Brookline beat

For years people in Texas have threatened state secession, often in jest tinged with earnestness.  Before the Civil War, the South seceded from the North to form the Confederacy.  Now Brookline Town Meeting members want to secede from Norfolk County.  The motivation, as always, is money – specifically taxes.

Last Sunday the grassroots advocacy organization Brookline PAX was supposed to host its Annual Meeting and Awards in the Martin Luther King room of Brookline High School.  Among the honorees were the leaders of the Brookline Teen Center, future inhabitants of a space carved out of an auto body garage in Brookline Village.  The two…

This is the first in a semester-long series of stories on Brookline, Massachusetts. On a Tuesday night last November in the Brookline High School Auditorium, Town Meeting members overwhelmingly voted to ban the use of disposable polystyrene, more commonly known as Styrofoam, in Brookline.  The following evening, the special Town Meeting voted another large margin…