Express Scripts, Walgreens have deal
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FRIDAY • 07.20.2012 • $1.00
Feud leaves house divided Express Judge rules man violated protection order, restricts attendance at one church.
Scripts, Walgreens have deal In network • Walgreens to fill prescriptions starting Sept. 15. Chain’s customers • Some lost for good, analyst says. BY JIM DOYLE [email protected] > 314-340-8372
JOHNNY ANDREWS • [email protected]
The Rev. Carlos Bohorquez distributes Holy Communion to Joseph Haegele at St. Gertrude Church in Grantfork on Sunday. Bohorquez didn’t protest a ruling restricting where Haegele attends church because the parishoner has several options. BY TIM TOWNSEND • [email protected] > 314-340-8221
MARINE • Joseph Haegele remembers going to the church across the road from his grandparents’ house on Windmill Street in this farm town in 1956, when he was 5 years old. Haegele has attended other Catholic churches in the area. But St. Elizabeth’s remains special to the former General Chemical employee and his wife, Lynn. The annual church picnic has been part of family tradition for decades. And after their 25-year-old son died of a brain tumor 15 years ago,
Haegele said, the couple adopted a priest’s flower garden behind St. Elizabeth’s rectory as a memorial. But a Madison County Circuit judge has ruled that Haegele can worship at St. Elizabeth’s “on the last weekend of each month only.” Since then, Haegele has gone to Mass at St. Elizabeth’s only when the court allows it. Bailey also banned him from attending St. Elizabeth’s annual “family style chicken dinner” picnic, even though it falls this year on the final weekend
of July. What led to Judge Duane Bailey’s order was a decade-long tale involving a family feud over hundreds of acres of farmland that split 11 Haegele siblings into two factions. Accusations along the way have included notary fraud, harassment and stalking. After years in which various courts have attempted to broker peace, Bailey ruled in April that one faction of
After a year-long dispute, Express Scripts and Walgreens announced Thursday that they have struck a new pharmacy network deal. Beginning Sept. 15, Walgreens stores will once again fill prescriptions at “in-network” rates for customers of Express Scripts Holding Co., which is based in north St. Louis County and manages the pharmacy benefit for employers’ health insurance plans. Wall Street analysts said that the new contract — to start 81⁄2 months after the companies terminated their last contract — will enable Express Scripts to focus on winning new business and integrating its recent acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, a larger rival, into the company. Express Scripts, now the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager, and Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, had publicly bickered since June 2011 when the Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co. announced that it was breaking off contract talks. At that time, WalMeeting of greens complained that the meds Express Scripts was trying to force belowaverage reimbursements for prescriptions. See DEAL • Page A10
See CHURCH • Page A10
SINCE THE BREAKUP
Life’s memories cloud Pace project
Longtime Hadley Township resident says she won’t sell her property to developer. BY MARGARET GILLERMAN • [email protected] > 314-725-6758
RICHMOND HEIGHTS • Alice McGee
likes to read her Bible every day in the kitchen of the house she has lived in for the last half century. Her life is bound up in her house and her memories: the ruffly pink and white curtains she made for the kitchen, her garden and tidy yard out back, and dozens and dozens of photographs of six generations of her family. “I’m a great dreamer and I dreamed about the place, this house, before we moved here,” McGee, 92, said Thursday in an interview in her living room. Now, she is being asked to move to make way for the Hadley Township development, and she’s mincing no words about her feelings on that subject. McGee on Wednesday night told the mayor, city manager, developer and a crowd of about 80 neighbors at a meeting on the development that she had no intention now of budging. Whether her opposition will remain so strong and whether she can block the entire $125 million retail project is unclear — but her sentiments are clear. “I won’t sell,” McGee said Wednesday. “I keep praying to God for you to leave us alone. ... I want to live there
SOURCES: Regulatory filings, company reports, Bloomberg
Millions lost as U.S. cancels meeting here CHRISTIAN GOODEN • [email protected]
Alice McGee, 92, who has lived in Hadley Township for nearly 50 years, is adamant about not selling to Pace Properties, one of the latest developers with rights to redevelop sections of the historic Richmond Heights neighborhood. While sitting in the living room Thursday of her home on Banneker Avenue, she said: “I’m comfortable here. And I don’t want to leave my home.”
