Brookline Town Meeting

[mabfan]

Brookline Town Meeting is in session right now; we met last night and we're meeting again tonight.

There's a lot of important issues we're debating. We just approved the town's $172 million budget. We're now offering only one health-care choice to town employees, so that it can be offered at a lower price, but the question is still in the air of when married same-sex couples will be offered benefits for the non-working spouse. Tonight we're once again debating a possible development project that would bring more money into the town, but at the risk of impacting a neighborhood, which itself is divided on the issue.

So what does the news media decide to focus on? The anti-spanking resolution.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3369474/detail.html

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=30105

Sigh.

Comments

[cellio]

Bah. Stupid media.

But since when are resolutions that "urge" anything proper agenda items for legislative bodies anyway? It's just a feel-good toothless show, and as you've seen, the media will jump on stuff like that instead of reporting on the real issues.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Actually, such resolutions are quite important. For example, Brookline was one of many towns that voted a resolution opposed to the Iraq War. And that encouraged the cities of Chicago and New York to do likewise.

But this particular resolution...well, it's just minor.