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the week in the record

The week of October 5, 2026

Four meetings, nine hours and fifty-three minutes of tape, in Boston and Brookline.

The meetings

each opens its tape and its page
Boston · City Council CommitteeWays and Means on October 6, 2026Fifty minutes of the City Council Committee, and money was the frameOctober 6, 2026 · 50 minBoston · Zoning Board of AppealZoning Board of Appeal Hearing 10-6-26Two hours and seven minutes of the Zoning Board of Appeal, and community was the frameOctober 6, 2026 · 2 h 7 minBrookline · Select BoardBrookline Select Board Meeting - October 6, 2026Three hours and twenty-seven minutes of the Select Board, and money was the frameOctober 6, 2026 · 3 h 27 minBoston · City CouncilBoston City Council Meeting on October 7, 2026Three hours and twenty-seven minutes of the City Council, and the law was the frameOctober 7, 2026 · 3 h 27 min

What was decided

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

and 61 moments more, on the meetings’ own pages

The sums named

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

and 13 sums more, on the meetings’ own pages

The threads that moved

the issues the record follows, the most moments this week first
and 44 threads more

and 44 threads more, every one on this week’s page: publicrecord.studio/app/week/2026-10-05/

How the week talked

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

Of 2,198 words this week’s tapes file under a lens, 21% were about community — 23% across the whole record. It leaned furthest from the record’s habit toward the law: 15% of the week’s words, against 7%.

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; a thread a model named says so; every line opens the tape

Every week on the record