Increasingly, the governor’s casino gambling initiative is looking like a chess game. Now the governor is telling us he may present the legislation allowing casino gambling to the senate before the house in order to sidestep the negativity of many house members, including the leadership. By sending the legislation to the senate first, the...
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Governor sanctioning gambling today
Governor Deval Patrick is just hours away from announcing his plan for licensing casino gambling in the state. Over the weekend, numerous news agencies reported that the governor’s plan is to license three operators to run casinos in different georgraphic areas of the state. One such casino will be licensed for the Boston area,...
Galluccio victorious; senator elect
Cambridge City Councillor Anthony Galluccio beat all his rivals in the special election held Tuesday to fill the vacant seat formerly occupied by former Senator Jarrett Barrios. Senator-elect Galluccio won convincingly in Revere and in Everett. In Everett, he won by more than 1,000. In Cambridge, voters gave Galluccio the edge. Long into the...
Vote Tomorrow
Ward 6 in Revere goes to the polls tomorrow to decide on a new senator to replace Jarrett Barrios. Voters in Revere, Chelsea Saugus, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Cambridge will all be voting. The special election has been vigorous with four candidates vying for the seat – Paul Nowicki from Chelsea, Jeff Ross from...
The Ward 6 battle
Charlie Patch and Victoria Laws continue their personal battles to win the seat being given up by Councillor Mark Casella. Patch is fighting the lies and inuendo being heaped upon him by Internet idiots who are out of control. Although Laws says she does not want the support of one of the idiots, those...
End of summer
Revere Beach was packed on Labor Day as the last day of the summer of 2007 went into the local history books. With the beach still all chopped up while receiving its new public face, it didn’t look nearly as good as it will look next year at this time. Next year at this...
Revere Street bridge
Retailers on Revere Street have suffered major losses in revenues as a result of the lengthy reconstruction of the Revere Street bridge. Retailers on the street to a person have all bemoaned their fate. Said the owner of Fiore’s Market: “No one seems to care about us. My business has been hurt. The beach...
City council president
It is certain that when present city council president John Powers comes to the end of his term, either city councillor at large Dan Rizzo or George Colella will be the next council president. Colella hasn’t been lobbying his colleagues for votes, and it was expected that Rizzo would be next. In a recent...
The mayor
Rumors from a variety of sources persist about Mayor Ambrosino readying himself for a new position. No one can say with any certainty what that position might be, except to say, it will cause him to ultimately give up his mayor’s seat here – leaving Revere with a temporary mayor and a special election...
The mayor’s short-term plans
Persistent talk among most of the city’s political power brokers centers around the ambitions of Mayor Thomas Ambrosino. The mayor does not have a candidate to challenge him for re-election. He is home free for another term. However there is the belief that he is leaving for another position, and soon. The mayor will...
BJ’s and apartment housing
This city’s effort to keep people out by telling potential developers that we can’t accept new housing because the people moving into the city might have children who will need to go the public schools is all wet. This city cannot survive without growth. On the other hand, the $65 million BJ’s development proposal...
Governor down the beach
Governor Deval Patrick came to Revere Beach yesterday where he made a policy statement about the state’s future management of the beaches under the control of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. We trust and we hope the governor was serious, and that his visit here wasn’t yet another photo-op with the governor spouting...
Street Paving, sidewalks, etc.
Mayor Tom Ambrosino released the updated Capital Improvement Plan last week, and its entirety is available on the city’s website (www.revere.org). Among the highlights in the plan are the priorities for the street paving and sidewalk program. This summer, crews will finish up work on the Revere Street neighborhood, including: •Pomona Street •Stowers Street...
Supreme Court denies city’s case
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the city’s case versus the adult video store, Moon-Lite Reader, which operates out of a storefront in Linden Square and formerly was located in Bell Circle. The city had filed a writ of certiorari earlier this year with the court to hear the case. The city...
Dunkin Donuts Exposed
For one drive-thru clerk, this was not the kind of tip she was looking for. Around 6 p.m. on May 30th, a man pulled around to the window of the Dunkin’ Donuts in Johnnie’s Foodmaster driving a brown motor vehicle. The clerk said he didn’t utter a word, but kept motioning towards his lap....
House Parties
Over the past few years, warm weather has meant more than outside activities in Revere. It has meant many more loud, late night parties. Police records over the past few years indicate that there are more complaints of loud house parties than in previous years. By our count, this year has been record setting....
Basil runing for Petruccelli’s seat
Carlo Basil announced last night that he will be seeking the state representative seat to be vacated by Anthony Petruccelli. Petruccelli’s victory in yesterday’s primary is expected to ignite a contest for his seat, which is confined to all of East Boston. Basil is a former high ranking Registry official with strong ties to...
Rizzo loses Senate battle
City Councillor Dan Rizzo lost his bid for State Senate on Tuesday by an unofficial margin of 2,349 votes. In a day of low voter turnout throughout the whole district, Rizzo unofficially got 5,193 votes to State Rep. Anthony Petruccelli’s 7,542 votes. Revere voters cast fewer than 5,000 ballots, which proved to be the...
Lots of input on Red Sox incident
Several people have responded to the article in the Journal and on this Blog about an incident on RHS Senior Day at the Red Sox game. There are more than 19 comments on the original entry – a very lively discussion about the use of alcohol among youths in the community and the consequences...
Down to the wire
Dan Rizzo and Anthony Petruccelli are going down to the wire this weekend, as the Memorial Day is not going to interfere with last minute campaigning. The showdown on Tuesday is likely to be decided by the size of the vote in Revere – with everything else following naturally. That is to say, if...
