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Today is Monday, December 16 and according to a citywide proposal, the Boston Public Library is considering adding apartments to four branches in the West End, Dorchester and Roxbury that are already slated for renovations a first for the city, read more on WBGH.

Heres what you need to know for the week ahead

3:30PM Crafternoon. Join the North End Library at 25 Parmenter Street and use different art supplies to create a project to take home. Ideal for kids 3-7 years old.

6:30PM Boston Tea Party 240th Anniversary. This year marks the 246th Anniversary of The Boston Tea Party! Boston will be celebrating with one of the largest theatrical moving performances in the US.The public will experience one of Americas most iconic public protests live where more than 100 reenactors from across New England bring to life the story of The BostonTea Party and theatrically recreate the infamous evening of December, 16, 1773, see additional details here.

The New England Aquarium said in a letter to the citys assessor that the nonprofit will not be making the voluntary in-lieu-of tax cash payments to the city of Boston this fiscal year suggesting its cultural institution already contributes enough to the local government and does not receive similar support as to other institutions of its kind in other states, read more on Commonwealth Magazine.

Wednesday, December 18

3:00PM Kids LEGO Club. Drop by the North End Library after school to build whatever you can imagine using LEGOs and DUPLOs.

6:30PM Book Discussion Club. Join the North End Library at 25 Parmenter Street for their monthly book club. Decembers book is Richard Russos 2009 novel That Old Cape Magic. Copies of the book may be picked up at the librarys front desk.

7:00PM Cape Air Long Wharf Dock Information Session. Cape Air is looking into serving Boston with seaplanes to create a downtown-to-downtown connection between New York City using 9-seat seaplanes available to the public. Stop by the information session in the Commonwealth Ballroom at the Longwarf Marriott at 296 State Street to learn more about their proposal. Read more here.

Thursday, December 19

6:30PM Nazzaro Center Cookie Exchange at 30 North Bennet Street. The Nazzaro Center is hosting its very first cookie exchange and getting into the holiday spirit by listening to music and socializing with friends, old and new, see additional details here.

7:00PM Burlesque 101. Join the West End Museum at 150 Staniford Street for a talk on Burlesque.The Old Howard Theatre exhibit curator Duane Lucia will share video clips as he traces burlesques history and evolution. $10 entry / free to museum members, see additional details here.

The BCYF is hosting a movie night for ages 10-12 on Friday, December 20 starting at 7 p.m. The cost is $5 and proceeds go directly to the can shares double up program, continue reading.

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Editors note: This column was filed on Thursday, the day after the House impeachment vote.

Donald Trump is the third U.S. President to be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives. Neither of the first two was convicted in the Senate, and I dont for a moment believe Trump will be.

It requires 67 Senators to vote for conviction which, given the current makeup of the Senate, would require 20 Republicans to vote to convict. And that isnt going to happen unless something even more scandalous is revealed before the vote. But even that might not be enough to force Republican Senators to consult their consciences rather than their re-election prospects.

The Republican Party no matter how often its members proclaim it is no longer the party of Lincoln. Frankly, it hasnt been for some time. But it has now indisputably become the party of Trump. That has driven some fairly well known people out of the party including columnist George Will, conservative Congressman Justin Amish, and former Congressman Charlie Dent. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich regularly appears on television news shows condemning Trump and castigating fellow Republicans for supporting him.

I know more than a few Republican office holders and activists who privately condemn Trump but wont say so publicly. Several congressional reporters from national media outlets say many Republican Senators privately grumble about Trump but also will not say so publicly.

The reason is simple: theyre afraid Trump supporters will abandon them in a Republican primary for a Trump supporter. Look at South Carolinas Lindsey Graham who used to emulate John McCain but would be an embarrassment to McCain now if the former POW and Arizona Senator were still alive. Graham initially called Trump a nut job. In October, Graham called Trumps decision to pull troops out of Syria a stain on Americas honor. Now he dismisses the charges against Trump and tells us hes had his mind made up about impeachment in advance of trial.

That brings us to Kentuckys Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader who will control the impeachment trial in the Senate.

Trump and McConnell are about as unlike as two people can be. One has zero self-discipline while the other is as disciplined a politician as Ive ever known. Trump is bombastic and crude; McConnell is generally polite and reserved even as he sticks the knife in an opponent with some sarcastic comment or well-aimed television ad.

McConnell labored for years to build todays Republican Party of Kentucky and he, more than any other person, turned the state red from blue. But just as he was on the cusp of realizing all his dreams turning Kentucky Republican and becoming Senate Majority Leader his party began to morph into something alien and unexpected.

