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SouthBoston TODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door OCTOBER 31, 2013; Vol.1 Issue 53 SERVING SOUTH BOSTONIANS AROUND THE GLOBE century. During those twenty years, the City has plodded along, doing lots of stuff, some good, some not This Week’s so good, depending upon whom you ask. In 2013, and likely for the rest Poll On of the first quarter of this century, doing good will not be good enough. Page 2 Boston has to be great at what it does. If Boston is to compete on a global scale, it needs great talent. If Boston is to welcome back the middle class and keep our educated talent here, South Boston Today it needs affordable middle market housing. If Boston wants families to stay here and raise their children, it needs great schools with great Get Out To Vote – teachers. If Boston wants safe and healthy neighborhoods, it needs Don’t Complain If You Don’t great leadership. If Boston wants fter 20 years, this political SOUTH BOSTON TODAY to embrace its burgeoning diversity @SBostonToday cliché is actually true – Staff Report and insure that economic prosperity This is the most important election of our city leaders has the reaches all neighborhoods, it needs A Go to our South Boston Today election of our generation. Although most direct effect on our quality of life great vision. we elected two new US Senators, The election for Mayor of Boston Getting from ‘Good to Great’ will page to vote on our weekly poll. Washington DC is still in gridlock and on November 5 is the first one require a mayor with vision, capacity, Make sure you like & share we can do very little about that. The without an incumbent in the 21st CONTINUED ON page 8 50% off tickets this weekend Promo code: Southie Reese Waters Gary Valentine + Jackie Flynn Greg Proops As Seen on Letterman Justin McKinney Kingpin, King of Queens Whose Line is it Anyway? King of Queens + Nov 14-16 Nov 22-23 Oct 31- Nov 2 The Tonight Show Nov 7-9 617.72.LAUGH laughboston.com Go Ahead, Laugh Boston. 2 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com October 31, 2013 SOUTH BOSTON TODAY EDITORIAL Vote by staff n order to be editorially responsible we should Iuse this week to urge you to VOTE and we do. However the confluence of election, Halloween and printing deadline compel us to combine the two events. When you see the kids on Broadway in costumes this weekend and on Halloween, first of all, keep an eye out for them and slow down, if you’re driving. At the same time, when you see the kids all dressed up with innocence, hope and belief on their faces, remember this is what the election is about. It’s what it’s always about. What’s best for the future- for their future. This is about the election of a mayor and city council that creates a Boston which offers a ‘sense of place’, where our children and their families can fully expect to have a bright future. So if for no other reason, vote for what will make this a better city for our children. They are what we are all about. “Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart; it is forced into betrayal by no constraint, and it is bribed by no rewards.” - Seneca Make sure you This Week’s Poll like & share South Boston Today with Should State and City tax breaks be given to your friends! large corporations in exchange for: 1) A promise to invest in and boost our economy; 2) Performance based measures of increased employment and monetary contributions to our economy 3) I don’t agree with giving large corporations tax breaks www.southbostontoday.com www.SouthBostonToday.com South BostonToday @SBostonToday SouthBoston PO Box 491 • South Boston, MA 02127 TODAYOnline • On Your Mobile • At Your Door South Boston Today is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond the cost of Publisher Editor In Chief Managing Editor the space occupied by the error. 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City gathering signatures on petitions College campus, a group of students used to be fun? Well, for most Councilors Bill Linehan, Stephen to ban snake skin boots for those said that they will wear anything they R people, especially the kids, Murphy and former councilor Mike thinking of going as Crocodile darn well please and they dare the it still is. More on this topic below. Flaherty who need our support are Dundee. If you go as an Angel, school administrators to try and do But popping up in certain places are on the ballot. This is not a newspaper some atheists might get traumatized. something about it. Said one student the Politically Correct loons who endorsement. It is a suggestion from Dress as the devil and Christians fed up with the nonsense “If I feel for years have been trying to ruin me, personally. Like every other could complain. Oh wait, to the like dressing up like Robert E. Lee Christmas, Thanksgiving, Columbus area, we need to support those PC crowd It’s always ok to offend and carrying a Confederate Flag Day, Easter and every other holiday who have a proven track record of Christians. And yet there are people while riding a horse, I’ll do just that. loved by the overwhelming number supporting South Boston. Polls open who are actually following these Said another student, “We just might of Americans. And now, they are at 7am and do not close until 8pm. stupid rules, because they think it’s go dressed up like the nuttyAssistant even starting on Halloween. Back to Halloween – It is being the right thing to do. Dean making these stupid rules and go But first – Next Tuesday is reported on mainstream news But we’re happy to report that the as a cuckoo clock. Everyone will know Election Day. As we say every time outlets that there are some grade backlash has started. On that Seattle CONTINUED ON page 16 it comes around – “If you don’t schools and college campuses that vote on Tuesday, don’t complain are trying to ban many types of on Wednesday. It needs bringing costumes people can wear. The most up every election cycle that recent to make the news is a Seattle neighborhoods without big voter College campus that is demanding turnouts get much less respect and that students refrain from dressing attention than those areas that vote like American Indians, because it in large numbers. Politicians watch might offend Indians. No dressing for turnout percentages. If a certain like cowboys because that too might section of the city, county or state offend Indians. You can’t dress shows even the slightest sign of like a rap singer. It might offend apathy, you can almost count on African Americans. Duck Dynasty constituent services suffering as outfits are not allowed because Red a result. Over many generations, Necks might retaliate. Can’t wear South Boston has been famous for a Sombrero either. Mexicans might massive voter participation and take it as a slap to their culture. political activism. But not as much There is a list now of so many in recent times. If the powers that be; costumes these Looney libs want to whether they are elected officials, ban, it would be easier to make a list rich developers or outside special of what is acceptable to them. interest groups sense weakness or a I’m guessing they think if you lack of will by neighborhood people dress as a Viking, Norwegians will to get involved, like vultures, they take offense. If you go as a tree, will circle above, move in and take environmentalists will be upset. what they want. Just look at the Thinking of getting your kid a disrespect the BRA and their greedy Scooby Doo costume? Better think enablers at City Hall have been again. PETA might say you are treating this community with lately. exploiting animals. The word is they Voting is power. No matter what the took shark costumes off the shelves weather, please come out and vote because Green Peace threatened on Tuesday. South Boston has good to protest. And the Reptile Anti- men running; men who have worked Defamation League is said to be out 4 SOUTHBOSTONTODAY • www.southbostontoday.com October 31, 2013 Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, Dear Editor: outside of the parking fines and fees, is through the I first became interested in John Connolly when I am voting for Marty Walsh for Mayor. ‘oh-yea-by-the-way’ public-meetings to announce he had the courage to run against Mayor Menino.