Here’s a copy of the lease between Children’s Hospital, developer Roger Cassin and the Brookline Selectmen. The lease will be* approved at the Selectmen’s meeting on Tuesday [click here to view the lease].
What’s with the 95-year term? Forty years suffices in most deals, both on the lending and securitization sides. Also, it seems [...]
“I picked up my bag, I went looking for a place to hide;
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walking side by side.
I said, ‘Hey, Carmen, come on, let’s go downtown.’
She said, ‘I gotta go, but my friend can stick around.’”
- “The Weight”, Robbie Robertson
I’d just assume forget the events that transpired over the last [...]
What’s that saying on things too good to be true?
Looks like we could use it when it comes to the ground lease the town is negotiating with Children’s Hospital to build an “administrative building” at the site known as the B2 Parcel.
The deal hinges on a non-profit institution voluntarily agreeing to pay rent in lieu [...]
The TAB runs an editorial [read here] in tomorrow’s edition that calls for Gil Hoy to “come clean” on the circumstances surrounding his resignation as chair of the Brookline Board of Selectmen.
Maybe.
But suppose for a moment that reporters had not been told of some mysterious “contact” between Hoy and Boston Police from the lips of [...]
“I wanted to find out what was going on….It’s better off that we found the truth of what happened.” - Brookline Police Chief Dan O’Leary explaining to TAB reporter Jessica Scarpati why he conducted an investigation into allegations swirling around Selectman Gil Hoy [see story].
Brookline Police Chief Daniel O’Leary on the hunt for the truth? [...]
I’m having a hard time getting my head around the ground lease deal Town Counsel Jennifer Dopazo has negotiated with Children’s Hospital. She apparently believes that dangling half million dollar incentives (to construct) in front of the Hospital is going to result in a “building of some magnitude”, a building that will ensure taxable [...]
Remember back in April when this site picked up a Boston Herald story that showed what results from a real auditing function in a city government? Remember how auditors found scores of no-bid contracts in the City of Everett [read post]?
Remember that?
Yesterday, voters in Everett booted Mayor John Hanlon from office [see story].
Folks, this [...]
A nagging question on the resignation of Gil Hoy as Chair of the Brookline Board of Selectmen is this: Why would Hoy resign the chairmanship of the Board of Selectmen but not his seat?
I have a theory.
The thing to know about the Chairman’s job is that it principally consists of working with Town Administrator [...]
Question: Why has Gil Hoy resigned as Chair of the Brookline Board of Selectmen (though he will retain his seat on the Board)?
Answer: Hoy says he has resigned for “personal reasons.” This coincides with a rather vicious smear campaign waged against him over the weekend. I can only speculate that he lost [...]
Alright folks, take a deep breath. Here’s what we actually know about the circumstances leading to Gil Hoy’s resignation as Chair of the Brookline Board of Selectmen - nothing.
Hoy says he resigned for “personal reasons.” That’s good enough for me. But apparently that’s not good enough for the hacks at Brookline [...]
Jessica Scarpati at the TAB is reporting that Gil Hoy is stepping down as chairman of the Brookline Board of Selectmen for “personal reasons” [see story].
There’s a lot more to say about this. Stay tuned.
Update: What the…?
In her report Scarpati says that Town Administrator Richard Kelliher has referred all questions to Police [...]
I suppose it means something that the Governor of the state with the second highest income per capita (Massachusetts) is compelled to license casinos to fund public services [read the Globe story].
Two things are true when it comes to Governor Patrick’s sop to the gaming industry. One, we’ve reached a low point as a culture [...]
Not that I’ve ever done it, but it seems to me that if you’re going to wage a vicious and personal smear campaign against another public official (or anyone for that matter), you ought to have some proof in support of the slime you’re spreading. And you ought to be smart enough not to [...]
“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.
It’d be funny, if it weren’t so tragic.
“Tell me why the first to ask;
Is the last to give every time.
What you say and do not mean;
Follows you close behind.”
- Ben Harper (”Diamonds on the Inside”)
