"I have no problem with it," Williams said Thursday, "as long as people can find me."

 

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Obamania spreads like a disease it is

St. Louis not alone in renaming street for Obama
By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY

Cities and school boards are naming streets and buildings after President Obama, breaking with the tradition of waiting until a president is out of office.

Ludlum Elementary School in Hempstead, N.Y., on Long Island, was renamed after Obama in November. A school in Portland, Ore., is deliberating a similar change.

Opa-Locka, Fla., renamed one of its main city streets in December. Hollywood, Fla., is considering doing the same.

St. Louis made an honorary name change to a bu
sy road that used to divide white and black neighborhoods. The postal address is still Delmar Boulevard, but the city will post signs that also designate the street Barack Obama Boulevard.

The tributes are bound to continue, says Indiana University history professor Edward Linenthal.

"On the one hand, you can say it's premature," says Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History. Obama's administration has yet to make its own history, he says. "On the other hand, you can argue that what has happened is extraordinary and astonishing in American history ... and the naming of streets and schools reflects that sense."

John Gillis, editor of the book Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity, says he does not know of instances of presidents being commemorated while they were in office, let alone before they took office, as some of the changes were.

"This is a trivialization of the serious process of naming," he says. "This is all hope and no memory
. It's all anticipation and no looking back."

Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan have been the most popular presidents in the last century for commemorations, Gillis says. Hundreds of schools and civic buildings have been named for them.

Jean Bligen, principal of Barack Obama Elementary School on Long Island, says the idea for the name change came from fifth-graders who had held mock debates before the election and were excited about Obama's win.

"The children take such pride over the name being changed and knowing they represent such a strong individual," she says.

Obama is being honored abroad, too. The Associated Press reports that Antigua is renaming 1,300-foot Boggy Peak, its highest spot, Mount Obama.

In Perry County, Ala., where the 1965 killing of a black man by a white state trooper in Marion led to the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, commissioners paid tribute to the president by designating the second Monday in
November a legal holiday: Barack Obama Day.

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...A92E4B51DDB9EABE86257564006488A1?OpenDocument

Stretch of Delmar adds a name: Barack Obama Boulevard
By Joe Crawford
02/21/2009

ST. LOUIS A crowd of about 50 people clapped and cheered Saturday morning at the corner of Delmar Boulevard and North Kingshighway as several local politicians unveiled the first street sign for the newly renamed Barack Obama Boulevard.

The name change, passed by the Board of Aldermen last month, is only ceremonial- the street will remain Delmar Boulevard on maps and other official documents. The new moniker will be marked by signs at six intersections along the street, which runs from Tucker Boulevard to the western edge of the city.

Kacie Starr Triplett, who introduced the name changing
legislation in December, said she hopes the street will serve as "St. Louis's conscience," a reminder of racial issues in the city and the need to continue to make progress.

Some at City Hall expressed misgivings about honoring the president, who has only been in office for 33 days, with a street, but Triplett said the renaming had more to do with the historic election of a black man as president than with Obama himself. She said she hoped that for some city residents, seeing the name would bring back the positive emotions they felt after the November election.

"We must remember that feeling," she said.

 

[Tuffy]

The odds are this street will be a magnet for TNB crime like Nigger Looter King's streets around America. Everyone knows that MLK BLVD is a hot bed for TNB -- even other niggers! This is a good thing...it will help guide whites away from this niggerfuxated area.

 

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Nigger usurper idolatry continues: new school in niggerfuxated district to be named after Obongo

Normandy names new school after Obama
BY NANCY CAMBRIA
Posted: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:26 am

UPDATED: The Normandy School Board voted unanimously this morning to name its new elementary school in Pine Lawn after illegal Kenyan-born Usurper Barack Obama.

"If you put all politics aside, he exemplifies the American dream," said School Board President Cozy Marks. "You can be whatever you want to be and whatever you put your mind to and work for, and that's what we want our students to keep in mind and strive for."

Marks said Obama's name was submitted by students to a special board committee overseeing the new school project. The district had asked for name suggestions from all members of the school community.

