Remember how the proponents of a 3% tax surcharge (or CPA) for Brookline told us that the program was a smashing success in Newton? Remember that?
Never mind.
Want to know how bad things are looking? Read the front page TAB story concerning Brookline’s tax classification hearing held on Tuesday and you’ll get the picture.
There are so many atrocities in those column inches, it’s impossible to document them. The grand narrative is this, though - the people who think they know [...]
Seems that the blogger Atrios - if you know political blogging you know who he is - is using the word chump in his railings on America’s Right Wing.
Doesn’t he know that these are good people who are bound to make mistakes?
Despite voters rejecting a 3% tax surcharge to fund low priority items in the municipal budget, the Town’s finance team is pressing ahead with a $26 million Capital Improvement Plan. $16 million of that will go to a Town Hall renovation that features new employee lounges.
It is quite clear that the top priority for [...]
Each year as the Brookline Municipal Budget is introduced, the Selectmen get all hopped up over their success at having, “balanced the budget without the need for layoffs.” It always feels like saving town employees from the budget axe is more than a matter of noblesse oblige to the Selectmen.
I had figured that most [...]
From Selectman Michael Merrill (concerning campaign finance data), as reported in today’s TAB: “Statistics mean nothing.”
Now that’s the kind of unenlightened thinking we’ve come to expect from Merrill. Remember this quote when it becomes apparent that the Town did not pay attention - or respond to - the statistical data that showed a worsening [...]
Check out the end of this posting on the Town of Brookline’s Web site calling for a Transportation Engineer.
“Current traffic engineering software, excellent communication skills, BSCE, MA E.I.T and 5 years’ traffic engineering experience required. Salary $61K with generous benefits (emphasis added).”
Give them credit for truth in advertising. Other employers might say “competitive [...]
Throughout the debate concerning a 3% tax surcharge for community preservation, we heard many in town government say that Brookline is experiencing a “structural deficit.”
I don’t know what that is, and apparently neither do the people who throw the term around. The closest I can come to defining structural deficit is this: “Structural deficit is [...]
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On election night, I wrote that a Democratic House and Senate would be bad for capitalists and result in more consumer-interested policies. Today’s Globe has this from 4th District Congressman Barney Frank:
“I’m a capitalist, and that means I’m for inequality,” Frank told Boston business leaders on the morning after Election Day, in [...]
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If you want to see a true horror film, watch the HBO Documentary Hacking Democracy. It can be found on a cable system’s on-demand feature.
The film is chilling not just for its expose’ on election software flaws, but in representing the lengths to which a citizen must go to get the documents [...]
