The vote last night by Brookline’s Housing Advisory Board - or HAB - releasing $625 thousand from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to prop up the Boston Archdiocese’s St. Aidan’s project was, of course, pro forma. The ballot was 4-1 (with Rita McNally voting no) that the funds be disbursed.
There’s a lot that can [...]
Looking through the list of Brookline-based donors to former Selectman Deborah Goldberg’s campaign for Lt. Governor, it’s not surprising that it reads like a Who’s Who of Brookline real estate development. They’re all there - Basile, Brown, Zuker, et. al.
The $3,000 in donations tied to Roger Cassin of Winn Development is surprising, though. Certainly, [...]
Good news. The Washington Post reports today that anti-incumbent fever is sweeping the country.
The bad news is that even if Democrats take over the US House of Representatives, it will make little difference to those of lower and middle income station. They have no juice in the halls of power.
Recently, the Globe’s Spotlight team [...]
Word from the Globe has it that former Brookline Selectman Deborah Goldberg is pumping an additional $1 million of her personal fortune into her campaign for Massachusetts Lt. Governor.
Sounds like she’s got Joementum.
The spectacle of a rich person running a vanity campaign is always a bit sad. But when the person thinks that a [...]
…is near it appears. According to the Brookline Housing Advisory Board’s August 9th agenda, they’ll go into executive session that evening to, “discuss pending litigation and (a) proposed settlement.” This, of course, has to be the suit brought by 75 residents of the Town.
Also on tap is a discussion a request to release [...]
With the opening of the warrant for the November Town Meeting (and with a deadline for submitting articles of August 30th), as a public service onbrookline.com offers a list of suggestions for Warrant Articles (local legislative bills) to right our municipal ship.
It’s not within my brief to submit articles, nor would they have a chance [...]
According to Town Clerk Pat Ward, the Zoning Board of Appeals will be briefed by Town Counsel in executive session during their meeting tomorrow night. The ZBA has tentatively scheduled a public hearing (on St. Aidan’s) for August 24th.
Now, why Town Counsel Jennifer Dopazo is briefing the ZBA (presumably on a lawsuit where both [...]
Onbrookline.com is hearing that Brookline’s Housing Advisory Board (HAB) is set to release another $1.7 million in affordable housing funds to the Boston Archdiocese’s real estate development group for its St. Aidan’s project. Or so says this document circulated at HAB’s June meeting.
It’s not clear whether the total, or a portion of the $1.7 [...]
