VOL. 116 - NO. 13 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MARCH 30, 2012 $.30 A COPY Santorum Takes North End Chamber of Commerce Louisiana by Storm by Sal Giarratani We still believe, as this race really shows.” Romney still A Proud Participant of leads in the all important delegate count and even with a 49 percent share of the vote, Santorum picked North End up only eight new dele- gates and doesn’t appear to change the overall dynamics of this Republican version Restaurant of the WEE Smackdown. It is still the Big Unit versus Santini. However, another loss in Week 2012 southern states for Romney Former U.S. Senator Rick continues to underscore a Santorum won the Louisi- pattern in this drawn out ana Republican presiden- race. Santorum has a work- tial primary, beating the ing Southern Strategy. To Week 1 acknowledged front-runner date he has won Tennessee, Mitt Romney nearly two to Mississippi, Alabama and one at the polls. Santorum now Louisiana. While Ging- April 1st – 6th had 49 percent, Romney had rich has won both South 26 percent and lagging in Carolina and Georgia. Rom- third place was Newt Ging- ney appears to have no strat- Week 2 rich at 17 percent. egy below the Mason-Dixon Santorum, already cam- line. April 8th – 13th paigning in Wisconsin as the The next primaries will be votes were being counted, Wisconsin, Maryland and told supporters in Green Bay Washington, DC on April 3. Dinner - $33.12 Packers Country: “We’re still here. We’re still fighting. (Continued on Page 12) www.NorthEndChamberofCommerce.com News Briefs Mayor Menino Promotes by Sal Giarratani The Boston Model for Success What Do Poll Numbers Mean Announces Plans for Public Innovation Center and Encourages National in the Real World? Agenda to Replicate Boston’s Example of Partnership, Not Partisanship Recently, WTKK 96.9 conservative radio talker Jay Severin referenced a recent poll indicating Recently, during his an- finalized a partnership • Three: Launch a Na- 32 percent of Americans agreeing with Obama’s nual address to the Boston agreement with Tim Rowe tional Workforce Housing thinking and 68 percent disagreeing. To him, Municipal Research Bureau, and the Seaport Square de- Program for Middle Income this seemed to mean good fortune for Republi- Mayor Thomas M. Menino velopment team to operate Households cans, especially his boy Mitt Romney. Elsewhere, highlighted how Boston has the new Boston Public Inno- • Four: Invest in Basic Life other mainstream media sources have Obama’s successfully created jobs, vation Center. The Center Science and Healthcare job approval ratings hovering between 38-41 per- education, and innovation will break ground in three • Five: Use Green Tech- cent. However, even with all this bad polling for during a stalled economy. weeks and will serve as a nology to Improve People’s the Democrats, Fox News Network polls show Mayor Menino outlined The hub and home base for en- Lives Obama one-on-one beating Romney, Santorum Boston Model, calling on the trepreneurs to meet and ex- “The most vital thing to and Gingrich. Of course, Jay didn’t mention the nation’s leaders in Washing- change ideas, to convene replicate would be our coop- sad news from the Fox poll. ton to learn from Boston’s programs and events, and eration and partnership,” In the end, Republicans are in much more successes by focusing on support of the innovation Mayor Menino said. “To- trouble than they should be and the longer the partnership, rather than economy. The center will be gether, we have showed The GOP nomination process goes forth, the more partisanship. a one story, 12,000 square Boston Model is about part- likely an Obama victory appears. The GOP con- “With spring officially foot facility, including a nership; not partisanship.” vention will be held in Tampa just before Labor here, there is no doubt that 3,000 square foot restau- Results of “The Boston Day. The election is in November. Will the win- Boston is a rising sun. And I rant, and 9,000 square feet Model” Include: ner be from among the current crop or will a believe our progress shows of meeting and event space. • $3 billion dollars of devel- surprise candidate appear on the convention that Boston has a lot to offer Mayor Menino outlined opment currently under con- floor? The Democrats need only sit quietly to the nation,” Mayor Menino five steps that the federal struction in Boston. make their unified final push. If the Republi- said. “Politicians in this government should take to • 100 companies and 3 cans screw this election up, the party will