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VOL. 124 - NO. 38 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 $.35 A COPY “A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” — Unknown (Photos by Al Skinner) Temporary Outdoor Dining News Briefs Extended to December 1st by Sal Giarratani by NorthEndWaterfront.com The City of Boston has extended the Temporary Outdoor Dining Program on What is Courage? public sidewalks and parking lanes until Courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear, December 1, 2020. uncertainty, intimidation, or diffi culty. It is what we see Mayor Walsh has announced the program in fi rst responders and frontline workers. It means hav- will be extended past its original closure date of ing grit and determination to do what needs to be done. October 31st to better support restaurants during Rayla Campbell the ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency. Still Fighting for Ballot Access This extension applies to outdoor dining The September 1st Primary Election has been history on both public and private property. The for a while now, but for Republican write-in candi- Temporary Outdoor Dining Program on private date Rayla Campbell running for U.S. Congress in property (i.e. outdoor dining spaces that do not District 7, that election is still a current event. extend onto public sidewalks and parking lanes) Campbell is now suing the state to secure a spot in has been extended for the duration of the ongo- the November ballot, which keeps creeping up on us. ing COVID-19 related public health emergency. She ran a write-in campaign, received more than 1,200 Restaurants utilizing public property may con- fi nd a way to help restaurants struggling to sur- write in votes in the primary to take on U.S. Rep. Ayanna tinue the approved use of those spaces until vive during the COVID-19 shutdown. The North Presley in the 7th Congressional District according to December 1, 2020, weather permitting or until End became a well-known location for outdoor State Secretary William Galvin’s Offi ce. further notice or until the Board issues further dining in the summer months, with much of They say she needed 2,000 write-ins to gain ballot guidance. Hanover and Salem Streets, as well as some side status, but she said the state Supreme Judicial Court Requests for further extensions of this use streets, fi lled with tables and even some outdoor this past April slashed the number of signatures needed shall be considered on a case by case basis dining decor. due to the coronavirus epidemic in half, which she in the coming weeks and months. In addition, Licensees interested in the Temporary Outdoor contends she did just that with her 1,200 signatures application fees will be waived for businesses that Dining Program that have not previously applied the state said she garnished. apply for outdoor propane heaters at: https:// may do so via the: online application process. If As Rayla Campbell said, “They’re just trying to keep www.boston.gov/departments/fi re-prevention/ businesses need support through this process, me off the ballot and we’re not going to back down.” fi re-forms-permits-applications-and-fees. please email: [email protected] for technical You go Girl! Temporary “cafe zones” began appearing assistance. A list of restaurants with outdoor Where’s Andy Rooney When You Need Him? throughout Boston in June as the City worked to dining is available on boston.gov. Remember Andy Rooney’s 10-minute segment at the end of 60 Minutes every Sunday evening? He got away with so much and was never censored by CBS either. In THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFIC today’s politically correct world, CBS wouldn’t give him 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON (Continued on Page 10) Tuesdays 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM and Thursdays 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 Res Publica by David Trumbull President Donald J. Trump Delivers for American Workers CUPID AND PSYCHE Trump pulled the U.S. out of a written report on the many the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership ways that China was not living of night. Consequently, one (TPP). That deal would have up to its WTO commitments evening while Cupid slept she destroyed millions of U.S. jobs. and how that was harming the went close to him with a lamp, I understand why Obama pur- U.S. economy. And year after and was amazed to behold the sued it. The idea was that the year, the U.S. did nothing about most handsome of the gods. In loss of millions of Americans it. Trump bypassed congress the excitement of joy and fear jobs was an acceptable cost of and invoked Section 301 of the that followed, a drop of the linking the U.S. and Vietnam Trade Act of 1974 to unilaterally lamp’s hot oil fell upon Cupid. to provide an offset to China’s impose a 25% tariff on most He quickly awakened, cen- hegemony in East Asia. I didn’t goods from China. sured her for her action, and believe that it would work that Almost all my clients are disappeared. way, and the fact that China paying that tariff. They have Her happiness now gone, was rapidly building new facto- no choice. China’s illegal trade Psyche wandered from temple ries in Vietnam in anticipation practices have put out of busi- to temple inquiring about her of TPP is evidence, at least to ness entire industries in all lover, eventually arriving at me, that I was right. TPP was other countries. Almost all of the palace of Venus. Her mis- not going to rebalance power in these companies paying the ery really began when Venus East Asia and those millions of tariff say that Trump is doing retained her, treated her as a American jobs would have been what must be done because just slave, and imposed the most lost with nothing gained. as all their suppliers outside diffi cult and humiliating labors Trump vowed to renegotiate of China have been put out of upon her. It is said that Psyche NAFTA and there was outcry business by China, they believe could have not have continued on the right and left than that that, without this strong action, to exist under her suffering, had was an outrageous thing. The they would be the next targeted not Cupid, who still secretly fact is that we have renegotiated by China for elimination. Now, loved her, invisibly comforted individual provisions in NAFTA during the pandemic, Trump is and assisted her in those toils. hundreds of times (I wrote some keeping these U.S. companies With this aid, Psyche finally of those proposals that ended afl oat by invoking the Defense succeeded in overcoming the up being accepted by the three Production Act. hatred of Venus. Through the nations), Trump merely set out I also have clients in the New intervention of the gods, Psyche to do a more thorough version England lobster industry who was granted immortality, and of what we had been doing were at a disadvantage rela- was united with Cupid forever. piece-meal all along. NAFTA is tive to Canadian lobster men In works of art, Psyche is Psyche and Amor, also known as Psyche Receiving Cupid’s 25 years old, in our more recent because Canadian lobster enter shown as a beautiful maiden First Kiss (1798), by François Gérard: a symbolic butterfl y agreements, we learnt from the the EU duty-free while U.S. with the wings of a butterfl y. hovers over Psyche in a moment of innocence poised before mistakes of NAFTA and created lobster are subject to import Various scenes show her with sexual awakening. better agreements, Trump took duty. Trump got the EU to give Cupid in different situations the lessons learnt and went U.S. lobster’s duty-free parity Psyche was a maiden who ample opportunity to observe that are implied in the foregoing back to Canada and Mexico and with Canadian, without the personified the human soul. the ridiculous doings of man- story or as is visualized by any got us a better agreement. Of U.S. making any significant Her story was beautifully told kind, including the activities of particular artist. course, the new agreement had trade concessions to the EU. back in the second century Cupid and Psyche. Throughout NEXT WEEK: to go to congress for approval, On September 14th, the Trump A.D. by Lucius Apuleius, more this story, the moral conditions Giulio Romano vs. Raphael commonly known as Apuleius. of the time were also depicted which it got, because it was administration published notice evident to everyone that Trump of a new $527 million seafood He was born in Africa, into a with much humor. LEGAL NOTICE wealthy family, and this per- The story tells us that Psyche, got us a better deal. trade relief program that will The old NAFTA had problems, pay licensed fi shermen up to mitted him to travel to Athens the youngest of a king’s three Commonwealth of Massachusetts where he spent a considerable daughters was so beautiful The Trial Court but nothing in comparison to $250,000 to offset sales lost amount of time studying the that even Venus was envious Middlesex Probate and Family Court the damage that China was due to China’s tariffs on U.S. 208 Cambridge Street inflicting on the U.S. When seafood. work of Plato. Apuleius also and jealous. Because of this Cambridge, MA 02141 lived in Rome for many years fol- jealousy, Venus ordered Cupid (617) 768-5800 China entered the WTO at the Prior to the election, I was end of 2001, it got all the ben- skeptical about Trump.