Who's beating around the bushes in Brookline?
By adamg - Mon, 06/04/2007 - 7:17pm.
Brookline weirdness 1: Somebody is stealing bushes along the rebuilt Beacon Street.
Brookline weirdness 2: Town Meeting members have a Yahoo mailing list that they won't let other residents see.
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i am so glad i dont live in
i am so glad i dont live in brookline.
ah .. er ...
you probably couldn't afford to live in Brookline.
if you can afford to live
if you can afford to live anywhere in, or surrounding the city, you can afford Brookline. heck, I pay about the same in Brookline as I paid in Quincy.
really?
When I was looking to buy 2 years ago, I had Brookline included in my MLS search for homes under $350K (with no other filters included in the search except for price and towns). Nothing ever came up. I did get hits for "as-is" homes in East Cambridge and nice-but-300sf places in the Back Bay. Nothing ever came up in Brookline though. So, yeah, I would say that at least for the 3 months or so that I was searching MLS listings, Brookline was more expensive than other areas of the city.
Ni!
Brrring me a shrubbbery!
Were you saying Ni! to that
Were you saying Ni! to that old woman?
She turned me into a newt!
She turned me into a newt!
Then lets get a town meeting member
... to weigh her. If she weighs as much as a duck, then she's a witch!
We'll have to discuss punishments on the secret blog.
It's a fair cop.
It's a fair cop.
Umm, open meeting laws?
If it was just a place for town meeting members (who are elected, but who don't strike me as "real" elected officials) to figure out who was bringing the Starbucks, that might be one thing. But this seems to be real government business going on in the group, which IMNSHO should be subject to Open Meeting Laws. Sure, they aren't in a physical room together. Tough. The public is absolutely entitled to know what is discussed when elected representatives talk with each other. If they need to go into executive session, then do it at a physical meeting and have a damn good reason for excluding the public.
-- Dave Adams
Teacher, Engineer, Dad, Bicyclist
Stolen shrubs
When I was in high school we did a school clean-up/beautification project that involved planting new bushes in front of the school. We did this on a Saturday and the bushes were stolen by Monday. Apparently, this is something unreputable landscapers do. So be wary of guys offering to sell you some bushes cheap. He'll probably just steal them right back from you.