City Council Proposes Non-Citizen Voting
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VOL. 122 - NO. 28 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JULY 13, 2018 $.35 A COPY Madonna delle Grazie 2018 Procession CITY COUNCIL PROPOSES in Boston’s North End NON-CITIZEN VOTING by NorthEndWaterfront.com by Sal Giarratani The Boston City Council is looking at ways for grant- ing non-citizens the right to vote in city elections. Doesn’t anyone understand the concept of government anymore? Residents make up a country but only citizens make up the government. After all, the citizens are the government in the United States of America. Government does not fl ow down to the people but rather up from the citizenry. Too bad many elected offi cials today are so ignorant of U.S. history and our government. I don’t care whether non- citizens are here legally or illegally, only citizens are the voice of government, thus ONLY CITIZENS HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. Eight city councilors have endorsed the concept of non-citizens voting in municipal elections. Where is the push back on the Council fl oor against this ludicrous idea? Already we have elected offi cials calling for open borders and now we are hearing about giving non-citizens the right to vote? Our founding fathers must be turning over in their graves looking at how badly things are going in America today. News Briefs The annual procession was held for Madonna from San Sossio Baronia Avellino. Madonna by Sal Giarratani delle Grazie on July 8, 2018, in Boston’s North delle Grazie (Our Lady of Graces) is a devotion End. The society honors Madonna Delle Grazie of to the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Avellino, Italy and was founded in Boston in 1903 Church. Hillary Looking at 2020 Run It looks like Hillary Clinton has yet to give up hope of getting elected president. She has a super-pack Onward Together out there collecting lots of cash. Right now, it looks like a whole football team’s worth of candidates are getting ready to run. 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Jim (617) 263-7766 accommodate three persons One side or approach to the who dined, by tradition, in a table was left open for serv- reclining position. Nine persons ing. All of the guests lay fl at were the designated number for on their stomachs, crosswise a Roman feast, however, if the on the sloping couches, with room was large enough addi- their arms towards the food tional guests might be invited table. “Ministratores” (waiters) and other groups of nine could brought in the dishes which be set up around a second or were placed on the tables and third table. Invited guests usu- the guests shoveled in the food ally arrived in a litter carried by with a minimum of effort. They their slaves. A “nomenclator” were furnished with knives, announced the guests upon spoons and toothpicks, but their arrival and showed them forks were unknown. Most of to their places on the triclinia the food was eaten with the in accordance with a system fingers and this, of course, of protocol. At least one of the required that hands be washed slaves attended his master by before the start of the meal fi rst washing his feet and later and after each course. Slaves by serving his food during the assisted by pouring perfumed evening hours. During earlier water over the hands of the din- times, women and children sat ers and then wiping them with on stools near the couches, but a towel. Napkins were spread in later years, the women took out in front of the diners so as their places beside their men on not to soil the couches. It was the triclinia. quite common for a person to Dining in a reclining position bring his own napkin in order was an oriental infl uence and to take home any of the food one to which westerners found that he did not have the time it very diffi cult to become accus- or the strength to consume and tomed. After being accepted, it also for gifts which the host was considered to be a mark of frequently gave. social distinction. 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