Looks like Barack Obama’s message of change rained down on Brookline yesterday - he polled 55 percent of the Democratic vote to Hillary Clinton’s 44 percent.
Better yet, the turnout was nearly 63 percent of registered voters.
Next up is the May local election that is looking increasingly competitive at the selectmen’s level. Pinch me, [...]
The TAB’s Jessica Scarpati reports that we have our first serious non-incumbent declared for the May selectman’s race - town meeting member Richard Benka. I don’t quite understand the Benka candidacy consisting as motivated by Gil Hoy’s announcement that he’ll stand for re-election. Anyway, it looks like a race.
Nancy, we hardly knew ya.
Update: Benka [...]
What’s going on with the Brookline Selectmen’s blue ribbon committee panel of experts to advise them on police review procedures? Beats me.
I thought that panel members were going to be interviewed at tonight’s meeting. But according to Town Administrator Richard Kelliher, there’s no need for that because the selectmen heard the list of [...]
Archie has added to his “World of Brookline Zoning” series and says that, when it comes to Brookline’s recent zoning battles, to the victor go the parking spaces.
Read the installment here.
By Arshag A. Mazmanian
The dust has yet to settle on the mass resignations of ZBA members last fall and the recent resignation of Building Commissioner Jim Nickerson that may have been causally connected to the May 24th Town Hall Brawl triggered by a ZBA decision just prior thereto, which the ZBA reversed several weeks [...]
Question: Why does Brookline need a civilian review board to handle citizen complaints into police department actions?
Answer: Well, besides the obvious reason that the police can’t investigate themselves, it puts control of department investigation into the hands of residents. The idea is not to put new pressure on officers, but to remove politics from [...]
This is funny. A few days back I started receiving messages from political types in Brookline saying that their caller ID had registered a call from the “Law Offices of Robert Allen.” The calls came to them late in the evening, and given that these weren’t supporters of the former selectmen’s chair, they [...]
This is strange. The Brookline Selectmen have posted their meeting agenda for Tuesday, and it says that they are going to take up the question of “adopting a charge and appointing” their sham panel of experts to review citizen complaints against the police department.
Hmmm. A couple of Tuesdays ago, I’m pretty sure I heard the [...]
My calendar says it’s February 1st, not the first of April. But I’ve just received an e-mail from Fran “The Snitch” Price (upon my request to get a copy of a construction contract for the project at St. Aidan’s) that reads:
“With regard to your request, please be advised that the construction
contract with Capitol [Construction] [...]
In doing research for a piece on the Proposition 2.5 over-ride coming to the ballot soon, I came across this passage from the Moody’s Credit Rating Advisory for the Town of Brookline:
“Going forward, management anticipates that recent zoning updates to height requirements will continue to encourage new commercial growth, particularly along the Route 9 and [...]