long country are now so focused replicate Boston’s success. thousand jobs have set up live to regret the error of this protracted blood- on ideology, and not on the • One: Create a National in our waterfront Innova- things that improve people’s College Completion Effort tion District since January (Continued on Page 10) daily lives.” • Two: put One Million 2010. Mayor Menino also an- High-School Teens to Work nounced that the City has Over the Summer (Continued on Page 13) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on 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, MARCH 30, 2012 Res Publica by David Trumbull RepugnantRepugnant to the Constitution to the Constitution and Void and Void GETTING CLIPPED IN OLD ROME A barber may be defined as of the hair to his tonsor. center of the shop. His cloth- a person who engages in the There was a period in Ro- ing was protected by one of occupation of cutting and man history when the bar- many kinds of coverings, dressing the hair, and shav- ber was almost a tyrant. The like a towel or "sudarium", ing or trimming beards. The hair was cut and styled his or a front cover "involucrum" name barber is derived from way or not at all. The wealthy made of linen or fine cotton. the Latin "barba", meaning families were able to afford His majesty, the tonsor, beard. The occupation goes the services of a tonsor as would perform the actual back in antiquity to at least part of their household staff grooming or shaving while 600 B.C. The Old Testament and were attended once or one or two of his assistants mentions Ezekiel, who used twice in the course of a day. would stand around and pass a razor to cut off his hair and The majority, who were not the various "tools of the scatter it to the winds. It was able to afford the luxury of a trade". Last Friday, March 23rd, over 50,000 concerned citizens not the cutting of the hair, private barber, were forced National attitudes toward gathered at public rallies in over 100 American cities to but the use of a razor that to patronize one of the many hairdressing were much Stand Up For Religious Freedom. The Boston rally was indicated a form of barbering tonstrina in the city. the same as today. There well attended, in spite of change of location to the Boston that possibly existed. There were also those bar- were those who preferred to Common less than 48 hours prior to the rally and an Our barbers of today are bers for the poorer classes, mass their hair artistically erroneous rumor that it was being cancelled entirely. often referred to as tonsorial who placed their barber like Nero, or those who never For me the highlight of the Boston rally was C.J. Doyle, artists. The Latin words chairs or stools out on the permitted more than a few Executive Director of the Catholic Action League of "tonsor" or "tonsoris" refer to sidewalk each morning and brief moments to hair Massachusetts (www.catholicactionleague.org), addressing barber or shearer. "Tonstrix" did their clipping in the open. grooming like Augustus. the substantial arguments against the constitutionality of is a female barber or hair- From its very beginning the Haircuts were performed the Obama Administration’s Department of Health and dresser and "tonstrina" is tonstrina became a club, in- with iron scissors that never Human Services mandate that religiously affiliated the barber shop. Barbering formation center, gossip knew a common pivot, and hospitals and other institutions purchase products and was first practiced in Rome shop, and a rendezvous for a of course, this made steps services they find morally impermissible. about 300 to 250 B.C. The job interviews by employers. inevitable and a comb very Mr. Doyle spoke of an earlier state attack on freedom of Roman tonsor cut and The popularity of the barber desirable. Curling and dye- religion and how the United States Supreme Court ruled, dressed the hair, trimmed shop was a barometer of ing the hair was also com- unanimously, that such attacks against Church-related beards, cut fingernails, and their income, and most bar- mon practice during those institutions were “repugnant to the Constitution and void.” tweezed unwanted hair that bers became very wealthy. times. Thank goodness that In 1922 the Ku Klux Klan in the state of Oregon pushed wasn't cut or was in places The usual tonstrina had the men of today do not in- for passage, by popular initiative, of a law to ban private that couldn't be cut. benches for the waiting cus- dulge themselves in such schools and to require all children to attend state schools.