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...City Council. It remains unclear what effect the council’s resolution will have on the surveillance initiative. In Brookline, a town that also falls under the program, local officials voted to proceed with the program on a trial basis, according to Nancy Daly, chairwoman of the Brookline Selectmen. “I would imagine we can stop it...It’s a matter of the Brookline police department voluntarily going along with it,” Daly said in a phone interview with The Crimson. Councillor Craig A. Kelley said that the Council should have been more...
...doing surveillance on you. It’s just the way it is. I don’t understand this misplaced notion of privacy there.” The Boston Globe reported that opposition from residents has thus far prevented the installation of 12 cameras Brookline. The Brookline town selectmen will vote on Jan. 13 whether to become only the second municipality in the country to reject federal funding for Homeland Security cameras. The only city that has done so to date is Washington, D.C. —Staff wroter Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
Deborah Goldberg, former chairwoman of the Brookline Board of Selectmen, told students about her roots in the business world as a member of the family that founded the Northeastern supermarket chain Stop & Shop. Worcester Mayor Tim Murray recounted his struggles as a local official against a hostile Republican state administration. Child psychiatrist Sam Kelley spoke of his boyhood on a chicken farm and his adult work as medical director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children...
Ginger Esty, a member of the Framingham Board of Selectmen, said she believed the recent cost overruns of the Big Dig have led the MTA and the Massachusetts Port Authority to try to sell any of their assets that they...
Vincent Juliani, the chair of the Wellesley Board of Selectmen, said the alcohol policy was targeted at anyone under the age of 21, high school and college students alike. He said he was optimistic that it will help to curb underage drinking...