April 29, 2016 Vol. 120 No. 18
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VOL. 120 - NO. 18 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 29, 2016 $.35 A COPY 2016 Rental Registration is Open TRUMP HIGH-FIVES PRIMARY RESULTS The 2016 annual registration of all private rental units is now open. In accordance with the City of Boston’s Rental Registration Hillary Takes Big Three, and Inspection Ordinance, rental property owners are required to register their private rental units with the Boston Inspectional Bernie Wins Big Rhody, Does Well in Conn Services Department (ISD) each year by July 1st. by Sal Giarratani The purpose of the Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance After the votes were counted, is to ensure rental units are safe, sanitary and in compliance with Trump called himself “the pre- the Massachusetts State Sanitary Code. sumptive nominee” and said In addition, the registration program allows the department to once again that neither Cruz clearly identify landlords and ensure property owners are aware nor Kasich had a “path to of rental housing regulations. Rental property owners can register victory.” Trump says “It’s over. on-line at www.boston.gov/isd/housing or visit the Housing as far as I’m concerned, it’s Division at 1010 Massachusetts Ave. Boston Monday-Friday over.” 8:00 am-4:00 pm. where staff will be available to assist with the On the Democratic side, it registration process. was a big night for Hillary The initial registration fee is $25 per unit, and the annual Clinton as she dominated the renewal fee is $15 per unit up to a maximum of $2500 per build- Delaware, Maryland and Penn- ing, or $5,000 per complex. Owner-occupied properties with six sylvania primary vote, picking rental units are not required to pay the registration fee but are up 60, 63 and 56 percent of the Clinton’s race toward the White required to register each year. votes respectively. House in November. It is tough For questions regarding the registration process please con- Bernie Sanders did well in running against Santa Claus tact the Inspectional Services Department, Housing Division, at Big news on Republican side, the two New England states, and the Easter Bunny all at 617-635-1010, or email [email protected]. Property Donald Trump had a fi eld day receiving 47 percent of the vote once, but if anyone can stop the owners that do not have access to a computer can contact the on Tuesday, April 26th, winning in Connecticut and winning 55 politics of free stuff, it has to be Housing Division for assistance. Failure to register may result in all fi ve primary states. Winning percent of the vote in the Rhode Donald Trump. penalties and/or fi nes. Connecticut with 58 percent, Island primary, his one victory For the Democrats, it is over, For more information or questions regarding the ordinance call Delaware, 61 percent, Mary- of the night. it is Hillary. But for the Republi- 617-635-1010 or log onto www.cityofboston.gov. land, 55 percent, Pennsylvania, Clinton addressed her sup- cans, it will go all the way down 57 percent, and Rhode Island porters at the Philadelphia Con- to Cleveland this summer before 64 percent. vention Center, telling them, the Republican insiders fi nally News Briefs The Double Teaming strategy “With your help, we’re going to relent and crown Trump. by Ted Cruz and John Kasich come back to Philadelphia for Many Democrats and Re- by Sal Giarratani obviously was a stealth cam- the Democratic National Con- publicans alike expect a great paign which never materialized, vention with the most votes and presidential race between those “Ready for Hillary” voters and It’s Not Just About a Restaurant as both of Trump’s last remain- most pledged delegates.” ing opponents did quite poorly. Next week’s Indiana Primary those “Make America Great Recently, I read a quote by Edgar Bronfman, Jr., in Cruz finished second in the (May 3rd) with 57 delegates at Again” Trumpster voters. This Town & Country about the Four Seasons Restaurant Penn State, racking up a total stake will either make or break year reminds me a lot of Hubert that went, “It’s like a club, except nobody knows the of 22 percent. The number two the new Kasich/Cruz Alliance. If Humphrey-Richard Nixon in rules … There’s a combination of camaraderie, com- in the other four states was Ka- the duet can’t stop Trump there, 1968 or Ronald Reagan-Jimmy petition, jealousy, and admiration. A lot of ‘Whose sich, whose best showing was in they can’t stop him. I agree with Carter in 1980. zucchini is bigger than whose zucchini?’ ” Connecticut where he received Howie Carr that Trump has the The end is near: Tuesday, Sounds pretty much like the Republican National 29 percent. best chance of stopping Hillary November 8, 2016. Committee as it prepares for the Gunfi ght at the OK Corral this summer in Cleveland, doesn’t it? Bathroom Battles Silly Donald Trump can’t get it right no matter what he says. I agreed with Trump when he said that North Carolina should have just let things alone. I also E N D I M agree this whole political uproar is mostly about a L A non-solution to a non-problem ninety fi ve percent of A G the time. Who is going to be standing at the toilet door C checking IDs? G This is just another wacko attempt by the progres- I sive intolerants and the Gestapo crowd trying to mess O up cultural norms. Trying to make folks who hold to traditional understandings of our society as bigots and Neanderthals if we believe that peeing shouldn’t be a public matter. We all have been doing fi ne without laws governing D public restroom use. Trump’s remarks made sense. Ted Cruz is trying to seize this issue which doesn’t make A sense. Trump’s response was much better. Y Trump is trying to move to the political center to get elected in November. Cruz is still trying to push his H support to the edges of the spectrum. Cruz doesn’t M help himself for a November run doing this. Time to A be more than an ideologue. A Are There Any Good Cop Shows on TV? P Sometimes I love sitting down and watching old P Y (Continued on Page 10) Y THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 29, 2016 Res Publica by David Trumbull Wake Up America The 65th annual National American tradition. FUNDATORIES Day of Prayer, May 5, 2016, The Supreme Court will have profound signifi - affi rmed the right of en to their god Janus, and the cance for our country. It is state legislatures to name Quirinal was given to one an unprecedented open their sessions with of the Hills that they occupied. opportunity to see prayer in Marsh vs. Contemporary with all of the Lord’s heal- Chambers (1983). this was the development ing and renewing The National of the Etruscan Race. They power made mani- Day of Prayer is were savage in their reli- fest as we call on a vital part of our gion and morals, but refined citizens to humbly heritage. Since the in their artistic tastes as come before His fi rst call to prayer in the most-civilized of mod- throne. 1775, when the Conti- ern nations. They were tomb- The theme for nental Congress asked the builders and they built 2016 is Wake Up colonies to pray for wis- their tombs underground America, emphasizing the dom in forming a nation, the as chambers carved out of need for people, corporately call to prayer has continued the tufa rock many, many years and individually, to return to through our history, including before the early Christians the God of Fathers in reverence President Lincoln’s proclama- thought about the catacombs. for His Holy Name. To further tion of a day of “humiliation, Wall of Romulus. The Etruscans cremated their highlight our theme, the cho- fasting, and prayer” in 1863. Fundatories in Latin, fonda- eventually became known as dead, but buried images of sen Scripture for this year is In 1952, a joint resolution by tore in Italian, and founders in the “Seven Hills of Rome” them, so there is plenty of Isaiah 58:1a “Shout it aloud, do Congress, signed by President English. For hundreds of years, named Capitoline, Aventine, sculptural evidence of their not hold back. Raise your voice Truman, declared an annual Rome was the undisputed mis- Palatine, Esquiline, Quirinal, culture. They also built walls, like a trumpet.” national day of prayer. In tress of the world. Whatever her Viminal, and Coelian. These aqueducts and temples, and th For the May 5 observances, 1988, the law was amended greatness might have been, in hills were occupied by vagrant they made use of the prin- Dr. Tony Evans, the 2016 and signed by President Rea- architecture, painting, or reli- tribes long before Romulus ciples of arched construction. Honorary Chairman, wrote gan, permanently setting the gion, that greatness has left its appeared on the scene. The The Etruscans are credited with a special prayer to be simul- day as the fi rst Thursday of mark here. The history of no tribes were savage hunters the construction of the “Cloaca taneously read throughout every May.