I hear they’re working on Jesus kicking off his return to earth out at Truman. They’re just trying to figure out how to spin having the rapture being a good thing.

With all of the promises how come they don’t say anything about the “other” athletic contests that will be seen at Truman. How come they don’t talk about the big new TV studio and the cameras hidden in the $38 Million earmarked for electrical upgrades.
How come the “potty parity” all of the sudden shows up and the SOS people don’t even know what it is, much less promise us that it will be taken are of. Why do all of the job promises come out now, they should have been part of the everyday employment situation. The SOS promises are all hollow and will never happen.

to chris and mark: thanks chris for referring to the “new downtown arena” as just that, and not the sprint arena. sprint will only pony up its naming rights cash if we get an nba or nhl team. nothing less will do. the latest entry into the world of trashsports, the brigade, doesn’t count. team tennis doesn’t count. wwf doesn’t count. nothing counts except nba and/or nhl. have you heard squat about that happening? don’t be surprised if you do in the next three days before the vote. sprint was very clear on this contingency attached to their purchase of naming rights. more bullshit from the same losers who are behind sos. and mark, the $38 million the chiefs want to bribe out of us will actually go to building a broadcast studio enabling them to plug into the nfl network…a wholly owned broadcast network offering “all nfl all the time” on which they can sell ads generating hundreds of millions of $$$$…none of which will be shared with jackson county. currently, the electrical systems at arrowhead do not enable them to do this. like an old house with outdated wiring and electrical service, there is simply not enough jizzum for them to plug in. the chiefs want the taxpayer to build that. renovation? no. refurbishment? no. maintenance? no. part of the 1990 lease? no. EXPANSION? YES! and the taxpayers are not responsible for that. as far as potty parity…read the following and see how clueless HOK is on this issue.

on tuesday VOTE NO! VOTE NO! TWICE. ONCE ON QUESTION #1 AND ONCE ON QUESTION #2. and when voting, make sure you push the piece of chad clear through to next week…don’t give the sleazy voter fraud types in jackson county a chance to discard your vote.

Potty parity? New stadium slights women by 39 stalls
By Elizabethe Holland
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/5A15D17866E3D6F186257140001F22D3?

For the many spiffy, state-of-the-art offerings at new Busch Stadium, it
appears the ballpark won’t have one thing state law says it must: potty
parity.

A Missouri law passed in 1995 requires that sports stadiums and other large
public venues have an equal number of water closets – or toilets – for
women as there are water closets and urinals for men.

But while the new stadium will have one more public restroom for women than
men, male fans will have 39 more places to go to the bathroom than female
fans, according to numbers provided by HOK, the architectural firm that
designed the ballpark.

Potty parity laws have been pushed nationwide in recent years with the
intent of clipping long lines at women’s restrooms – or at least making
them comparable to the typically shorter lines outside men’s rooms.

Asked about the disparity at new Busch, St. Louis’ acting building
commissioner, Frank Oswald, said he did not know there was a potty parity
law in Missouri. And city Operations Manager Ronald H. Smith – the city’s
building commissioner at the time the stadium plans were approved – said
the city doesn’t enforce the statute. Rather, he said, the building
division enforces locally adopted building codes – in the stadium’s case,
the 1987 National Standard Plumbing Code, which the city booted last year
in favor of a code that requires more restroom facilities for women than
men.

“It would be very difficult to be responsible for enforcing every state law
that is passed,” Smith said. “There are a ton of things at the state level
that we may or may not be aware of. The codes we adopt are what we are
supposed to enforce.”

That the potty parity law Irene Treppler fought for despite much ridicule
appears to have been overlooked at the new Busch came as a big surprise
this week to the former longtime state senator and representative.

“Why make laws if you’re not going to abide by them?” said Treppler of
south St. Louis County. “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”

John Loyd, who is overseeing the construction of the stadium for the
Cardinals, did not return phone calls Tuesday.

Bill Dewitt III, senior vice president with the Cardinals, said he was not
aware of the issue but asserted that the number of women’s facilities was
far better at the new stadium than at the old.

The old stadium had 54 public restrooms while the new stadium – despite its
smaller size – will have 77, according to figures provided by HOK and the
Fleishmann Hillard public relations firm. In all, the new Busch will have
32 public restrooms for women, 31 for men and 14 family bathrooms. The
total does not include unisex bathrooms in each of 30 suites on the field
level and in 33 suites on the mezzanine level. Also not included are
several bathrooms on the service level that are not open to the public.

Smith, the city operations manager, said that while the city does not
enforce the state statute, it has determined that the stadium is in
compliance with – “and actually exceeds” – the minimum requirements of the
National Standard Plumbing Code. The code says the minimum required toilets
shall be the same for each sex.

But Smith said the code also allows for up to half of the required number
of fixtures for men to be urinals. Because urinals take up less space than
toilets in stalls, there is more room for fixtures in men’s rooms,
explained Dennis Laflen, a senior vice president with HOK in St. Louis.
Overall, Laflen said, the new stadium is “above and beyond” in terms of its
bathroom offerings.

Figures provided by the city and HOK suggest the stadium may have some 300
toilets and urinals more than are required by the plumbing code.

Missouri isn’t the only state or jurisdiction to enact a potty parity law.
Illinois’ Equitable Restrooms Act requires that the number of fixtures for
men and women be calculated based on a venue’s maximum occupancy.

Some places – New York City among them – require twice as many places for
women to relieve themselves in stadiums, theaters and other venues. The
reason? Studies have shown that women, because they have different needs,
spend twice as much time in restrooms as men. That translates into longer
lines … and more missed innings, concert acts, etc.

Potty parity does not appear to be an issue for St. Louis’ Edward Jones
Dome, which also was designed by HOK and was built before the state’s potty
parity law went into effect. HOK Sport has built or is building 14 baseball
stadiums and has renovated or is renovating an additional four.

Mary Hendron, spokeswoman for the St. Louis Convention and Visitors
Commission, said the Dome has 366 fixtures specifically for men and 366 for
women. The numbers do not include toilets in six family bathrooms.

The Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri
at St. Louis campus is less generous toward its male patrons. The facility
has 45 toilets for women and 22 toilets and urinals for men, said Frank
Kochin, director of facility services for UMSL.

Tammy Cavender, spokeswoman with the Missouri Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations, said the department’s Human Rights Commission is in
charge of investigating complaints alleging gender discrimination involving
public accommodations.

She said she knows of no such complaints against Busch or any similar
facilities.

Such a complaint may be what it takes to achieve what Treppler argued for
more than a decade ago, the former lawmaker said.

“The women ought to have facilities as good as the men’s,” she said.

[]eholland@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8259[]

Great job guys… Thank for you work…