Weston Arts & Innovation Center
This is a shameless non-Newton plug .. though there is a Newton connection. The town of Weston took a defunct 19th century library and just turned it in to the Weston Arts & Innovation Center. The Newton Nomadic traveling theater just brought our new show, The...NewCAL and data: a guide
This is a guest blog post submitted by Newton resident Richard Rasala, a retired Professor and Associate Dean in the Khoury College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern. Since Fall 2018, he has played a role as a data consultant for the NewCAL Working...
Civic Engagement Gone Too Far?
I love the degree of civic engagement in our city and hope it keeps up after the election on November 5th. There are a lot of issues we are confronted with as a community that are exciting, thought and emotion provoking and that have the potential to have an impact on...
City Council campaign column: Kathy Winters
We have invited all candidates running for contested seats in the upcoming Newton election to submit a guest post to Village 14. The format and content of the post is entirely up to them. City Council candidate Kathy Winters, who is running for the Ward 5 seat,...
Conflict of interest?
Throughout the Northland Development process, a number of Councilors have referred to their “quasi-judicial role” regarding Special Permits. For those unsure what that meant, this recent Opinion piece in the Boston Globe written by a member of the Newton Law...
What are the candidate’s stories?
What do you get if you cross the Moth Radio Hour with a Newton municipal election? You get something that’s never been done anywhere else, ever – the Nomad Story Slam – Election Edition. Two years ago, in the run up to the mayoral election, we held a Nomad Story Slam...
City Council campaign column: Brenda Noel
We have invited all candidates running for contested seats in the upcoming Newton election to submit a guest post to Village 14. The format and content of the post is entirely up to them.
City Council candidate Brneda Noel, who is running for one of the Ward 6 seat, has submitted the following post.
Brenda Noel
Ward 6 Councilor
617-620-2721
City Council candidate column: Andreae Downs
We have invited all candidates running for contested seats in the upcoming Newton election to submit a guest post to Village 14. The format and content of the post is entirely up to them. City Council candidate Andreae Downs, who is running for one of the two Ward 5...City deficits are looming. How will we fill the gap?
The Mayor’s just published financial projections predict a $1.6M deficit in FY 2021, which grows to $26M by FY 2029 if we stay on our current path of spending and taxation. This is clearly not sustainable, so what to do? In the survey I posted earlier, I asked the 321...
Does supply and demand apply when it comes to housing?
Development advocates are betting on supply and demand to cure the region’s housing woes. Build more, and prices drop. But what if they do not? This article in the Boston Herald reports that developers built or permitted 24,953 new homes and apartments between 2011...
Meet the Candidates forum Thursday
Newton Ward 3 Candidates’ Forum Thursday, October 24, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Newton Senior Center, 345 Walnut Street, Newtonville Come meet the Ward 3 candidates for City Council at a Candidates’ Forum on Thursday, October 24, at 6:30 p.m. Bring your questions for the...