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VOL. 117 - NO. 12 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MARCH 22, 2013 $.30 A COPY Long Awaited Downtown School at 585 Commercial Street Cheered by Local Officials and Families by Matt Conti It was a celebratory mood Boston Public Schools will at Friday’s official an- temporarily use the space nouncement by Mayor Tom for the Eliot K-8 Innovation Menino that the City of Bos- School while that school is ton is acquiring the North expanded into the former End / Waterfront property at North Bennet Street School 585 Commercial Street to be properties. Upon completion renovated for a new K-8 pub- and pending School Commit- lic school in Downtown Bos- tee approval, the school will ton. Since the news came accommodate more than out yesterday, it was dis- 500 students in grades K-8. closed that the City’s pur- After the Eliot properties chase price is $12.85 mil- are renovated, the new K-8 lion for the space formerly school is expected to open in occupied by Mitt Romney’s September 2016. Design for presidential campaign and the new downtown school Roche Bobois furniture will begin in Fall 2013, with store. construction expected to be- The general footprint of the gin in June 2015. The Com- property will remain the mercial Street facility will be Mayor Thomas Menino announces the acquisition of 585 Commercial Street for a same, according to city offi- used over the next two years new Downtown school surrounded by BPS children. cials, but the entire interior as swing space for the Eliot (Photo by Matt Conti) will be renovated to school K-8 School, as that school is standards. The attached expanded to the North downtown families who have work to improve our entire garten (K2) seats for this fall. parking lot will be a drop-off Bennett Street School at 37- been very patient as we’ve Boston Public Schools sys- This year, 289 more families space and allow for school- 39 North Bennet St. and 48- worked to find a solution that tem, where more parents requested a K2 seat during related traffic to stay off 52 Tileston St. in the North would allow their children to are choosing to send their the first round of registration crowded Commercial Street, End. Eight classrooms and attend a Boston Public children every year.” as compared to last year. especially during events and public space will serve Eliot School close to home,” Boston Public Schools to- The location offers direct funerals at the Boston students in grades 5-8 Mayor Menino said. “Today’s day also said today that it is access to the Harborwalk, a Harborside Home across the through June 2015. announcement marks an- seeing an 8% increase in street. “It’s a great day for our other step forward as we students requesting Kinder- (Continued on Page 3) th News Briefs The 113 Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade Irish eyes were smiling by Sal Giarratani when the 113th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade took place on Sunday, Inquiring Minds Want to Know … March 17th throughout the I often get inquiries about just what kind of streets of South Boston. conservative I am since I sometimes hold views Thousands upon thousands seemingly so liberal to some out there. When it of revelers were in atten- comes to the Constitution I am a constitutional dance donning their green liberal, by which I mean that the protections of attire despite the cool tem- that document and the Bill of Rights within goes peratures of the day. for all including not just victims but those There were plenty of charged but not convicted of crimes. Once in the colorful floats, marching police academy, the class instructor wanted to bands, politicians, police, know if I was an ACLU lawyer as I disagreed with firefighters, veterans, Star some of his actions. I responded that I believed Wars characters, clowns, in the Constitution and do not think anyone horses, step dancers, bag should be tearing it apart for any reason. I be- pipers and so much more. lieve in small government and individual liberty A good time was had by all for all. I do not believe America needs to become in attendance. a socialist democracy like Europe suffers going bankrupt seemingly second by second and na- tion by nation. Government is our business. It will be as good as we demand and as bad as we allow. Too many citizens today are going AWOL on their civic duty. We behave like helpless lambs in a nation of sheep. Our founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves with all this. When I travel down to Texas, that state is so Red they call me an eastern liberal. Even in Austin which is a Blue city, I still am viewed as kind of liberal, it all depends on geography I guess. I like keeping people guessing. It makes everyone think more. “Don’t Let This Happen to You” The above lyric is taken from Charlie on the MTA by the Kingston Trio back around the time The 2013 St. Patrick’s Day Parade drew thousands upon I was being born. Poor Charlie stuck on the thousands of spectators to this annual celebration (Continued on Page 15) throughout the streets of South Boston. (Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, MARCH 22, 2013 Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Res Publica Turiello Nostra by David Trumbull A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our ancestry...our lineage...our roots. Here We Go Again “Gentlemen, what ails the longer than 1940 for victory. ism was rejected by party GEORGE WASHINGTON Republican Party is not the I realize that, and yet maybe leaders. The result was four BIRTH DATE: fact that it is in the minor- not. This country of ours is decades of Democratic Party February 22, 1732 ity. It has been in the minor- given to sweeping tides of hegemony with the Repub- DEATH DATE: ity before. What ails it is a emotionalism. Who would lican response to the pre- December 14, 1799 certain sort of yielding to have believed in 1932 or vailing liberalism being a PLACE OF BIRTH: opportunism, a yielding to 1928 that in four years the faint, me too. Westmoreland County, VA that element within the country would somersault After the 2008 defeat of lib- PLACE OF DEATH: party clamoring for liberal- into the Democratic col- eral RINO (“Republican-In- Mount Vernon, VA ization, clamoring to the umn? We like to boast of Name-Only”) John McCain, WIFE: Martha Republican Party to throw the fact that we are a great the party establishment PRESIDENT: away the birthright of con- practical people. Of course forced 2002 ultra liberal, 1789-1797 servatism and enter the lists we are practical. We are also switched to 2008 moderate, against the radical Demo- an emotional people, a vola- switched to 2012 pseudo- The first CEO was our George Washington, cratic Party on the Demo- tile people. These surges conservative Mitt Romney With a military record to match anyone; cratic Party’s side. To me that do come. If the Republican on the Republican votes. He was a good leader, resourceful and stern, is utter nonsense. There Party will keep the faith and Now there is much hand A dependable force which all would soon learn. just isn’t room in this coun- be prepared, it will be ready wringing and finger point- Served two terms at the top, but turned down a third, try of ours for two major radi- when the surge comes to ing in Washington. And, as Returned to Mount Vernon to live free as a bird; cal parties, and all of us reap the harvest.” always after the moderates Spent most of his time learning to sit still, know that the Democratic J. Fred Essary, Washing- and liberals in the Republi- For that famous picture on our one dollar bill. Party now has a lien upon ton correspondent of the Bal- can Party lose, it’s the con- When George was young he was all pleasure bent, whatever radicalism there is timore Sun, speaking in Prov- servatives who get blamed. Married a rich widow and away they both went; in public life. idence, R.I. at the 83rd Annual As Rush Limbaugh said Took his honeymoon down at old Valley Forge, “No, I think the Republi- Meeting of the National recently: The GOP’s real prob- Where the neighbors all said, “She’s here by George.” can party could return to Association of Cotton Man- lem is simple. The Republi- We all know Martha as the General’s wife, power if it would go back first ufacturers, October 7, 1937. can Party lost because it’s She mothered four children in her earlier life; to its old moorings, return to Substitute “2012” for “1940” not conservative ... they Now don’t get excited, what she did was OK, the old faith, become the and “2004 or 2000” for “1932 kicked the Tea Party out, She was wed to Dan Custis, before he passed away. champion, the unblushing or 1928” and Mr. Essary’s they try to deemphasize the defender of the great conser- remarks could be delivered Tea Party, don’t use it ... They She added substantially to George’s estate, vative thought in American today. Unfortunately, his call did not use the asset that the Seventeen thousand acres made her a great mate; life. It may have to wait for a return to conservat- Tea Party provided them.” He jogged it each morning shouting, “How happy am I,” But who was to know he’d be the first one to die.