Reader JMR writes in to give me some love:
“Hey, I didn’t want to be one of the 9/10 people that think you are an angry wierd [sic] wacko that no one takes seriously, but I have to reconsider.
It is clear that you are not only a pathetic, lonely, selfish person, but that you [...]
There is such a thing as too much parking at Coolidge Corner, or so said Jeff Levine, Brookline’s planning director at last night’s meeting of the Brookline Developer’s Guild (i.e., the town’s Zoning by-law Committee). In a session chaired by our own Man in Full, Bobby Allen, the committee set in motion a plan to [...]
The TAB has a front pager announcing that Selectmen Gil Hoy and Nancy Daly will seek re-election in May. I don’t know why Hoy wants to put himself through that, considering his recent history. But given the frequency with which he changes his mind, he could pull out at any moment.
And oh, delight. [...]
I have reported below that the Town of Brookline settled a civil complaint with a group of plaintiffs in the case that the selectmen refer to as Hicks vs. Town of Brookline. I believe the reference to Geoffrey Hicks (in their executive session minutes) is an attempt to shield the real plaintiffs in the case [...]
Here is the 1992 so-called citizen’s complaint investigation by Brookline Police resulting from a 1992 field interrogation of Arthur Conquest. Though Conquest never made a formal complaint, Brian Sullivan, the deputy town administrator at the time, initiated the process on the basis of an “open letter” written by Conquest.
Here’s a passage from Sergeant W.D. [...]
Remember when this site and the TAB reported on the syndication of low income tax credits at the St. Aidan’s housing project? And remember how three town hall flunkies (Housing Advisory Board members Steven Heikin and Michael Jacobs, along with EDAB member Stephen Pratt-Otto) took to the TAB to say that MMA is the [...]
For a group who spends so much time in executive session, the Brookline Selectmen don’t seem to say much while in their Star Chamber. Recently, I received copies of the minutes of their 2007 super secret sessions and I know less now than I did before.
Take the minutes from the May 22, 2007 session [...]
Today’s endorsement of Barak Obama by Senator Edward Kennedy has me glum.
See, I figured that a Hillary Clinton presidency would mean good things for Brookline - mostly because I thought it meant that Brookline Selectman Jesse Mermell would cash in the chits earned from her campaign work (done at the expense of her public duties) [...]
It was a surprise to me, during last week’s selectmen’s meeting on the Arthur Conquest matter, to hear Brookline Police Chief Daniel O’Leary say that his department was to going to study the way in which no trespassing orders are issued and enforced by his department.
Surprised, because he’s five years too late.
Folks, this isn’t the [...]
Looking back on Tuesday’s installment of the Arthur Conquest follies, I think I know why the Brookline Selectmen are firmly in the grip of insanity.
Conquest presents them with an opportunity to be progressive in matters of civil rights. But town government’s ideology is that of the movement conservative - robbing the treasury, pitting us against [...]
