VOL. 113 - NO. 50 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 11, 2009 $.30 A COPY Coakley Brown to Meet on Luminarias Light Up East Boston Greenway January 19th Election for United States Senate by Sal Giarratani Attorney General Senator Martha Coakley (D) Scott Brown (R) On Tuesday, December 8th, Massachusetts voters in low numbers turned out to pick candidates for the January 19, 2010 US Senate Special Election. Democrats chose Attor- ney General Martha Coakley and Republicans picked State Zumix Carolers, volunteers of Boston Natural Areas Network and participants pose in Senator Scott Brown. front of the East Boston YMCA. Turnout was under 50% and in the Democratic race Coakley received 47% of the vote, with US Representative The East Boston Greenway was lit up on the crowd and participants were treated to Michael Capuano in second place with 28%. Alan Khazei Sunday, December 6, 2009 in celebration cookies and hot chocolate, courtesy of had 13th percent and Steve Pagliuca last with 12%. of the holiday season. Over 1000 Celeste Myers Business and Event Concepts On the Republican side, it was Brown in a landslide luminarias, candles set in weighted paper and Jonquille’s Diner, 275 Lee Burbank primary win over businessman Jack E. Robinson. Brown bags created by community volunteers, lit Hwy, Revere, MA. The event was hosted by took 89% of the vote to Brown’s 11%. up the greenway. Zumix carolers serenaded Boston Natural Areas Network. News Briefs Mayor’s Column by Sal Giarratani by Thomas M. Menino, Mayor, City of Boston New Candidate for Senate On the evening of my re-election last create new partnerships so that all of A new name out of Charlestown, lawyer Dan month, I stressed that we haven’t made our schools have the same opportunity Hill has announced for the State Senate seat history by winning a fifth term, but we for success. Education reform can’t hap- now held by embattled Senator Anthony will with what we achieve in it. I want pen without those who teach our stu- Galluccio. Charlestown has always been just a to accomplish as much in the next four dents, and renegotiating the current little bit political, huh? Anyway, Hill announced years as we have achieved in the previ- teachers contract to prioritize students his candidacy inside the Navy Yard by the ous sixteen. This type of transformative over old rules governing teacher place- Muster House. Apparently, Hill is probably a change, however, will only occur by ment will be key. Finally, we will push yuppie guy since he announced at the Muster working together. our in-district charter legislation at the House rather than in real Charlestown. I mean, We have great momentum, and we’re State House as part of a bill currently after all, he could have chosen the Bunker Hill gearing up for the next term, when we before the Legislature so that Massa- Monument or the only acceptable spot inside will take on big challenges — not just chusetts has the opportunity to compete the Yard, say, the USS Constitution. He could when it’s easy, but when it’s hard, too. for its share of $5 billion in federal Race have picked the spot in City Square where Paul We will begin a new era of innovation in to the Top funding. Revere landed in his rowboat back on April 18, the Boston Public Schools; jumpstart In the same spirit of collaboration, the 1775. Of course over the years the spot has been stalled development projects in Allston, city will work with the business com- quite movable depending on the various urban the South Boston Waterfront, and Down- munity to jumpstart stalled development planners redesigning the Square endlessly. town Crossing; make the Harbor Islands projects in Allston, the South Boston Wa- However, the Muster House? I don’t even know and the Greenway as central to our city’s terfront, and Downtown Crossing. In what it looks like. I hope a political Townie runs identity as the Boston Common and the Downtown Crossing, we have a chance for the seat not someone seemingly thinking Public Garden; and strengthen city gov- to create the city’s first Business Im- Muster House over the Warren Tavern. ernment by implementing new technol- provement District to capitalize on $1.2 ogy, rebalancing public safety services, billion in private investments that have Abierto to East Boston and pursuing consolidation where it already been made and will allow the I’ve only been in Eastie a short time but al- makes sense. area to reach its full potential. We must ready feel I’m getting some East Boston emer- Partnership is possibly most crucial in also take the crucial step of re-imagin- sion going on. I already know what “Por Favor advancing our ambitious education re- ing uses for the former site of Filene’s de no interrumpir” means. I didn’t know that form agenda. Superintendent Johnson Basement in order to animate the site in Rozzie. When it comes to dining out, Eastie recently proposed 14 of our under-per- again and strengthen the surrounding is heaven. So much ethnic food, so little time. forming schools for turnaround, but we neighborhood. It’s Still Called Shay’s Beach, also want to elevate our strongest per- We must also not be afraid to look at Isn’t It? forming schools. Just as Fidelity Invest- things differently on the South Boston Whether you call it Shea’s or Shay’s, it just ments stepped up to provide enriching Waterfront in order to attract innovative experiences for students at the Edwards (Continued on Page 13) School in Charlestown, we will seek to (Continued on Page 14) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, DECEMBER 11, 2009 Res Publica by David Trumbull … Reserved to the States Respectively, or to the People MORE STAINED GLASS December 15th is Bill of Rights Day in the Commonwealth The most beautiful stained walking the 55 miles, in- chor symbolized faith, and a of Massachusetts, set aside to memorialize the entering glass windows ever to be pro- specting the stained glass, fish was the symbol for into force, following adoption by three-fourths of the states duced are said to be in the camping overnight in the Christ. on December 15, 1791, of the first ten amendments to the Cathedral at Chartres. The church and then hiking Even the saints had their U.S. Constitution, commonly called the Bill of Rights. Inci- edifice stands on a low hill, back the next day. distinctions: St. Peter always dentally, Massachusetts was not one of the ratifying states 55 miles south of Paris, and We must be mindful of the held the keys to the gates of and only passed the amendments in a symbolic gesture in it dominates all of the other fact that during this time in Heaven; St. Paul held a 1939 at the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. buildings in the vicinity. history, it was the clerks and scroll; while St. Matthew At the time it was proposed the concept of a Bill of Rights The church spires can be scribes who were literate, held a purse. St. Catherine — not to mention the specifics of what would be in it — was seen 20 miles away. Fire de- but almost all others could was always shown with her controversial. stroyed two previous not read or write, and had to wheel of martyrdom and St. Some argued against the Constitution itself as defective churches which stood on the be told about their religion Mark was shown with his due to lack of an enumeration of the rights of the People. same site. While the church in picture form. Early Chris- lion to name just a few. Even as English colonists subject to the Crown they had was being built for the third tian art started on the walls During medieval times, enjoyed, or at least claimed, the traditional rights of time, preachers solicited of the catacombs, and gradu- people asked “What should Englishmen, including those set forth in the 1689 English gifts from all over France. ally grew into a vast lan- one do upon entering a Bill of Rights and earlier documents going back to Magna People gave money, food, or guage of symbolism, which church?” and the answer Carta of 1215. Surely as the free citizens of a republic they labor. Other churches were told stories of the Bible and usually was: 1. Take Holy ought to enjoy such an enumeration of rights. larger, higher, and more of the Lives of the Saints. Water; 2. Pray to the Al- Others argued that the Constitution was intended to pro- richly decorated, but The Creation, Flood, Annun- mighty; and 3. Read the vide only for the arrangement of the national or central Chartres is known for being ciation, Nativity, Miracles of stained glass windows. The government of the States within the Union and that an a people church, and also a Christ, The Crucifixion and windows in the medieval enumeration of citizens’ rights was unnecessary as it was pilgrim church. Students The Resurrection were re- cathedral became a spiritual the People making the Constitution and, therefore the from the “Sorbonne”, part of told many times in this man- encyclopedia to show the People retained all rights and powers not specifically granted the University of Paris, ner.