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the week in the record

The week of September 21, 2026

Ten meetings, twenty-four hours and thirty-six minutes of tape, in Boston.

The meetings

each opens its tape and its page
Boston · City Council CommitteeCity Services on September 21, 2026One hour and thirteen minutes of the City Council Committee, and money was the frameSeptember 21, 2026 · 1 h 13 minBoston · City Council CommitteeGovernment Operations on September 21, 2026Two hours and fifty-eight minutes of the City Council Committee, and the law was the frameSeptember 21, 2026 · 2 h 58 minBoston · City Council CommitteeEducation on September 22, 2026Two hours and forty-six minutes of the City Council Committee, and money was the frameSeptember 22, 2026 · 2 h 46 minBoston · Zoning Board of AppealZoning Board of Appeal Hearings 9/22/26Four hours and thirty-seven minutes of the Zoning Board of Appeal, and community was the frameSeptember 22, 2026 · 4 h 37 minBoston · City Council CommitteePILOT Agreements, Institutional and Intergovernmental Relations on September 22, 2026Two hours and one minute of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 22, 2026 · 2 h 1 minBoston · City CouncilBoston City Council Meeting on September 23, 2026Four hours and twenty-eight minutes of the City Council, and procedure was the frameSeptember 23, 2026 · 4 h 28 minBoston · Licensing BoardBoston Licensing Board Transactional Hearing 9/23/26One hour and forty-six minutes of the Licensing Board, and community was the frameSeptember 23, 2026 · 1 h 46 minBoston · City Council CommitteeHuman Services on September 24, 2026One hour and thirty-one minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 24, 2026 · 1 h 31 minBoston · Licensing BoardBoston Licensing Board Voting Hearing 9/24/26Twenty-one minutes of the Licensing Board, and infrastructure was the frameSeptember 24, 2026 · 21 minBoston · City Council CommitteeCivil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement on September 25, 2026Two hours and fifty-one minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameSeptember 25, 2026 · 2 h 51 min

What was decided

the roll calls read from the tapes, and the loudest decisions and pushback

and 130 moments more, on the meetings’ own pages

The sums named

the dollar figures each room said most, the most said first

and 21 sums more, on the meetings’ own pages

The threads that moved

the issues the record follows, the most moments this week first

The threads the record follows are Brookline’s; this week’s meetings were Boston’s.

How the week talked

the eight lenses, this week against the whole record
the lenses, explained →

Of 4,868 words this week’s tapes file under a lens, 36% were about community — 23% across the whole record.

counted by the press from the record’s own planes — the meetings’ roll calls, moments, sums and lenses, and the threads’ timelines; no model counted any of it; every line opens the tape

Every week on the record