Among the great futilities in my toil are the many complaints sent off to the Massachusetts Ethics Commission regarding possible conflicts of interest and improper financial disclosure on the part of Brookline officials. (It is no small convenience that I have the Commission’s fax number on speed dial).
Occasionally these complaints are returned with no [...]
Spend a few minutes on the sixth floor of Brookline Town Hall and you’re likely to hear that the Town’s Aaa bond rating is proof to the claim that Brookline town government is, in the words of its many mouthpieces, “Massachusetts’ best run municipality.”
But how do these ratings get determined? Well, Moody’s Investors Service, [...]
Here’s good reason to change the structure of Brookline Town Government from representative town meeting to a mayor/council form of government. The Town Clerk has published the product of the 240-member body - in the form of a warrant article - and it’s a joke. [see the warrant here]
What’s on the agenda for the [...]
With the Brookline Selectmen and Town Administrator Richard Kelliher presenting a Fiscal Year 2008 Budget that calls for eliminating three firefighters, two police officers and $2 million from the Schools budget, one might assume that this is a time of shared sacrifice among those who work out of the big box on Washington Street.
Think again.
Here [...]
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Well, for one thing I need to upgrade the web hosting service to a more reliable one. When I first launched On Brookline, I figured a site like this would generate, at most, 500 readers per month. I figured you’d have to be interested in local [...]
It’s always such a happy coincidence when the Brookline Selectmen decide to hold a public hearing on say, fee increases and forget to post notice of the hearing on their Web site. Because that’s what they’ve done in advance of tonight’s hearing on increasing refuse, parking meter and sign fees. (Visit the Town’s [...]
Nothing better defines the embarrassment one feels for Brookline Town Government than the residential development project at the former St. Aidan’s Catholic Church. Of course, a red face ought to be the product of ire in knowing that the Brookline Selectmen have thrown nearly all of the Town’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund proceeds at [...]
June 2007 will mark the one year anniversary of On Brookline. It’s been a wild ride and, thanks to the On Brookline community, this site is helping to change the policies and practices of Brookline Town Government.
In the next few weeks we’ll be working to retool On Brookline…moving from a site that consists entirely [...]
Word is that last night’s Advisory Committee (the people who put the rubber in rubber stamp) was overrun by the economic development lackeys who were there to warn against cutting the Commercial Coordinators position from the municipal budget. Robert Sperber, the chair of the Town’s Economic Development Advisory Board, led the torch parade on [...]
Archie has been following developments on the Urban Ring Project and has filed an important update in advance of a presentation to the Brookline Selectmen on Tuesday (3/27).
There’s a new wrinkle to the project as the Globe reports that Boston University is planning a new “campus center” in the area around the BU Bridge. [see [...]
