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Report Finds MA Drivers Are Risk Taking Drivers SouthBostonTODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door FEBRUARY 26, 2015: Vol.3 Issue 11 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE Report Finds WWW.SOUTHBOSTONTODAY.COM MA Drivers This Week’s Poll Are Risk On Page 2 Taking Drivers South Boston Today SOUTH BOSTON TODAY By Andy Metzger –State House News assachusetts drivers are more likely to have sped on a Mhighway recently or blown @SBostonToday through a red traffic light than their peers Go to our South Boston Today around the country on average, according page to view online content. to a new AAA Foundation for Traffic Make sure you like & share Safety report. 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To reserve your ride call us at 617-268-4110 or reserve online at SouthieShuttle.com 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com February 26, 2015 EDITORIAL SOUTH BOSTON TODAY break in the middle of the wilderness. By Staff By their very nature all construction hat is the projects are “temporary”. Once the excuse this project is finished, the job is too. time? For years The workers move on to the next the Keystone “temporary” project. Pipeline has The pipeline would reduce our Wbeen prevented by the President for foreign oil import over 17% - almost two main stated reasons. One is the one fifth of our country’s total need. alleged environmental damage its Not to mention it would reduce our construction and possible spillage involvement in foreign entanglements could cause. The other reason is that of propping up oil producing the tens of thousands of jobs it would undemocratic regimes. Maybe even create are “temporary”. reduce the hate directed toward Recently, the Department of the America. Interior dropped its opposition and Building the pipeline is good for now supports the pipeline, primarily America and the world. The unions because tanker train accidents average support it. The House and Senate, 10 a year creating ecological and with bi-partisan agreement, support it. economic disasters near populated Yet the President has vetoed it. areas that dwarf any potential pipeline What’s the excuse this time? “REAL PATRIOTISM IS THE WILLINGNESS TO CHALLENGE THE GOVERNMENT WHEN IT IS WRONG” - RON PAUL This Week’s Poll Should the 48 hour space- saver rule be enforced given the unprecedented nature of this year’s snowfall. 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As we’ve said here before, the same ideology and have similar Shock, outrage and venom were the Saturday, March 7th. As was reported Hollywood hates pro-American, pro- afterlife goals. As wacky as these jobs response from the liberal sector and in South Boston Today, friend and military movies and they are not too program statements were, you would the mainstream press. Oh, and let’s neighbor Rick Coyne will turn 50 happy with Clint Eastwood either. But think that the White House would jump not forget that old standby – he must years old in a few days and in honor none of that matters. The American to distance themselves from them. But be a racist. But Giuliani simply and of his late mother, Barbie Coyne, will people made their feelings known as they didn’t. So what does that tell us publically said what millions already run 50 miles to raise money for two millions saw the film despite all the about this administration other than are convinced is the truth. As the former of her favorite charities. All proceeds negative attacks by the lefties in the they are even weaker and more naïve mayor correctly pointed out, Obama from donations and sponsorships press urging people not to see it. So than most people already thought? was brought up by Communists in will go directly to the South Boston who needs the Academy Awards? And now a comment on the his youth, kept company and received Special Kids and Adults Program In what Rush Limbaugh called statements made by former New York funding from domestic terrorists like and to St. Jude’s Hospital. If you’d something out of a ‘Saturday Night mayor Rudy Giuliani when he said, CONTINUED ON page 4 like to donate or be a sponsor for Live’ TV show skit, millions of this good cause you can go online at Americans listened in stunned www.gofundme.com/12b4mg or send disbelief as US State Department checks to the Mt. Washington Bank, and Administration spokesperson 708 E. Broadway, South Boston, Marie Harf said we should create jobs 02127 payable to Rick’s 50 for 50. programs for members of ISIS so Yes, it got cold again. But, we they will change their terrorist ways. did have last Sunday when the mild And John Kerry agreed. This, among breeze kicked in and the sun was many other reasons is why ISIS does shining brightly and it actually caused not fear or respect this country. As some of our local ‘glaciers’ to begin they behead, burn alive, blow up and receding. With all of that short term massacre Christians, Jews, women melting taking place, the smiles and children, our response is to find among some soon turned to concern them employment? Harf, looking as a few people started wondering if and sounding like a blonde, ditsy, they should trade their snow blowers space shot, and refugee from Harvard and shovels in for rowboats, life rafts Square, then implied that her critics are and canoes. If we get a few more days just not smart enough to see her logic. like that, our local streets just might With this fantasyland mentality, is resemble rapidly flowing rivers. But, it any wonder that ISIS continues to we’ll take it. advance and grow? What kind of jobs The media hyped last Sunday’s could we offer them? It would have Academy Awards/Oscars like their to be careers that would tap into their very existence depended on it. Still, skills. Some suggestions: Explosives most Americans did not watch. technicians, surgeons specializing in Personally, I never watch. It has removal of body parts from the neck up, pretty much turned into a circus for pyromania consultants etc. Knowing the ego driven Hollywood air heads this White House, and judging by past to give each other awards and then actions and rhetoric, all jobs would scold the public with their off the wall come with free healthcare, food stamps, political sermons. And it came as no discount college tuition and a housing surprise to most that the top grossing allowance. After all, what was good 4 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com February 26, 2015 Window Into The State House Window Into The State House provides our readers a synopsis of important issues of interest, past and current, that are being proposed, debated or acted upon by the Massachusetts Legislature. Many issues that are not related to local city government services are acted upon and have a direct impact on daily life. They are tax policy, transportation infrastructure, judicial appointments, social services and health, as well as higher education. We will excerpt reports from the gavel-to-gavel coverage of House and Senate sessions by news sources focused on this important aspect of our lives. These sources include a look ahead at the coming week in state government and summaries and analyses of the past week, re-caps of a range of state government activity, as well as links to other news.
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