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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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