This is hysterical. In today’s Herald, a story concerning the recent out-of-the-ballpark travails of Red Sox owner John Henry says this:
“Now, even as the Sox have posted their second World Series win in four seasons, the Brookline Preservation Commission wants to delay Henry’s plans to knock down the mansion on Frank McCourt’s former [...]
As previously reported, the idea of making a permanent a Coolidge Corner Planning Council (where people affected by development get a say) is going off to the Town’s Committee on Organization and Town Structure (which is about as useful as the Economic Development Board).
Speaking of useless, get this from the recommendation for further study on [...]
More good news on the housing market…prices are expected to decrease by 7 percent in major US markets. It baffles me that some in Brookline believe we are immune from housing price pressure. Even more so after seeing that consumer confidence ratings are in steep decline (from the New York Times).
Why, for the love if [...]
Question: It’s been a week since it was first reported that two Brookline officials - Jennifer Dopazo and Frank Hitchcock - were involved in a seemingly fabricated report to police during the May 24th Brawl at Town Hall, why hasn’t anything happened?
Answer: Bless you child, but nothing is going to happen. We’re talking about the [...]
Word on the street is that one arm of Brookline town government’s co-operative extension for real estate developers (the housing department) is calling around to say that construction at the St. Aidan’s housing project “will begin in about two weeks.”
It’s really not construction but destruction that will get under way soon. See, the first [...]
We hear a lot about so-called bubbles in finance and business - those market cycles where the irrational behavior of investors fuel company and market valuations not allowed by reality. Money (or capital) is the air that both serves as the structure and potential destruction of the metaphoric bubble.
A bubble is created when controls are [...]
Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat says, “the only way to find the missing something is to find out where it’s not.” Archie adds to his Urban Ring series and asks whether this massive (which has morphed into the shape of the cat’s chapeau) project’s funding is that missing something.
Time to call Thing 1 [...]
Remember the St. Aidan’s housing project that is, “going to begin construction during the last week of October?” And remember back in June when the Brookline Selectmen threw another $1.7 million at the project to bring the total public funds commitment to over $6 million? And remember how the Boston Archdiocese [...]
For those readers visiting in search of the Brookline Police Department’s report from an internal investigation (covering allegations of racial bias from the Brawl at Town Hall and due out today), I don’t have it. I’ll probably get a copy of the report; but I’m not sure I’m going to post it any time [...]
It’s a mystery to me why the Brookline School Committee and parents are going all Armageddon over school financing for the coming years. The schools have been getting screwed by the 6th floor of Town Hall for years. Mostly this has to do with the ridiculous Town/School partnership that theoretically gives half of [...]
