What’s unfolding in the wealthy Boston suburb is not that different from other situations across the state when communities and leaders with the best of intentions lose their resolve.
Greg Reibman
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Is ‘paper compliance’ with the MBTA Communities law good enough?
It doesn’t add any new homes for young adults or new families, or add diversity. It doesn’t create new opportunities for downsizing seniors. It doesn’t add the homes our local employers need to attract and retain workers. But it passes the compliance test.
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Newton leaders and residents made their own bed
Striking Newton teachers deserve more money, and the city would have it available to pay them if its leaders had not been so hostile to revenue-generating development over the years.
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Why Newton’s zoning plan is so controversial — and needed
Three percent. That’s the total amount of land area that would be affected by a plan now before the Newton Council to update the zoning code in the city’s village […]