As an update to an earlier post (see post), Town Administrator Richard Kelliher says that Brookline PD has the case of a highly publicized DWI and a connection to the Village Smokehouse (relative to their liquor license) “under review.”
I guess that’s progress.
There seem to be an awful lot of things “under review” down at the [...]
I suspect that people on the 6th floor of Brookline Town Hall thank whatever Gods there are for the considerable stenographing skills of those who contribute to the Boston Globe’s City Weekly section. The current correspondent, Andrea Downs, files a paean to outgoing Selectman Michael Merrill that reflects less than five weeks on the [...]
There’s a rather revealing “letter to the editor” in today’s TAB. A member of the Town’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee, John Dempsey, takes guest columnist Regina Frawley (see previous post) to task for saying that a bid to collect Brookline’s recycling materials went to an unqualified vendor.
I think Frawley’s point was that because the [...]
It’s hard to get all hopped up over Governor Patrick’s choice of wheels…a Cadillac DeVille. The DeVille is a more expensive ride than former Governor Romney’s Crown Victoria, so says today’s Globe. Talk about a media-induced controversy.
First of all, there’s a reason why Ford has slipped to the #3 car manufacturer in the US…they [...]
Word has it that the Coolidge Corner Planning Council - the group ostensibly charged with establishing an urban vision for that area - is likely to push for a “public commons” in place of the current Centre Street parking lot. The idea is to use the town-owned property as a kind of village green [...]
I want to believe that the reason Brookline’s streets are in such terrible shape is because DPW Commissioner A. Thomas DeMaio is frightened by the idea of having to appear before the selectmen and ask for $1 million to cover overspending in the snow clearing budget, as he did last year…during a winter drought.
But that [...]
Can you be Massachusetts’ best run municipality (as is asserted ad nauseam by those who run Brookline town government) and lose control over managing your pension fund at the same time? We may find out.
Under a proposal floated by the Patrick Administration (and reported in today’s Globe), the Commonwealth would take over municipal pensions that [...]
If there’s a better reporter/producer on television than Frontline’s Lowell Bergman, I don’t know who it is. And his recent series “News War” doesn’t disappoint.
You can watch Part 1 of Frontline’s News War here.
The series looks at the use of confidential sources (among the Washington media) and adresses its peril in today’s political environment. [...]
In the reporting over the Dennis DeWitt demotion (available here), I said that there may be a need for a Part III on this story. And to do so, doesn’t require a lot of words. In fact, there’s a simple question that needs to be answered by Brookline’s Building Commissioner and the Zoning [...]
Someone alert Brookline Selectman’s Chair Robert Allen (see previous column). I’m hearing that more than a few residents are filing requests to get public records out of the big box on Washington Street.
And no one’s getting any. Ah, tradition.
How does Massachusetts’ best run community (the unofficial Brookline Town Government motto) protect itself from waste and fraud among its employee legion? Well, as Archie Mazmanain points out in the fourth part of his series concerning the Town’s policy on whistleblowers, you scare the bejeesus out of the employee before he or she even [...]
Boy, that back of the telephone book and radio advertising sure is paying off for Brookline Selectmen’s Chair Robert (radio name Bob) L. Allen, Jr.
According to filings with the Norfolk Registry of Deeds, Allen’s handling the financing for new Red Sox shortstop Julio Lugo, as he purchases property at 49 Woodland Road for $3.2 million.
Perhaps we can use the precedent that has been set by demoting long time Brookline Preservation Commission Dennis DeWitt toward actually improve other corners of town government.
Let’s start with the Brookline Building Commission.
The DeWitt demotion appears to be the product of Selectman’s Chair Robert L. Allen’s public responsibilities extending into his corporate attorney’s role for [...]
From Hotline (link here), the on-line political site from the National Journal, it seems that their so-called future’s market (on people with national political ambition) is bullish on purported candidate for Selectman Jesse Mermell. Says Hotline, on “the stars we’ve been watching since 03″:
“MA Women’s Political Caucus Exec. Dir. Jesse Mermell (D): A former member [...]
“A mensch in a selectman’s suit.”
Town meeting member, PAX co-chair and self-proclaimed legal ethicist Martin Rosenthal endorsing Brookline Board of Selectmen Chair Robert L. Allen, Jr. during last May’s local election.
Update: Archie has this in the comments section:
“This is the same Marty Rosenthal whose letter to the TAB was critical of my four part Guest [...]