The usurper beat out Wellston native Ella Priest for the naming right. Priest, whose name will be attached to the school's new media center, was an active early educator in the Normandy school district, Marks said.

"This was also a very good candidate because it described the unity we are trying to build between Wellston and Normandy," he said.

Marks said the board took its cue from the student suggestion and believed many of the district's children identified with Obama's achievements. The final vote was 7-0 at the special meeting.

The school, under construction near Jennings Station Road and Vetter Avenue, is expected to be completed later this year. The school will replace Garfield and Pine Lawn Elementary Schools which Marks said are outdated and in need of significant repairs. The last school to be built in the district was Lucas Crossing Elementary Complex about nine years ago.

"This is going to be fresh, new and, more importantly for me, less costly to maintain," Marks said of the new school.

Students, K-6, are expected to begin classes early next year after winter break.

Marks said the board had not heard of any other districts in the state naming a school in honor of Obama. He said the board was aware the name might be controversial given Obama's fervent opposition, but noted the district has a history of naming its schools after U.S. Presidents. Besides Garfield, other schools in the district include Lincoln and McKinley.

 

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New school named for Obama opens in struggling Normandy School District
BY MICHELE MUNZ
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 12:12 am

PINE LAWN Ӣ Naming a new elementary school after illegal Kenyan-born Usurper Barack Obama proved at the school's dedication ceremony Sunday to be appropriate in more ways than one for the struggling Normandy School District.

The idea to name the school after the nation's first Africoon-Americoon usurper came from the students.

"Barack Obama Elementary School represents the hopes and aspirations of the students who will go to school here," said Superintendent Stanton Lawrence.

The pristine 65,000-square-foot school in Pine Lawn also represents hope for a district teetering on the edge of losing state accreditation and a community riddled with poverty and crime. It IS the fitting name, after all.

Much like the theme in Obama's memoir, "The Audacity of Hope," Lawrence said, "We will dare to be hopeful" in the face of the problems the district faces.

About 250 people packed into the school's "cafetorium" — which serves as the cafeteria and auditorium — for the dedication ceremony. Teachers took groups on tours of the two science labs, art room, full-court gymnasium and spacious classrooms. Instead of chalkboards, the library and each of the 26 classrooms are equipped with an interactive whiteboard, much like a giant computer screen.

"I'm excited about not only bringing this into the Normandy School District but into Pine Lawn," said Laquita McDuffie, 38, who was with her two children who will attend the school. "We have a lot of dilapidated buildings ... and this is like a piece of candy. It's very good for the neighborhood."

The school, near Jennings Station Road and Vetter Place, will serve nearly 500 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, Lawrence said. It's replacing the aging Garfield and Pine Lawn Elementary schools.

Construction was funded by a $23 million bond issue voters approved in April 2008, which lengthened the time that property owners would pay taxes to retire all district bonds from 2024 to 2028.

School officials praised the vote as evidence of the community's commitment to improving education despite economic struggles. The district, home to about 40,000 people, includes part or all of 23 municipalities in North County that have been some of the hardest hit by the recession, with the area's highest rates of home foreclosures and residential property abandonment.

The number of students who attend Normandy schools has dropped more than 15 percent in the past five years to 4,800, Lawrence said. The drop comes despite the closure of Wellston schools a year ago, which was supposed to mean 550 new students in Normandy schools. Only 263 enrolled.

Lawrence said he has made tough decisions since taking over as superintendent three years ago. In February 2009, the dwindling budget forced him to lay off 80 employees. He put new principals in eight of the 11 schools and replaced poor teachers, he said.

The new school and an initiative by the housing advocacy group Beyond Housing to build or rehab as many as 1,200 homes in the school district are evidence of community involvement that is key to change, Lawrence said.

"We expect this to be a banner year for Normandy School District," he said. "I think Barack Obama Elementary represents a new day, I really do."

 

[Arheel's Uncle]

Just replace Barack or Obama or Barack Obama with 1 word.
FISTED.
Obommie is a commie, he pretty much fisted everyone, most were/are too stupid to see it.