Parallel Universe.
By Jim Conley • Aug 31st, 2007 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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Remember when the Brookline Selectmen allowed the town’s chief engineer to negotiate a debilitating fee increase on the local farmer’s market? And remember how Selectman’s Chair (and Brookline PAX board member) Gil Hoy dismissed the fee increase as “rumor” (even though it had been memorialized in a document)?
Remember that farmer’s market debacle?
While reading the incomparable Paul Krugman in today’s New York Times, I’ve see once more just how much Brookline’s local government emulates their national counterparts (read: the Bush Administration).
Krugman reminds us that when reports began to surface of corpses in the Louisiana Covention Center during Hurricane Katrina, US Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff offered an oh so Brookline-like response.
He called the reports,”a rumor.”
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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Just think what our part-time Selectmen could accomplish if they did what they do to or for the Town full time.
September 13, 2007
Dear Jim –
I’m puzzled over your appearances in the Brookline TAB.
I see the current editor omits or rejects anything calling attention to failure or incompetence of the current U.S. administration.
How do you cope with the censorship?
– Craig Bolon
Fuller St., Brookline