by Sean Roche | Mar 1, 2012 | Newton
The TAB sums it up well: By denying Star Market this license, the commissioners have thwarted competition and denied shoppers a choice. How is that serving the public interest? I’d add that the Liquor Commission’s action amounts to a tax on anybody who...
by Sean Roche | Feb 29, 2012 | Newton |
Today, a colleague asked what the best elementary school in Newton is. What should I tell him? Why?
by Sean Roche | Feb 29, 2012 | Newton |
In my last post, I said that the city needs to require for-pay parking on the Riverside site. There are all sorts of challenges implementing such a requirement, as stated. Allow me to refine. The city should require any parking on the site to be provided to any user...
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by Sean Roche | Feb 25, 2012 | Auburndale, Lower Falls, MBTA |
UPDATED: The developer has been using a one-space-per-400 sq. ft. formula. It’s time to face reality on Riverside: the neighbors have dictated the volume of traffic they are going to accept. And, they are not all wrong. It’s tantalizing to think abstractly...
by Sean Roche | Feb 15, 2012 | Newton |
Let’s be perfectly clear about the consequence if Urban Grape is successful in its quest to get the city to reject a liquor license for Shaw’s: a subsidy from some wine and beer drinkers to Urban Grape and its patrons. A liquor license to Shaw’s...
by Sean Roche | Feb 12, 2012 | Newton |
Hate to be a wet blanket, but is it reasonable to call a 3,800 sq. ft., single-family, detached tear-down on a 15,000 sq. ft. lot green?
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by Sean Roche | Feb 10, 2012 | MBTA |
Last-term alderman Steve Linsky and former board president and all-round Newton fixture Brooke Lipsett wrote a fiesty TAB op-ed column about the MBTA crisis, bringing a healthy sense of outrage and urgency. They are right. Cutting services and raising fares is...
by Sean Roche | Feb 9, 2012 | Newton |
Folks like Vicki Danberg and Chris Steele are putting a lot of good effort into revitalizing Newton Centre, but their efforts, as captured in the TAB’s Ashley Studley’s piece on Newton Centre (not online yet) seem like a band-aid on an arterial bleed. The...
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by Sean Roche | Feb 9, 2012 | Newton |
Ashley Studley brings a must-read wrap-up of some of Newton’s choicest development battles. (Not sure I would have gone with the provocative headline that dominates the front page.) But, there’s a huge hole in the segment about Stop-and-Shop on Needham...
by Sean Roche | Feb 6, 2012 | Newton |
Not sure that this is actually going to change driver and car-door-opener behavior, but really appreciate that the city has seen fit to make an effort at education. Car doors and inattentive drivers could kill or maim a cyclist. The sign is on Beacon Street westbound,...
