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VOL. 114 - NO. 3 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY 15, 2010 $.30 A COPY 14th Annual Taste of Eastie Go Ahead and Another Successful Year VOTE It’s YOUR RIGHT as an American ... TUESDAY January 19, 2010 The 14th Annual Taste of Eastie held at the Boston Logan Airport Hilton on Tuesday, Your vote does count ... January 12th was another great event. Many thanks to East Boston Main Streets, Executive Director, Clark Moulaison, the board of directors, volunteers and restaurants that made it successful. (See Photos on Page 7) News Briefs Mayor’s Column by Sal Giarratani by Thomas M. Menino, Mayor, City of Boston We’re barely two weeks into a new our city; allowing for the creation of new year, but 2010 is already off to a strong in-district charter schools; and giving Memories from a start. During my Inaugural address last local districts the ability to innovate First Christmas Together week, I spoke of a new era of shared without the delay of lengthy arbitration. Mike Sulprizio from Representative Carlo innovation and the need to reinvent our By embracing this entire mix of priori- Basile’s Office and his new bride Lindsay just approach to old challenges. No where is ties — rather than offering small fixes spent the first Christmas and New Year together this spirit of innovation and collabora- at the margins — legislators will dem- as husband and wife. They will look back on these tion more crucial than in transforming onstrate their commitment to helping holidays and their Wedding Day as making 2009 educational opportunities for our youth, all schools prepare all children for the their favorite year of their lives. Many, many, and last week we took a major step future. I then look forward to Governor many, many more holidays together for them. forward in realizing this goal when the Patrick swiftly signing these reforms House passed an education reform bill into law. Carrie Coming to Worcester that provides local districts the tools for I want to thank the dedicated partners Carrie Underwood from American Idol and her greater innovation. This bill is a win on Beacon Hill that helped make this hit song, “Before He Cheats” will be coming to for students in Boston and across the possible, especially Speaker DeLeo, Worcester at the DCU Center in March. She has Commonwealth, and real reform is Education Committee Co-Chair Marty a great country sound and seems destined for a within our grasps. As final revisions are Walz, and Representatives St. Fleur and great singing career. made in a conference committee with Moran. In fact, all of the House mem- If You Really Want ... the Senate, we owe it to our children bers of the Boston delegation voted in You know, if you really hate the long winter and families to pass these reforms now favor of the bill, and their support un- cold, just do what I did. I recently had my teeth – because there’s no time to waste. If derscores the partnership that is so cleaned at the dentist and my next appointment we finish the job, we’ll deliver on the civil important to overcoming our biggest is at the end of March. The lady in front of me rights issue of our time. challenges. didn’t have to return until sometime in early The final piece of legislation should By adopting meaningful reform tools June. By that time, winter’s only a memory and take the best provisions from the House and allowing for the creation of in- the Mirabella Pool will be open again. and Senate bills. I anticipate that the district charter schools, this education final bill will accomplish the three reform bill not only puts the Common- I’ve Got a Tripe Story for You priorities that I have strongly advocated wealth at the forefront of the national By now, you all know I’m 50 percent Italian, for over the past several months. These education reform movement. It puts actually Sicilian. Well, on New Year’s Eve I showed include: Providing local leaders such as the state in a position to be much more up at an Italian household to welcome in 2010. Superintendent Johnson the tools and competitive for $250 million in federal (Continued on Page 15) flexibility to carry out our plan to turn around the underperforming schools in (Continued on Page 15) 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, JANUARY 15, 2010 Res Publica by David Trumbull “It’s not the Kennedys’ seat, and it’s not the Democrats’ seat, IT’S THE PEOPLES’ SEAT” th WHY MARBLE? — Scott Brown, January 11 For the novice, a very form other disintegrated from Carrara, Italy, is better, My birthday is ‘round about as a magnet in drawing small and elementary dose rocks, give it a few million and Pentelicus in Greece, now which prompted two vis- more people here in viola- of geology, with some tech- years to cook, and presto, out ranks with the world’s its to downtown offices I tion of the law and it will nology, might help to provide comes flagstone. (3) Meta- best. rarely otherwise see. First I impose new costs on tax- a better understanding of morphic rock, which was Augustus, the first em- trekked down to Chinatown payers. He opposes amnesty, our theology. formed from other disinte- peror of the Roman Empire to the Registry of Motor and believes we ought to The surface of the earth as grated rocks plus accumu- ruled for forty-one years. His Vehicles for my driver’s li- strengthen our border en- we see it is either rock, lated debris. Its chemical reign, called the Augustan cense renewal. Secondly forcement and institute an earth, or water. The terms character was altered by Age, was for Rome, what the was to my physician for the employment verification sys- rock and stone are often pressure, temperature, va- Age of Pericles was for Ath- annual look, listen, poke, tem with penalties for com- misused. Generally speak- pors, and/or liquids. In other ens. Augustus boasted that say “ahh,” drop-your-trou- panies that hire illegal ing, rock includes the solid words a metamorphosis took he found Rome a city of brick sers and cough. I dare say immigrants. material which forms the place through the years. and left it a city of marble. most everyone would agree GUN ISSUES earth’s crust, and it is also Marble is an example of We remember from a previ- that the latter, for all the in- Scott supports the Second called bedrock. The smaller Metamorphic rock. ous column, a statement dignities, is still preferable Amendment and believes or quarried pieces of rock Marble deposits are widely regarding the influence of to the former visit. So what that citizens have the right are called stone. Remember distributed throughout the available materials upon it is with the Democrats who to keep and bear arms as a … we step off the curbstone world. About 90% of the building construction. Also, are hell-bent on putting the basic constitutional liberty. and not the curbrock. We marble quarried in this it’s next to impossible to list people who run the Registry He supports safe and respon- walk on flagstone and not country comes from Tennes- the marble quarries that in charge of our medical sible gun ownership. care? On Tuesday, January DEATH PENALTY flagrock. see, Vermont, and Georgia. were operating 2,000 years th A simple and very elemen- Pure marble is white, but ago. I do know, however, that 19 , we have a choice, Scott Scott believes there are Brown, as U.S. Senator, will some crimes that are so tary explanation of rock is in some areas, foreign sub- the world famous Carrara st gained by dividing it into stances and impurities quarries of Liguria were be the indispensable 41 heinous that they deserve three general classes. formed to produce a selec- worked by the Romans, and vote to stop government capital punishment. Our These classes are (1) igne- tion of beautiful colors and are still going strong. Today take-over of health care. Government should have ous rock, which was formed variations. Because it is in Italy, there are active That alone should be enough the ability to impose the by volcanic action. It is the much easier to work and marble quarries in the Aosta to elect him. Wanting to pre- death penalty in cases strongest, and most durable polish then many other valley (northwest), Castel serve the best health care where it is justified. of all rock. Granite curb- stones, along with beauti- Fiorentino (near Siena), system in the world is just MARRIAGE stones are a good example of ful color patterns, makes Verona, the Dolomites, Lom- one of the many ways that Scott believes marriage igneous rock. It’s easy to re- marble a valuable medium bardy, Valmalenco (north), Scott Brown is in touch is between a man and a member if you associate ig- for decorative uses. For Carnia (northwest), Brescia with ordinary working people woman. States should be neous with igniting the vol- sculptural work the most (north central), and, on of Massachusetts. Here are free to make their own cano. (2) Sedimentary rock, desirable qualities are pure doubt, many others that I’m some others, as gathered laws in this area, so long as which was formed from dis- white crystals, straight not acquainted with.