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VOL. 123 - NO. 43 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OCTOBER 25, 2019 $.35 A COPY th Happy The 55 Head of the Charles Regatta Halloween A large crowd cheers on the rower’s at the Newell Boathouse On the 3rd weekend in October since 1965, the world’s larg- est two-day rowing event start line is at the Boston University Boathouse. The finish line is near Herter Park. The course is three-miles with more than 11,000 athletes, 2,000 boats competing in 60+ events. Local, national and inter- News Briefs national racing clubs, college by Sal Giarratani crew teams, and high school teams, including three from Italy competed to be the best in McConnell Tells GOP: their class. Competitors compete against Prepare for Trial one another and the clock, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told which starts approximately fif- Senate Republicans to be ready for an impeachment teen seconds apart. trial of President Trump as soon as Thanksgiving as Harvard Rowing Team the Senate began to brace for the chaos that is about to engulf the nation. Impeachment is the first step in removing a president with the House voting formal charges and the Senate Extended Right Lane and Right Shoulder Closure Along holding a trial that either convicts or acquits him. Right now, the House doesn’t want to take an impeachment Mystic Valley Parkway (Route 16 Eastbound) in Medford vote, but rather just continue its impeachment inquiry The Massachusetts Department of Transpor- and appropriate signage to guide drivers through without a vote. tation (MassDOT) has announced that there the work area. Personally, and it is just a gut feeling, I truly wonder will be an extended right lane and right Drivers traveling through the affected areas if there is any real whistleblower out there concerning shoulder closure along the Mystic Valley Parkway should expect delays, reduce speed, and use the phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian presi- (Route 16 eastbound) in Medford. The clo- caution. dent over Joe and Hunter Biden. I wouldn’t put it past sure began on Tuesday, October 22nd, and All scheduled work is weather dependent U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence will continue through to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, and/or may be impacted due to an emergency Committee, to make up this whistleblower story. November 8th. situation. Maybe McConnell is correct on his Thanksgiving date The extended temporary lane closure will be For more information on traffic conditions for impeachment to begin, but I still think Democrats in place along the Route 16 eastbound ramp travelers are encouraged to: Dial 511 and select like their inquiry strategy because they can just con- between the exit ramp to Mystic Avenue and 3301 a route to hear real-time conditions. tinue beating up on Trump as long as they wish, trying Mystic Valley Parkway. Visit www.mass511.com, a website which to bring down his numbers and weaken his base. These temporary traffic impacts are necessary provides real-time traffic and incident advisory Trump Could be Many Things in order to allow crews to safely and effectively information, and allows users to subscribe But He is Not Hitler install two structural concrete slabs across a to text and email alerts for traffic conditions. What is wrong with former N.J. Gov. Christie high-pressure gas main. Follow MassDOT on Twitter @MassDOT to receive Whitman who says she stands by her tweet she deleted The work is part of a $5.2 million project to regular updates on road and traffic conditions. comparing Trump to Hitler. She had tweeted Hitler “has construct a new MassDOT Maintenance Facility Download MassDOT’s GoTime mobile app and nothing on Trump.” It’s time for giving such tweeters at 3171 Mystic Valley Parkway. view real-time traffic conditions before setting a sanity check. Traffic management will utilize police details out on the road. City Councilor Supports Vandalism At Columbus Statue in Providence THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFIC Over the Columbus Day weekend, vandals sprayed red paint all over a city-owned Columbus statue in 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON (Continued on Page 14) Tuesdays 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM and Thursdays 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 2019 Res Publica by David Trumbull Columbus Day Under Assault in Massachusetts One of our Massachusetts lawmakers has accused Christopher QUINTILIAN Columbus of intentionally terrorizing Native Americans and has fi led a bill to kick Columbus Day off our state calendar and replace “Public Professor of Rhetoric.” it with Indigenous Peoples Day. He retained this salaried offi ce for about twenty years, and died “ … the reality of his [Christopher Columbus’] time in the Americas about 100 A.D. after ten fruitful and his intentional role in terrorizing the native peoples he came in retirement years. contact with cannot be ignored. It is hard to accept that the things There is no doubt that we learned in grade school were never true, but we have an obliga- Quintilian’s greatest work was tion to history and to our children to move beyond the outdated and “De Institutione Oratoria,” pre- oversimplifi ed version of history many of us were taught.” pared in twelve books that — Massachusetts State Representative Jack Patrick Lewis, required about two years to as quoted in Framingham Source write. The work gives a complete course in rhetoric, including Representative Lewis, of the Seventh Middlesex District, which detailed information on the includes Ashland and most of the eastern parts of Framingham, proper training in practical has fi led a bill, H. 3665, changing the second Monday in October elocution, starting with pre- from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, and, according liminary education, and leading to the text of the bill, “Recommending that it be observed by the right through to the time of the people, with appropriate exercises in the schools and otherwise, orator’s fi rst public appearance. to acknowledge the history of genocide and discrimination against The fi rst two books describe Indigenous peoples, and to recognize and celebrate the thriving the elementary education of cultures and continued resistance and resilience of Indigenous his time in Rome. The following peoples and their tribal nations.” nine books discuss invention, This assault on Columbus has sixteen co-sponsors (see list at arrangement, composition, https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3665/Cosponsor) memory, and delivery; all as Opposition to Columbus Day is nothing new. At the height of applied to oratory. The twelfth the popularity of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, opposition to book describes the perfect Columbus Day was a top priority for that hate group. They lobbied orator, his skills, and moral to overturn state laws that recognized the holiday, protesting, and character. burning crosses at Columbus Day celebrations and demanding The tenth book is especially that statues be torn down (sounds familiar). That’s the company famous for its comparisons of that the Democrats who want to dump Columbus Day chose to well-known Greek and Roman keep. writers, along with a critical The fake Native American, Elizabeth Warren, observed the analysis of each. October 14th federal holiday by tweeting: “The story of America’s “De Institutione Oratoria” mistreatment of indigenous peoples is long and painful. And was lost during the Middle yet, Native communities have proven resilient. We owe them our Ages but recovered by respect — and we must honor our government’s commitments Giovanni Bracciolini during and promises to them. #IndigenousPeoplesDay” the Renaissance when it imme- Quintilian’s statue in Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain However, not all our elected offi cials are like those liberal diately infl uenced the educa- Democrats who hate America and want to erase its history, poison Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, career as an “advocatio” (legal tional style of that later age. the present, and weaken our future. This year, on the Wednesday known to us as Quintilian, was counsel). Although he was Quintilian’s most celebrated after Columbus Day, President Trump defended Columbus Day a celebrated Roman literary well known for his legal work, theory was that the prime during a press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. critic, teacher, and rhetori- he became quite famous as a function of education was to In response to those who would replace Columbus Day with cian. He was born in Spain teacher in rhetoric. Quintilian produce men of high character Indigenous Peoples’ Day, President Trump said: “To me, it will about 35 A.D. and received soon attracted the attention of and broad culture. always be called Columbus Day. Some people don’t like it. I do!” his training as an orator at Emperor Vespasian, and was NEXT ISSUE: I do too, and so, I expect, do the vast majority of the readers of Rome, but started his public appointed to the position of Literati of the Later Empire the Post-Gazette. 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