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

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

The newspapers probably thought it would catch the interest of a wider audience; regardless of what's more important, people outside of Brookline aren't likely to care as much about the employee health-care plan.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The spanking issue is the most "amusing" of what we dealt with, but in terms of importance to the town and to society, it's the most minor.

Last night we approved the zoning changes at 2 Brookline Place, for example. That's going to affect lots more than the spanking resolution.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

It's definitely more important but it's not as "splashy."