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Council Passes Operating Budget, and with Mayoral Melodrama THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2021 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SERVING BACK BAY - SOUTH END - FENWAY - KENMORE Council passes CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE DAY IN BOSTON Operating Budget, and with mayoral melodrama included By Seth Daniel race issue. It was the largest City Budget The City Council voted – passed in the history of Boston – though not unanimously – to which is typically the case from approve the City’s Operating year to year in modern times. Budget, the School Department The Budget does use more than Budget, and the Capital Budget $80 million from the federal Res- at its meeting on June 30, cul- cue Plan funding, as well, to fund minating what’s been a long and recovery efforts on many differ- arduous journey that has made its way squarely into a mayoral (CITY BUDGET, Pg. 6) Acting Mayor Kim Janey delivers Residents and revelers converged at City Hall Plaza on Sunday, July 4, to celebrate Independence Day in Boston with the City’s annual Fourth of July parade. See more photos on Page 5. first 100-days-in-office speech By Dan Murphy my lifetime.” During her speech, Mayor What’s in the Mystery Box? Acting Mayor Kim Janey Janey announced she has estab- delivered a speech commemorat- lished the city’s Children’s and First Lutheran Church, IBA officials crack open time capsule ing her first 100 days in office on Youth Cabinet, which serves By Seth Daniel IBA gathered to present the metal well. However, the congregation Friday, July 2, at the Museum of as a policy-making group that box time capsule buried on Oct. built a new facility in the Back African American History. coordinates city-based programs In the very last stone in the 16, 1898, and open it to see what Bay and moved there in the mid- “It has been just over a 100 and services to increase equity, bottom corner of the basement was inside. 1900s. IBA was formed in 1968 days since I took office,” said create opportunities, as well as of the old Villa Victoria Arts “This box seems to have as the result of a protest against Mayor Janey, a lifelong Bosto- to reduce disparities for the chil- Center lay the cornerstone of the passed out of memory and Urban Renewal demolition, and nian. “ As Mayor, I have an even dren and youth citywide. It will old building, and inside that cor- thought,” said Rev. James Hop- large amounts of affordable deeper appreciation of our city, also work to optimize the city’s nerstone was the surprise of the kins of the First Lutheran Church housing were built. In addition, her people, and, above all, the partnerships with nonprofits, summer – a 123-year-old time of Boston. “We’ll get to see what the church had been purchased work that goes into making Bos- faith-based organizations, high- capsule from when the center was important for posterity in in 1980 to host arts and cultur- ton stronger every day. I must er education institutions and was the predecessor of the First the eyes of our forefathers.” al events, as well as their bi-lin- say that each and every day it has employers. Lutheran Church in the Back Vanessa Calderon-Rosado, gual pre-school. That all came been a privilege to serve you and Bay. director of IBA, said the Lutheran to a halt a few years ago when a to lead this city. It is the honor of (100 DAYS Pg. 3) On Wednesday morning, in Church had met at the Arts Cen- renovation project at the church the sanctuary of the First Luther- ter for many years, when it was went sideways, and it eventually an Church in the Back Bay, offi- a German-speaking church as cials from the Church and from (TIME CAPSULE Pg. 7) ‘We Sing: Boston’ to bring music to outdoor public spaces By Dan Murphy Chelsea, Roxbury, Dorchester, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at Clifford Chinatown, and Mattapan, and Playground, 160 Norfolk Ave., The Friends of the Public culminating in a city-wide sing- Boston; “We Sing: Chinatown” Garden is partnering with Bos- ing event in September on the on Saturdays, July 24 and Aug. ton Children’s Chorus for “We Boston Common. 15, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at Chin Sing: Boston” - a series of free, The series includes “We Sing: Park on The Greenway Surface outdoor singing events taking Chelsea” on Saturdays, July 17 Road and Beach Street, Boston; place over five weekends from and Aug. 7, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., “We Sing: Dorchester” on Sun- Saturday, July 17, through Sun- at Clark Avenue Middle School, days, July 25 and Aug. 8, from COURTESY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON day, Aug. 15, at outdoor public 8 Clark Ave., Chelsea; “We 2 to 3:30 p.m., at Town Field Acting Mayor Kim Janey delivers her first 100-days-in-office on July 1 spaces in neighborhoods in and Sing: Roxbury” on Sundays, at the Museum of African American History. around Boston, including in July 18 and Sunday, Aug. 1, (WE SING: BOSTON Pg. 3) PAGE 2 THE BOSTON SUN JULY 8, 2021 editorial NO ESCAPING CLIMATE CHANGE GUEST OP-ED Heat domes. Polar vortexes. Superstorms. Megadroughts. Wildfire Holidays and Freedoms ically celebrates that milestone in selves in harm’s way to protect tornados. Rising sea levels. By State Sen. William Brownsberger our progress. our freedoms. Veterans Day and These terms were unheard of at the start of this century -- other The recent hate crimes in Bel- Martin Luther King Day cel- Memorial Day are our holidays than in academic journals -- but are now part of our everyday con- mont, Winthrop, and Brighton, ebrates a great leader and those to remember those who have who struggled alongside him to served and those who have given versation. so close to home and so near the fourth of July, have me thinking make freedom real for African their lives to win and protect our Climate change and its catastrophic effects no longer exist in the about the meaning of our nation- Americans by dismantling the freedom. On those days, we also realm of science fiction describing a distant and dystopian future -- al holidays. state and local laws discriminat- honor our public safety personnel. ing against them. Labor Day honors public they are part of the here-and-now in every corner of the globe. Seven of our eleven federal hol- idays celebrate our struggles for The struggle for universal safety personnel, teachers, and Although it is true that our planet has been experiencing its hot- freedom and justice. Each of our civil rights and freedoms contin- other unionized workers, but test years in recorded history over the past decade, the term “glob- national struggles have occurred ues to this day, but it is broader more broadly honors all those in the context of broader interna- and more complex. It is not just who fought for better wages and al warming” does not really capture what is going on. Indeed, the about changing laws. It is about working conditions in the inter- tional liberation struggles. phrase global warming almost has a warm and fuzzy connotation. changing the behavior of individ- national labor movement. It is Independence Day and Wash- After all, who likes to be cold? uals and institutions who may dis- easy to forget across the distance ington’s Birthday celebrate our criminate against not only Afri- of years just how low wages But 14 years ago, the award-winning New York Times columnist declaration of independence can Americans but other minori- often were and how cruel the and author Thomas Friedman used a different term to describe the from King George and honor ties and/or women. All nations workplace could be. The labor those who fought our revolu- effects of climate change. He called it “global weirding,” first coined that are committed in good faith movement fought and won great tionary war to uphold that dec- to basic human rights continue victories to create the relative by the environmentalist L. Hunter Lovins, which Friedman laration. Our revolution was to struggle to realize those rights comfort that many of us now described this way: just the first of many revolutions universally for their citizens. enjoy. As in the civil rights move- to replace the autocratic rule of “Avoid the term ‘global warming.’ I prefer the term ‘global weird- The recent hateful incidents ment, there is more to be done. European monarchs with gov- diminish the freedom of all Columbus Day has become ing,’ because that is what actually happens as global temperatures ernment by the people. minorities. Whether one is vis- controversial for good reason. rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are Our new holiday, Juneteenth, ibly Black, visibly Asian, visibly Columbus’ revealed the Amer- expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier, and the most celebrates the final end of slav- an orthodox Jew or visibly trans- icas to Europeans, but he did is ery in the United States. Over gender, one should be able to so in the service of a monarch violent storms more numerous.” 600,000 died in our civil war. By walk the streets free from the fear bent on acquiring resources for Tom Friedman’s reference to the term global weirding came amidst comparison, only 25,000 died in of random violence. royal aggrandizement. Those a torrent of climate change denial by Republican politicians and fossil our revolutionary war. Almost Many people who commit who came after him destroyed as many soldiers died in the hate crimes may suffer from some the great pre-Colombian civiliza- fuel industry executives, but has proven to be prescient in view of the civil war as in all our other wars form of mental illness, but it is tions in the Americas.
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