It sometimes takes a seven-alarm fire in our neighborhood to aid us in putting into proper perspective what is important about our lives and what is not. The miracle, obviously, was not the fire – which had the look and…
Category: Editorials
Easter Sunday
Easter is upon us. Let us all take a moment to give thanks for everything we have and for the holiday, which commemorates one of the greatest events in the history of mankind. Jesus gave his life on the hill…
Representative Basile’s Night with Supporters Proves a Point
The upstairs function room at Spinelli’s last Thursday night was packed from front to back and all around with the supporters of Rep. Carlo Basile who attended a fundraiser there for their man. The fundraiser proved several things. First, Basile…
The Mayor’s Charity
Mayor Thomas Menino has named everyone who has given to the mayor’s city charity. Everyone included in that long and generous list of donors should wear their names being on that list as a medal of honor – for it…
NSTAR’s Responsibility
Mayor Thomas Menino is fighting for all of us when he demands that NSTAR pay up for losses suffered when the lights went out in Back Bay. If the same were to happen here as it did in Back Bay…
Interest Rates
There is one advantage to the low interest rates even in an economic environment where there appears to be no upside to real estate investments. That is, with interest rates so unbelievably low, investment in real estate causes our interest…
What’s Holding Eastie Back?
It has been about three months since Mayor Menino announced that he was creating a development scenario for East Boston’s waterfront that would reincarnate the waterfront. The East Boston waterfront was to go from something largely underutilized to something booming…
Spring Cleaning Made Much Easier by Mild Winter
Street sweeping here is imminent as the city revs up for yet another crack at cleaning this neighborhood as the winter comes to an end. One thing is decidedly different this year as opposed to last year. There has largely…
Congressman Capuano Visits Eastie for Friday Lunch
Last Friday, Congressman Mike Capuano visited East Boston to dine with friends for lunch at Rino’s on Saratoga Street. It was a friendly lunch, an off the record interlude for the seven term congressman who represents Boston. Those who ate…
Getting Better with Time
It is very rare for the Boston City Councillor from East Boston to receive top billing in a lead Boston Globe editorial yet this is exactly what occurred recently for our Councillor Sal LaMattina. LaMattina’s efforts to control the ugliness…