The New Selflessness.
By Jim Conley • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Brookline Advisory Committee, Brookline Override, Brookline Selectmen, Brookline Town Government, Brookline Town Meeting, Jesse Mermell, Nancy Daly, Previous Columns, Robert Allen, St. Aidan's, The Allen FilesI’ll tell you what’s selfish - it’s school administrators and teachers whipping parents into a state of fear so as to vote them a pay raise. It’s the selectmen and the school committee unwilling to manage their $200 and $70 million budgets, respectively, in a way that avoids a tax increase on the elderly, who now get to choose between winter heat and paying their property tax bill.
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Brookline Does a Flashdance.
By Jim Conley • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Betsy DeWitt, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Police, Brookline Selectmen, Brookline Town Government, Gil Hoy, Jesse Mermell, Nancy Daly, Previous Columns, Robert Allen, The Allen FilesWait a minute. Don’t voters have the right to know of Hoy’s traffic transgression before the election? Sure. But Hoy is also due that the charges be aired by more reliable sources than his opponent and her two campaign chairs (Selectmen Bobby Allen and Jesse Mermell). Voters also have the right to know that these three “colleagues” were likely lying when they said that they had first heard of the badge flash from Hoy himself.
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On Brookline Selectman Nancy Daly.
By Jim Conley • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, Brookline Zoning, Campaigns, Gil Hoy, Jesse Mermell, Nancy Daly, Robert Allen, St. Aidan'sOh, where to begin.
If, after reading this site, for even the shortest period of time a voter is confused on the merits of re-electing Nancy Daly to the Brookline Board of Selectmen, let me put it to you this way — there are none.
Nancy Daly is nothing if not contemptuous of the public interest. [...]
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Blowback.
By Jim Conley • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, Brookline Town Government, Campaigns, Gil Hoy, Jesse Mermell, Nancy Daly, Robert AllenMy ear is bleeding from being on the phone all day on this TAB political hit job [see post below].
Seems to me that the paper has really stepped in it. You just can’t run a story like this a few days before an election. Especially when the sources are a candidate (Nancy with [...]
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Trust in the Invisble.
By Jim Conley • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Betsy DeWitt, Brookline Override, Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, Campaigns, Jesse MermellBrookline Selectmen Betsy DeWitt and Jesse Mermell take to the TAB’s op-ed page to urge a yes vote on the May 6th override ballot bailout. It’s like the surgeon who amputated the wrong leg asking you for the chance to reattach it. Yikes.
There are lots of whoppers in these 700 words, but this [...]
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Oh No She Ditint Say That (2).
By Jim Conley • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, Brookline Town Government, Jesse Mermell, Nancy DalyAt last night Selectmen’s meeting, Board Chair Nancy Daly said (I’m working from memory):
“Selectman (Jesse) Mermell wanted me to announce that she is not at tonight’s meeting because she is home sick. No, she’s not out campaigning; she wanted me to tell people that she really is sick. And she is probably watching us [...]
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Police Panel to Perform on Wednesday.
By Jim Conley • Feb 23rd, 2008 • Category: Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Police, Brookline Town Government, Jesse Mermell, Nancy DalyThe panel appointed to review Brookline’s police complaint procedures will stage Act I on Wednesday at 6 PM in the main library’s conference room. On Brookline will be covering the performance and provide the opening night review.
On another note, there’s still no word on a date for Selectman Nancy Daly’s “White Person’s Symposium on [...]
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Suddenly, the Choice Is Clear.
By Jim Conley • Feb 2nd, 2008 • Category: Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, Jesse Mermell, Robert AllenThis 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 [...]
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Kennedy Kills My Audacious Hope.
By Jim Conley • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, Jesse MermellToday’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) [...]
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No Town for Old Boys.
By Jim Conley • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Police, Brookline Selectmen, Brookline Town Government, Jesse Mermell, The Allen FilesLooking 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 [...]
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