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SouthBoston TODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door APRIL 24, 2014; Vol.2 Issue 23 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE South Boston Today’s A New Day Last Week’s Is Dawning! or the first time in 50 Poll On years, South Boston Page 2 F may be rezoned. City Councilors Bill Linehan and Michael Flaherty are taking the bull by the horns, as residents of South Boston are saying enough is enough, and have South Boston Today introduced a measure that will launch a rezoning process of the neighborhood that reportedly has more than 20 commercial real estate projects in the pipeline. With all of this pending development, if the zoning is not @SBostonToday changed, both Councilors agree that South Boston will continue to pay a price. Three years ago, with Go to our South Boston Today considerable community input, page to vote on our weekly poll. First Street was re-zoned through Make sure you like & share CONTINUED ON page 4 Tired of Watching the Bus Pass You By? 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CallCall UsUs atat 617-268-4110617-268-4110 oror EmailEmail atat [email protected]@SouthieShuttle.com toto Inquire.Inquire. 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com April 24, 2014 EDITORIAL This Decision Will Send A Clear Message One Way Or The Other ill South Boston for the developer are working The Boston Redevelopment keep families in this hard behind the scenes to seek Authority has received over 1,000 W neighborhood or will approval to build condos at the signatures of our neighbors in approval be given to build luxury Gate of Heaven school building. support of a charter school. condos at the site of the Gate of As luxury condos are being built As the City of Boston Heaven school building? at a record pace in South Boston, conducts an audit of the Boston Over the years, we have many long time homeowners are Redevelopment Authority, already witnessed the acres of now unable to afford the huge many are now asking about the South Boston property awarded increases in property taxes that community process and these real to and re-zoned to benefit we have experienced over the estate deals. Why are developers preferred developers. After a years. Unchecked, the South given preference to build condos botched plan to keep the Gatey Boston market will be flooded in South Boston, even though gym open, it is now being built with high priced condos. the community is against it? Is for condos and the historic At a capacity -filled community it time to bring a charter school rectory is already luxury condos. meeting at the Tynan Community to our neighborhood or do we Now, two athletics facilities School several weeks ago, South need more luxury condos? The (the Gate of Heaven gym and Boston residents pleaded with neighborhood is seeking a voice the South Boston Neighborhood elected officials to help build a in their future. Let’s stand up House “The Ollie”) have been charter school at the site of Gate for the people of South Boston closed and our children now of Heaven School. Several South and say NO to luxury condos have limited athletic facilities. Boston elected officials supported at the Gate of Heaven school It now appears that agents the plan to build a charter school. building. “In Matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock” - Thomas Jefferson Last Week’s Poll Last Week’s Poll Results Does South Boston Have A Parking Crisis Editor’s Note Congrats to Commisioner Bill Evans YES 87% Congratulations and well done to our new reality. This same planning Commissioner Evans and all those must be used for all future major security officers who managed to events. It’s important to remember police Monday’s Boston Marathon that the two cowards had originally event without police-state style tactics. planned to attack Boston’s July 4th NO 13% The use of upwards of 500 plain clothes celebrations. Only the sooner than officers and the “behind closed doors” expected assembly of their bombs placement of tactical units with long dictated the marathon attack. And rifles seemed to provide the correct that attraction was simply large www.SouthBostonToday.com South BostonToday @SBostonToday blend of freedom and safety. crowds of Americans. Sadly this is only Event One of Good job BPD, but don’t relax. SouthBoston PO Box 491 • South Boston, MA 02127 TODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door South Boston Today is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond the cost of Publisher Editor In Chief Managing Editor the space occupied by the error. All South Boston Today produced artwork, design, and layout John Ciccone Brian R. Mahoney Brian P. Wallace remain the sole property of South Boston Today. Reproduction in whole or part is strictly forbidden. South Boston Today reserves the right to cut, edit or reject any copy without notice. [email protected] • [email protected] South Boston Today is a Series of the Today Publications Series LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Deadlines 396 West Broadway • 617.268.4032 • Office hours: Mon-Fri 10:00am - 2:00pm Press Copy - Monday at 6:00pm • Advertisements Space Reservations - Friday at 6:00pm • Ad Material - Monday at 4:00pm • Camera Ready Ads - Tuesday at 6:00pm April 24, 2014 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com 3 InformationThe Center Now They’re Saying ‘WHAT’ Is Causing Global Warming?? SOUTH BOSTON TODAY John Ciccone Note: talk back to John Ciccone by email at [email protected] his will be another ‘Bits and that warming itself causes. According immunity to pretty much do whatever unanimously in the US Senate by both Pieces’ column this week to them, Global Warming causes he pleased here. He was one of the ring Republicans and Democrats. Had Ttouching on several subjects. everything from divorce to bad hair leaders when Iran took 52 American Obama vetoed this bill, it would have First, many comments came in about days, to goat’s milk in Tibet souring hostages and held them captive for 144 easily been over ridden and he knew last week’s column. Some readers asked too early. But some of these people are days in the Jimmy Carter years. John it. Maybe it would have been more if I was being a bit hard on the ‘Feds’ now getting so nutty in what they are Kerry and Obama didn’t want to cause satisfying to let the guy come here and in regard to the Cliven Bundy/Bureau blaming for climate change, as they call a stir with Iran and were taking no then arrest him and toss him in prison of Land Management (BLM) standoff it now, that some folks are no longer action to block this guy from coming. for what he did to our countrymen. Oh on the Nevada ranch. My answer: Not just shaking their heads and smirking, But Senator Cruz stood up and said well, can’t always get what you want. hard enough. There is never an excuse they are beginning to suggest that these no way. He filed a bill in the Senate to But Ted Cruz, backed by the rest of the for heavily armed government entities to activists get help – quick. Case in point, block Aboutalebi and stop the Iranians Senators, stopped him and that’s the threaten and attempt to bully American recently, in the British Parliament, some from sending him. Obama signed it most important thing. citizens. As reports came in after the of the extra loony disciples, calling into law, begrudgingly last week. He Now the next big question is: How tense situation eased up, it was learned themselves ‘ministers’ in the movement, had no choice. Cruz’s bill was passed can we keep Justin Bieber out? that the BLM actually slaughtered some demanded that the British people cut of Bundy’s cattle and caused others to back significantly on the amount of die by the way they chased them with baked beans they consume because the helicopters. The feds were determined to gassy emissions that often follow from get those cows off the land. But as Todd human consumption of beans is causing Starns said: “Bundy should have told the the planet to heat up. This prompted BLM that they were Mexican cows that some Conservatives in Parliament to came across the border illegally for better laugh so hard, they almost fell out of their seats. The ‘ministers’ became furious The City of Boston, the Massachusetts Convention grazing opportunities…” Had he done Center Authority, Massport, and the that, the feds probably would not only be that they were not being taking seriously Massachusetts Department of Transportation happy the cows were in the country, but and one of them stormed out. I know, invite you to a they also may have tried to register them this story might sound too ridiculous as Democratic voters. for even these nuts. But to confirm, go Community Meeting As to the ‘Free Speech’ zones that the online to your favorite search engine, to learn about a 21st century BLM set up in an attempt to restrict the type in ‘Brits, Baked Beans and Global Sustainable Transportation Plan for the Bundy supporters there, this is America. Warming’ and see it for yourselves. South Boston Waterfront area Our whole country is a Free Speech zone These people are becoming priceless whether Harry Reid likes it or not.