by Greg Reibman | Mar 3, 2013 | Override
Back in January, after I pointed out that this ‘Yes-Yes-Yes’ sign had been illegally placed on the berm along Woodward Street, someone moved it to the property owner’s side of the sidewalk. Ironically, someone just a few doors away on the other side...
by Greg Reibman | Feb 24, 2013 | Override, Stuff that is not yet true |
There was quite a bit of discussion on Village 14 about the Academy Awards on one of our overrides threads Sunday. But did you know that although actress Meg Ryan has never won an Oscar she already knows how she’s voting on March 12?
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by Nathan Phillips | Feb 24, 2013 | Override |
Globe West’s Dierdre Fernandez introduces a new topic into the mix in her article in today’s Globe West, “Newton mayor out in front on tax hike.” We all know how hard Mayor Warren is pushing this override, or rather, these overrides. He’s...
by Greg Reibman | Feb 24, 2013 | Override |
Although it’s rarely explained in news reports, the $11.4 million figure used when discussing Newton’s tax overrides, is an just estimate. That’s because two of the theee ballot questions that will go before voters on March 12 are debt exclusion...
by Greg Reibman | Feb 21, 2013 | Override
Supporters and opponents will participate in online discussion about the March 12 tax overrides ballot questions with Globe reporter Deirdre Fernandes at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday Feb. 28 at www.boston.com/newton. Marcia Tabenken and School Committee chairwoman Claire...
by Greg Reibman | Feb 21, 2013 | Override |
I can’t help but notice that the override opposition group Moving Newton Forward isn’t moving much. Here we are a few weeks from the March 12 overrides yet I still haven’t seen any “vote no” lawn signs and the events section on their...
by Greg Reibman | Feb 18, 2013 | Override |
The Globe’s Deirdre Fernandes reported yesterday that the number of Newton employees “who took home annual paychecks above $100,000 climbed from 185 to 199 — an 8 percent increase — and total pay for those high earners has ballooned by $2.7 million.”...
by Greg Reibman | Feb 8, 2013 | Override |
Newton voters will go to the polls on March 12 to consider three tax override ballot questions totaling $11.4 million. Use this thread (and the extra time you may have this weekend sitting out the storm) to tell Village 14 readers why you are in favor or why you...
by Greg Reibman | Jan 31, 2013 | Override |
Joshua Norman of the newly forming group, Moving Newton Forward, which is opposed to the three override questions on the March ballot had a column in the TAB this week outlining his (or perhaps his group’s) position. The column doesn’t seem to be on Wicked...
by Nathan Phillips | Jan 29, 2013 | Override |
According to this story from Melanie Graham at Newton Patch, Newton resident Adam Maleson, 53, was arrested for disturbing the peace at Mayor Warren’s Town Hall meeting Sunday night in Nonantum. The Town Hall was one in a succession of meetings to explain the...
by Greg Reibman | Jan 28, 2013 | Override |
The Newton Public School department made this film providing a look at some of the problems inside Angier, Cabot and Zervas Elementary Schools. Of course, the NPS is not an unbiased presenter of this information, given that these three schools stand to be the biggest...
by Greg Reibman | Jan 27, 2013 | Override |
Newton Highlands resident Suzanne Rourke Szescila says she is working with “a bunch of Newton residents” on organizing an opposition campaign to Mayor Setti Warren’s proposed tax overrides. Szescila was elected to the Newton Republican City Committee...