First, Rand Paul took down a McConnell protg for the Senate. McConnell made peace with him but the rise of the Tea Party and later Matt Bevins Senate challenge and election as governor forced McConnell to worry about threats to his own political prospects from the right. Had he created a Republican Kentucky only to be rejected not by Democrats but by the right wing of his own party? Then came Trump.

Despite making nice, Bevin and McConnell never liked each other. Yet McConnell pushed for Bevin to run for re-election. Watching from afar, one had to wonder if McConnell worried Bevin, who seems to have become friends with Trump, might challenge McConnells bid for another term next year and Trump might endorse Bevin.

So, despite the Constitutions requirement that senators sitting in judgment of an impeached president shall be on Oath or Affirmation, McConnell has already declared his allegiance to Trump, telling Fox News, Everything I do during this, Im coordinating with the White House counsel and that there will be no difference between the presidents position and our position...

Im fairly confident thats not the way the Framers envisioned it working.

Ronnie Ellis is the former statehouse reporter for CNHI Kentucky and writes a weekly column. Follow him on Twitter @cnhifrankfort.

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Historians will write about this day, when the House of Representatives voted for just the third time in history to impeach a president. But history does not simply explode, it unfolds. The Dark Ages did not just happen, the Renaissance Era did not just dawn, and the Industrial Revolution did not just spark. Defining moments in history do not occur spontaneously. Their foundations are laid by disparate actors, crises, and movements.

When future generations look back at the state of our world, with the impeachment of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpMaxine Waters warns if Senate doesn't remove Trump, he'll 'invite Putin to the White House' Trump signs .4 T spending package, averting shutdown Twenty-five Jewish lawmakers ask Trump to fire Stephen Miller over 'white nationalist' comments MORE in America and the sweeping victory of Boris Johnson in Britain, these events will most likely not appear sudden or surprising. They will instead be understood as a public response to frightening trends like global terrorism and financial inequality, a public response that will, over time, be accepted or rejected by the citizenry.

The impeachment vote today was triggered by two distant events that occurred on September 11, 2001 and September 15, 2008 that forever changed the world. The fall of the Twin Towers robbed America of its sense of security, as two oceans no longer protected us from dangers abroad. An anxious public was fertile ground for sensational journalism, and media outlets like Fox News capitalized on this. The cable networks made it seem like beheadings and Ebola would soon reach our shores.

The overwhelming fear stoked by politicians and reporting driven by ratings led us to a dangerous cycle of bungled foreign policy, sustained global terrorism, and xenophobia. Our catastrophic decision to plunge into the war in Iraq, propelled by anxiety and bad information, prolonged and complicated the war in Afghanistan. Mismanagement helped create the Islamic State, which fueled a refugee crisis that flooded Europe. The refugee crisis was met with alarm, and that alarm was translated into a sense of nationalism by European leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary and Nigel Farage in Britain. A startling sequence was activated, in which many leaders encouraged the worse public impulses for political gain.

Meanwhile, the 2008 recession triggered by the fall of Lehman Brothers rattled our financial security. This radical economic change left working people with perpetual anxiety. Globalization, automation, and migration rapidly altered the job market. People woke up to neighborhoods whose landscapes transformed overnight, with fewer brick and mortar retailers, bookstores, and supermarkets. Suddenly people were told not to take a taxi, but order an Uber. At the same time, mechanisms to regulate our economy had failed us. Unchecked greed proved less than good. The middle class, the great stabilizing force in United States history, shrank and shriveled. This again created a panicked public eager for change.

In 2016, escalating frustration and fear mongering won the presidential election. Candidate Trump took advantage and used exaggeration to link Hillary Clinton to the wealthy elite, accusing her of rigging the economy against the working class, while falsely portraying himself as an outsider and a foil to the big banks. Trump spewed flagrantly racist language to blame immigrants for upheaval in the job market and fueled fears about domestic terrorism. A Democratic Party propelled by rationalism and five point proposals fell out of sync with an electorate moved by gut instinct.

In 2019, the latest victory for populism happened in the British election. But this does not guarantee the success of the movement it represents. The electorate in America is not Trumpian. It is swerving in search of the government it wants. In 2008, the electorate voted for change by electing Barack Obama as president. In 2010, it voted for change by electing a Tea Party Republican Congress to check him. In 2012, it voted for change by reelecting Obama to check the Tea Party Republican Congress. In 2014, it voted for change by adding more Senate Republicans to check Obama. In 2016, it voted for change by electing Trump in repudiation of both parties. In 2018, it voted for a Democratic House majority in repudiation of Trump.

This zigzagging shows us the degree to which change is responsive rather than rapid. Only when a movement and its consequences have come into the public eye do we choose to reject the status quo and move ahead with an alternative. Confronted by a future we do not care to contemplate, we are forced to consider how we got here and how to correct our course.

