Al Norman

Jan 15, 2025 | recorder.com | Al Norman

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Massachusetts courts have ruled that our state has the “strongest type of home rule,” where cities and towns have the right “to regulate the use of land, buildings and structures to the full extent of [their] independent constitutional powers … to protect the health, safety and general welfare” of their inhabitants. But the state decided to “take away … power to...

Dec 3, 2024 | recorder.com | Al Norman

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Before I moved to Franklin County, I lived in a two-floor apartment in Cambridge with six other people. Today, Cambridge has 60,000 housing units.

Dec 3, 2024 | recorder.com | Al Norman

Before I moved to Franklin County, I lived in a two-floor apartment in Cambridge with six other people. Today, Cambridge has 60,000 housing units. According to Jason Furman, a Harvard economics professor, officials in Cambridge are working on a...

Nov 5, 2024 | recorder.com | Al Norman

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles PHOTO BY PAUL RICHMOND PHOTO BY PAUL RICHMOND Going incognito as the silent Bear Mountain Bear, Waffles T.

Oct 29, 2024 | recorder.com | Al Norman

E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Business Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles Greenfield has written its open space/cluster development zoning ordinance three times. The concept of “more houses on less land” is attractive — but apparently not so much to developers.