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VOL. 124 - NO. 10 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, MARCH 6, 2020 $.35 A COPY Biden Gets “Super” Boost Vs. Sanders, Warren Falling Fast by Sal Giarratani Last weekend, Bernie Sanders held a gigantic rally on the Boston Common. I was there observing his large crowd of DDaylightaylight supporters, mostly young who apparently see their candidate more as a movement or cause, not just a campaign. It does appear that the mod- SSavingsavings erate-center left Democrat base has jumped aboard the Biden Train as it leaves the station and that the Biden-Sanders TTimeime clash could end up taking the party to a brokered convention, especially, if Warren plans on SSpringpring FForwardorward OOnene HHourour Well, Tuesday is now history Democrats seem caught and it looks like the Democratic between a rock and hard place. @ 22:00:00 AAMM center-left has rallied behind The objective is for a victory over Joe Biden to stop the pro- President Trump in November. SSunday,unday, MarchMarch 8tthh gressive wing carry Bernie At the moment, the Republicans Sanders to the nomination at appear to be unified behind the convention this summer. Trump. Just look at the Bay Biden’s big winning night was State GOP Primary where Bill not totally unexpected as the Weld got demolished getting only party establishment viewed 9 percent of the vote. Biden as the candidate to beat While many in the liberal Bernie’s Sandernistas. The media are calling Biden the longer Elizabeth Warren stays “Comeback Kid” with his Super in the race, the better for Biden, Tuesday victories, did anyone not so for Sanders. really expect Sanders to do well When the dust settled, it was in the South? If Biden did poorly a big night for Biden as he swept that would have been real news. the South. Sanders meanwhile With Mississippi, Michigan took California and Colorado to and Florida on the horizon, stay right up there in the all- Bernie might do better than important delegate count with Bernie Sanders at Boston expected in all three of these the former vice president. Common this past Saturday. states. This Democratic primary It’s turned into a two can- fight is getting curious and didate race even with Warren sticking around dividing the curiouser. By the way, for all News Briefs unwilling to exit as of yet progressive party base. the money that Mike Bloomberg by Sal Giarratani even after finishing third in Is she hoping against hope has been spending, he got only Massachusetts and also losing for a miracle at the conven- one primary victory out in in her home state Oklahoma, tion? The longer she stays in the Pacifi c on the U.S. Samoa Is There a Need for the ERA Today? too. In the weeks to follow, it the better are Biden’s chances Islands. Millions spent for this will be time for Mississippi, of snatching the party nomina- island so at least he could say I Back in the late ’60s and early ’70s, there was a Michigan, and Florida to hold tion. Does she want to be called won something, huh? move by both liberals and feminists to get the Equal primaries. a “spoiler,” who knows? Rights Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution. The ratifi cation efforts began to secure the votes of 38 state legislatures. The date was extended to 1982, and the supporters of this movement still fell short of 38 states. Recently, Virginia became the 38th state to do Simple TIMES . so, and ERA supporters started jumping up and down. However, many opponents are saying this is all bogus. by Girard A. Plante That you can’t have an open dated deadline until you get enough states. They say it would be an unconsti- With the mild winter season dotted with cranes. Brighton, the north and east to Kneeland tutional wage to add a constitutional amendment to there were opportunities aplenty too, is abuzz with rebirth of old Street the once-sullen length of the document. to visit various favorite oases neighborhoods. Allston has its Washington Street is a beacon of Recently, fi ve Republican state attorney generals have such as the Boston Common share of expansive construction. shiny new high-rise condomini- sought to block the efforts by three Democratic-led and Public Garden. The consis- Even West Newton is building ums and luxury apartments. states to see the ERA adopted into the Constitution. tent high temps and dry ground new apartment complexes mixed The Millennium Tower — spot These fi ve state AGs have fi led a motion to intervene in laced with sunny skies arrived with retail spaces. The entire of the iconic Filene’s Department a lawsuit fi led in Virginia, Nevada