Steve IsraelSteven (Steve) J. IsraelThe Hill's Morning Report - In historic vote, House impeaches Trump How in the world did we get here? The Hill's Campaign Report: 2020 Democrats trading jabs ahead of Los Angeles debate MORE represented New York in Congress for 16 years and served as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from 2011 to 2015. He is now the director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at Cornell University. You can find him on Twitter @RepSteveIsrael.

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NEWTON - On a night that those in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump had organized a rally on the Newton Green, the group instead ended up a no-show, though a group against impeachment did show.

Earlier on Tuesday local organizers of the Sussex County NJ Impeach & Remove Rally had planned to continue with their rally, but the group later changed plans and posted on the website of the organization MoveOn, they had moved their rally, originally scheduled at 7 p.m. Tuesday, to 7 p.m. Wednesday, on the Newton Green.

Everyones safety is of utmost importance and we don't want to risk anyone getting hurt on the ice, the message on the groups rally page read.

The Sussex County rally was one of many rallies across the nation organized by MoveOn for Tuesday, an organization that touts itself as one for social justice and political progress.

Though the pro-impeachment group, which claimed to have 291 attendees signed up for its rally on the MoveOn page, did not show, a pro-Trump rally continued on the Green in its place.

On Tuesday night, a group of about 10 from the Skylands Tea Party and other organizations from as far away as Middlesex County, made a showing. According to William Hayden, president of the Skylands Tea Party, the group would normally counter across from the Green. However, with the MoveOn protesters a no-show, approximately 10 minutes after the rally was scheduled, Hayden and his group gathered their signage; and, after a short Facebook Live broadcast from the Newton Green gazebo, took to the sidewalk along Park Place.

I guess the snowflakes dont like ice, Hayden commented to the group.

Hayden said he was pleased with the turnout at the Green; and said that many from the area who were pro-Trump, headed to a counter-rally in Newburgh. Hayden and the group remained at the Green until shortly before 8 p.m.; and received supportive beeps and waves from passing cars.

Hayden, like the others on the Green, believed the legislative branch is not entitled to documents and testimony that Congress wanted from Trump.

Rich Hedderick, vice president of the Skylands Tea Party, described the investigation as one-sided and called it a big waste of taxpayer money. Hedderick said if the Democrats wished to impeach Trump, they should have at the get-go, but said if they had, they would have failed miserably.

John Borowic, a demonstrator from Wantage, described the impeachment attempt against Trump a political stunt; and Jason Vaughan, also of Wantage, said those against Trump know the claims made against him are untrue.

Debra McGuinn of Woodbridge, said she switched from Democrat to Republican after James McGreevey put his hat in the ring for New Jerseys governors seat. She said throughout the years, she asked for help from the Democrats, including for a relative with special needs; and was turned down. McGuinn however said, she is not afraid to challenge a Republican and would vote for whomever is the best candidate. She said the impeachment is not right and she called it a scam.

Barbara Holstein of Montague said she switched parties after President Barack Obama initiated the healthcare mandates. She said those targeting Trump for impeachment do not have a case and refuse to accept that; and instead have been having a tantrum for the last three years.

What they are doing now (those seeking impeachment) is threatening democracy, Holstein said.

On Tuesday night, Trump posted on the White House website a letter he sent to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, stating the articles of impeachment include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.

The organizers of the Sussex County rally posted on MoveOn, if the House votes on impeachment before Wednesdays rally, the focus will instead, be on the upcoming Senate trial.

Jennifer Jean Miller can also be reached by phone at: 973-383-1230; on Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/JMillerNJH and on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JMillerNJH.

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A Burnham-based homecare provider hosted a Christmas afternoon tea party on Wednesday, December 4, in a bid to tackle loneliness among older people.

Bluebird Care took about 80 customers and their families to The Grovefield House Hotel to enjoy some festive fun with entertainment and music from All That Jazz.

Attendees were treated to an afternoon tea featuring party hats, Christmas crackers, festive bingo and a demonstration into the art of bell ringing.

The organisation, rated outstanding by the CQC, also provided transport for some customers, ensuring they did not miss out on the festive fun.

Anne Inglis, Bluebird Care director, said: We organise the event each year so that as many of the people that we care for as possible can get out in their local community and celebrate the spirit of Christmas with others.

We urge people to support older people over Christmas, calling on their neighbours, friends and family who may live alone and would not normally see anyone over the festive period.

We are extremely grateful to everyone who gave their time to make the day so special for so many of our customers. Huge thanks also to both The Grovefield House Hotel and to Leah and Phil from All That Jazz - we could not have done it without such great support.

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