‘I KEEP PRAYING TO GOD FOR YOU TO LEAVE US ALONE. I WANT TO LIVE THERE UNTIL GOD TAKES ME.’ Richmond Heights resident Alice McGee
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Federal agency had reserved nearly 2,500 hotel rooms for convention. BY TIM LOGAN [email protected] > 314-340-8291
Sometimes, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. That was the case this week, when a scandalplagued federal agency — still reeling from revelations about a lavish conference in Sin City — pulled the plug on a coming gathering here in the Gateway City. Now 10 downtown hotels are left with a bunch of empty rooms and wondering if they will ever get paid. The General Services Adminitration, which manages nuts-and-bolts federal purchasing, told St. Louis convention officials this week that it is canceling a big energy trade show scheduled for America’s Center next month. It would have filled nearly 2,500 hotel rooms downtown for four nights, generating an estimated $6 million in hotel and convention spending, plus cab rides, meals and more. Now? Nothing. “It’s impossible to fill almost 2,500 hotel rooms See CONFERENCE • Page A10
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Express Scripts • Acquired Medco Health Solutions — becoming the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager. • Seen its share price rise by 13 percent in the past year, despite losing its contract with the nation’s largest drug store chain. Walgreens • Lost pharmacy customers to rival CVS Caremark Corp. and others. • Seen retail pharmacy sales fall 11 percent in June 2012. • Seen its share price fall 18 percent in the past year.
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FRIDAY • 07.20.2012 • $1.00
Feud leaves house divided Express Judge rules man violated protection order, restricts attendance at one church.
Scripts, Walgreens have deal In network • Walgreens to fill prescriptions starting Sept. 15. Chain’s customers • Some lost for good, analyst says. BY JIM DOYLE [email protected] > 314-340-8372
JOHNNY ANDREWS • [email protected]
The Rev. Carlos Bohorquez distributes Holy Communion to Joseph Haegele at St. Gertrude Church in Grantfork on Sunday. Bohorquez didn’t protest a ruling restricting where Haegele attends church because the parishoner has several options. BY TIM TOWNSEND • [email protected] > 314-340-8221
MARINE • Joseph Haegele remembers going to the church across the road from his grandparents’ house on Windmill Street in this farm town in 1956, when he was 5 years old. Haegele has attended other Catholic churches in the area. But St. Elizabeth’s remains special to the former General Chemical employee and his wife, Lynn. The annual church picnic has been part of family tradition for decades. And after their 25-year-old son died of a brain tumor 15 years ago,
Haegele said, the couple adopted a priest’s flower garden behind St. Elizabeth’s rectory as a memorial. But a Madison County Circuit judge has ruled that Haegele can worship at St. Elizabeth’s “on the last weekend of each month only.” Since then, Haegele has gone to Mass at St. Elizabeth’s only when the court allows it. Bailey also banned him from attending St. Elizabeth’s annual “family style chicken dinner” picnic, even though it falls this year on the final weekend
of July. What led to Judge Duane Bailey’s order was a decade-long tale involving a family feud over hundreds of acres of farmland that split 11 Haegele siblings into two factions. Accusations along the way have included notary fraud, harassment and stalking. After years in which various courts have attempted to broker peace, Bailey ruled in April that one faction of
After a year-long dispute, Express Scripts and Walgreens announced Thursday that they have struck a new pharmacy network deal. Beginning Sept. 15, Walgreens stores will once again fill prescriptions at “in-network” rates for customers of Express Scripts Holding Co., which is based in north St. Louis County and manages the pharmacy benefit for employers’ health insurance plans. Wall Street analysts said that the new contract — to start 81⁄2 months after the companies terminated their last contract — will enable Express Scripts to focus on winning new business and integrating its recent acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, a larger rival, into the company. Express Scripts, now the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager, and Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, had publicly bickered since June 2011 when the Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreen Co. announced that it was breaking off contract talks. At that time, WalMeeting of greens complained that the meds Express Scripts was trying to force belowaverage reimbursements for prescriptions. See DEAL • Page A10