and Illinois. Congress most weekends. That is where I eastern quarter of Arsenault Store — is the splashiest stud of created a deadline some 40 years ago for its passage. begin my revealing story. Street in Watertown continues the entire bunch of new places. That date came and passed. Five states have rescinded The Greater Boston area has its amazing transformation. So what does all the construc- their past approval of the amendment (Tennessee, seen a boom in the construction My observation of the fran- tion and necessary need for more Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota). of new buildings big in the past tic construction of numerous high-rent apartments mean to I say if you can get state approval by pretending decade. A ride into town on Mass new buildings over the past 12 the rest of Boston? And what there’s no deadline why can’t other states rescind its Pike from the western suburbs years begins with Downtown original action, too? There is no need to have an ERA in shows Cambridge’s skyline Crossing. From State Street to (Continued on Page 2) 2020 to guarantee women the same legal rights as men. Women have it already in the world of constitutional law. It is just blue smoke and mirrors as this ERA bid THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFIC has always been. 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON (Continued on Page 10) 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, MARCH 6, 2020 • Simple Times (Continued from Page 1) about its citizens worried about start his shift yet not in time to the cost of rent or their future in stop the thief. Security agents old neighborhoods that housed are staked out at three main generations of middle income entryways from Chauncey Street and low-income families? Those to Winter Street and Washington are the burning questions on the Streets. I’ve seen the security minds of many people whether staff for 18 years, but never saw they reside in Boston or whether such brazen thievery. thy merely visit as I do to work As my friend and I left at and socialize. the Washington Street entry, BIRTH OF THE GODS Some of the answers stare us we asked the security agent: logical gods themselves. They today as Hestia, Demeter, Hera, in the face. On an early morn- “What happens to that guy?” He are divided into two distinct Hades, and Poseidon. Zeus ing trek to Boston on the fi nal politely responded: “Oh, he’s a groups (a) Primary Gods, and was known to the Romans as Sunday in January, I saw an regular. We are trained to speak (b) Secondary Gods. The six Jupiter, and those brothers and unusual number of homeless calmly to the street thieves in Primary Gods are the offspring sisters were known as Vesta, people. Several moved aimlessly the hope they give us any items from the union of the Titans goddess of the hearth; Ceres, about the Common. Separate they stole. But not engage them Cronus and Rhea, while the goddess of agriculture; Juno, groups huddled together on in confl ict. We tell the Boston Secondary Gods are the off- wife of Jupiter; Dis, god of the benches as the air grew warm police offi cers you see outside spring from the union of Zeus underworld; and Neptune, god from a bright blue sunny sky. there. They keep watch.” The (Jupiter) with other goddesses. of the sea. In time, all of these Other homeless people walked thief vanished, though. Possibly The story surrounding the Primary Gods banded together slowly up Winter Street to their never to be apprehended. birth of the Primary Gods is in support of Zeus, to wage war frequent posts in front of the Homeless people are increas- quite interesting. It tells of against the Titans. After the Burger King and Dunkin’ Donuts ing. Luxury living spaces for the Cronus, the Titan, being warned Titans were defeated, the world on Tremont Street, across from wealthy are soaring. that someday he would be was divided into three parts; Park Street Church. I learned at an annual meeting dethroned by his offspring; Hades took the lower world; My purpose for being in Boston for a Boston-based nonprofi t a consequently, he swallowed Poseidon (Neptune) took the on a Sunday morning was to few autumns ago that half the The statue of Zeus was his fi rst fi ve children at birth. sea, and Zeus (Jupiter) took the return a clothing item and pay population of homeless in the considered one of the seven When Zeus was born, a great heavens. The earth was reserved my monthly account at Macy’s. Commonwealth have mental ill- wonders of the ancient world. stone was wrapped in swad- as the common possession of all Yet with a spring-like morning, I ness.