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On Brookline Reprise (4).

By Jim Conley • Jul 3rd, 2007 • Category: Brookline Selectmen, Condo and Metro, The Allen Files

Last week the Brookline Selectmen put Robert Allen on sentry as the Town commits more public funds to the slippery slope at St. Aidan’s.  Allen was one of the first in official Brookline to push for the housing development at the Church site and has been nothing if not contemptuous of the neighborhood.
So why tap [...]


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Summerset Reprise.

By Jim Conley • Apr 1st, 2007 • Category: Condo and Metro, The Allen Files

Now seems like a good time to highlight a story I first reported last month on the condo unit owned - and bought at a discount from the owners a Brookline realty group - by Brookline Selectman’s Chair Robert L. Allen, Jr.
Click here to read the story.


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Jesse Stands by Her Mentor.

By Jim Conley • Mar 21st, 2007 • Category: Brookline Politics, Condo and Metro, Liquor Licenses, Spooner Road, The Allen Files

I’ll give Brookline Selectman’s candidate Jesse Mermell credit, she’s not budging from her support of her campaign co-chair (and Selectman’s Chairman) Robert L. Allen. That’s awesome!
I asked Jesse if she has any thoughts on the revelations - at this site and other places - concerning Chairman Allen’s seeming difficulty with public integrity.
You know, [...]


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Chairman Allen is Summerset Mum.

By Jim Conley • Mar 18th, 2007 • Category: Condo and Metro, The Allen Files

An On Brookline Exclusive.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a rather curious item. Curious and convoluted, that is. It seems that Brookline Selectman’s Chair Robert L. Allen, Jr. is part owner (as trustee) of a condominium unit which was sold to a partner in his law firm for $18 thousand [...]


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