See CHURCH • Page A10
SINCE THE BREAKUP
Life’s memories cloud Pace project
Longtime Hadley Township resident says she won’t sell her property to developer. BY MARGARET GILLERMAN • [email protected] > 314-725-6758
RICHMOND HEIGHTS • Alice McGee
likes to read her Bible every day in the kitchen of the house she has lived in for the last half century. Her life is bound up in her house and her memories: the ruffly pink and white curtains she made for the kitchen, her garden and tidy yard out back, and dozens and dozens of photographs of six generations of her family. “I’m a great dreamer and I dreamed about the place, this house, before we moved here,” McGee, 92, said Thursday in an interview in her living room. Now, she is being asked to move to make way for the Hadley Township development, and she’s mincing no words about her feelings on that subject. McGee on Wednesday night told the mayor, city manager, developer and a crowd of about 80 neighbors at a meeting on the development that she had no intention now of budging. Whether her opposition will remain so strong and whether she can block the entire $125 million retail project is unclear — but her sentiments are clear. “I won’t sell,” McGee said Wednesday. “I keep praying to God for you to leave us alone. ... I want to live there
SOURCES: Regulatory filings, company reports, Bloomberg
Millions lost as U.S. cancels meeting here CHRISTIAN GOODEN • [email protected]
Alice McGee, 92, who has lived in Hadley Township for nearly 50 years, is adamant about not selling to Pace Properties, one of the latest developers with rights to redevelop sections of the historic Richmond Heights neighborhood. While sitting in the living room Thursday of her home on Banneker Avenue, she said: “I’m comfortable here. And I don’t want to leave my home.”
‘I KEEP PRAYING TO GOD FOR YOU TO LEAVE US ALONE. I WANT TO LIVE THERE UNTIL GOD TAKES ME.’ Richmond Heights resident Alice McGee
See DEVELOPMENT • Page A2
Only $20 for $40 worth of food & drinks at Sam’s Steakhouse SEE AD ON PAGE A2
Federal agency had reserved nearly 2,500 hotel rooms for convention. BY TIM LOGAN [email protected] > 314-340-8291
Sometimes, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. That was the case this week, when a scandalplagued federal agency — still reeling from revelations about a lavish conference in Sin City — pulled the plug on a coming gathering here in the Gateway City. Now 10 downtown hotels are left with a bunch of empty rooms and wondering if they will ever get paid. The General Services Adminitration, which manages nuts-and-bolts federal purchasing, told St. Louis convention officials this week that it is canceling a big energy trade show scheduled for America’s Center next month. It would have filled nearly 2,500 hotel rooms downtown for four nights, generating an estimated $6 million in hotel and convention spending, plus cab rides, meals and more. Now? Nothing. “It’s impossible to fill almost 2,500 hotel rooms See CONFERENCE • Page A10
NEW BUSINESSES BRING NEW BUZZ
SIGN UP TODAY AT STLTODAY.COM/TODAYSDEAL
Express Scripts • Acquired Medco Health Solutions — becoming the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager. • Seen its share price rise by 13 percent in the past year, despite losing its contract with the nation’s largest drug store chain. Walgreens • Lost pharmacy customers to rival CVS Caremark Corp. and others. • Seen retail pharmacy sales fall 11 percent in June 2012. • Seen its share price fall 18 percent in the past year.
Restaurants, bars join old favorites in a bustling downtown. GO!
GSA spent $268,732 on awards ceremony. A19
WE AT HER • TO DAY 94 ° • TO NIGHT 85° • TO MORROW 96° • FO RECAST A 2 0 STLtoday.com/birdsnest •
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