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News and commentary (mostly commentary) on events in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Archive for April, 2008

Brookline Needs to Finance the Gate.

By Jim Conley • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Brookline Override Ballot, Brookline Selectmen, Schools

Well, it looks like the contours of the pro-override campaign are beginning to take shape, and it has me concerned over what will happen should town government be bailed out of the mess it’s created.
Looks to me like the Proverrider’s message is that the Override Study Committee says that a tax increase is needed in [...]



Time Is Money.

By Jim Conley • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: St. Aidan's

Something’s bothering me when it comes to the asbestos and lead removal going on at the St. Aidan’s housing project. How do you get a suspected 7,500 sq. feet of asbestos material out of a 150 year-old building, look for additional material in the walls and floors and remove it from the premises in [...]



Surface Cuts Don’t Always Need Band-aids.

By Jim Conley • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Brookline Override Ballot, Schools, Town Finances

The news for overriders in Massachusetts was not good yesterday. As the Globe reports, three out of the four measures on the ballot failed. And only did a measure in Randolph pass because the school system there was threatened with a state takeover.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what’s going on [...]



Benka Shows Up.

By Jim Conley • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Brookline Selectmen, Brookline, MA Politics, Campaigns, Robert Allen, St. Aidan's

Gee, you would think that after imposing the burden of the St. Aidan’s housing project on residents around Pleasant Street, our selectmen would show up to hear their neighbor’s concerns over lead and asbestos abatement.  You’d be wrong.
Sure, Bobby Allen was on hand to provide his concierge service to this developer.  But no others made [...]