Please vote in the poll, located in the right sidebar
Today’s poll is about Metro’s smoking policy. Riders can smoke at transit centers while waiting for a MetroBus, but those riders on platforms waiting for a MetroLink light rail train can’t smoke. Transit centers are points where numerous bus routes meet, often adjacent to MetroLink stations — Civic Center & North Hanley are two examples.
The poll question is: Metro allows smoking at MetroBus Transit Centers but not on MetroLink platforms. Metro should:
The options provided, in random order, are:
Allow smoking at both
Prohibit smoking at both
Keep policy as is — smoking allowed at one but not the other
Unsure/No Opinion
The poll, as always, is on the top of the right sidebar.It’ll close at 8pm central.
Please vote in the poll, located in the right sidebar
The group Women on 20s is seeking to get the US Treasury to replace Andrew Jackson with a female by 2020 — the 100th anniversary of their right to vote:
The group’s original list of 100 names was winnowed down to 60 through informal discussion, then to 30 via a two-part survey and to 15 by a group of outsiders that included women’s history experts. The public was then able to choose their three favorites from the list of 15 candidates, which also included feminist Betty Friedan, birth control activist Margaret Sanger, women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony and conservationist Rachel Carson. (Washington Post)
The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote. So it seems fitting to commemorate that milestone by voting to elevate women to a place that is today reserved exclusively for the men who shaped American history. That place is on our paper money. And that new portrait can become a symbol of greater changes to come.
Let’s make the names of female “disrupters” — the ones who led the way and dared to think differently — as well-known as their male counterparts. In the process, maybe it will get a little easier to see the way to full political, social and economic equality for women. And hopefully it won’t take another century to realize the motto inscribed on our money: E pluribus unum, or “Out of many, one.” (WomenOn20s.org)
The poll today asks who should be on future $20 bills. I’ve included the current face, Andrew Jackson, for those who don’t want to see the $20 change. Please vote in the poll in the right sidebar but also vote for one of the four finalists at WomenOn20s.org.
Please vote in the poll, located in the right sidebar
Our federal, state, and for some of us, St. Louis City, tax returns must be postmarked no later than Wednesday. For today’s poll I thought Id ask about the St. Louis earnings tax. If you live OR work in the city you must pay 1%. Live in another state and play baseball, hockey, or football for opposing teams that play the Cardinals. Blues, Rams? You must pay 1% of the income earned in St. Louis.
Taxes are never popular — few are as controversial as our local earnings tax. So take the poll in the right sidebar — you can pick one or two answers — you can provide your own if you don’t like the choices offered.
Please vote in the poll, located in the right sidebar
Today’s poll is about perceptions so it doesn’t matter if you ride public transit daily, frequently, rarely, or never. It also doesn’t matter if you think all public transit is unsafe — today’s question is: Which mode of public transportation do you think is the safest in St. Louis? So if it helps you it can also be read as Which mode of public transportation do you think is the least unsafe in St. Louis?
The poll choices are:
Bus (MetroBus)
Light rail (MetroLink)
Tie/equal
Unsure/no answer
These will be shown in random order in the poll — located in the right sidebar.
After a little more than 3 hours into the Sunday Poll I noticed someone had just made repeated votes for two categories that minutes earlier had none — so I immediately stopped the poll. Here are the results prior to the vote tampering:
Q: What is your age?
Less than 12: 0 [0%]
12-17: 0 [0%]
18-24: 1 [1.35%
25-34: 9 [12.16%]
35-44: 4 [5.41%]
45-54: 5 [6.76%]
55-64: 2 [2.7%]
65-74: 3 [4.05%]
75+: 0 [0%]
Twenty-four votes isn’t many, but this is about what’s received by that point each Sunday. Minutes later I noticed the “Less than 12” and “75+” answers each now had 25 votes, for a total of 74. I get it — not everyone likes to disclose their age — even anonymously in 10-year categories. I don’t get sabotaging the poll.
Facebook shows me demographics of the “engaged” persons on the Facebook page. The top row is female, the bottom row male.
The early poll results show an older demographic than the engaged readers on Facebook — not surprising. In February I turned 48 — looking forward to AARP discounts in two years.
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