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Tag Archives: People’s Republic of Brookline
Town of Brookline’s Latest Ban Is Truly a Coup de Foie Gras
The hardworking staff has been a (mostly) proud resident of the People’s Republic of Brookline for a (mostly) good 45 years, so we were understandably drawn to this item in Steph Solis and Mike Deehan’s always informative Axios Boston yesterday. It’s … Continue reading
Rest Easy, Brookliners: The Single-Space Parking Meters Are Back In Coolidge Corner
As the hardworking staff noted last spring, there’s been a major kerfuffle in Brookline over the parking meters in Coolidge Corner and elsewhere. The People’s Republic of Brookline is all aTwitter over the new multispace parking meters that recently replaced single-space meters … Continue reading
There’ll Always Be A Brookline (Apologies To The New Yorker)
The People’s Republic of Brookline is all aTwitter over the new multispace parking meters that recently replaced single-space meters around town. From Sunday’s Boston Globe: Outcry over new parking meters An outcry against the multispace parking meters that replaced hundreds … Continue reading
Brookline: Cameras No, Fingerprints Yes
The People’s Republic of Brookline, which has a recent history of reluctantly approving police surveillance cameras, seems to have no such qualms about fingerprinting suspect characters such as antique dealers, taxi drivers, and used car salesmen. Via this week’s Brookline … Continue reading
Dead Blogging the Massachusetts Senate Election
All day Tuesday, you got the sense that only the Ladies Who Lunch in the People’s Republic of Brookline still believed that Martha Coakley could actually win the U.S. Senate race. It was special, alright: • When the polls closed … Continue reading