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the week in the record — so far

The week of October 19, 2026

Eight meetings so far, nineteen hours and nineteen minutes of tape, in Boston.

The meetings

each opens its tape and its page
Boston · City Council CommitteePlanning, Development and Transportation on October 19, 2026Two hours and twelve minutes of the City Council Committee, and the environment was the frameOctober 19, 2026 · 2 h 12 minBoston · City Council CommitteeCommunity Preservation Act on October 20, 2026Three hours and sixteen minutes of the City Council Committee, and money was the frameOctober 20, 2026 · 3 h 16 minBoston · City Council CommitteeEducation on October 20, 2026Three hours and fourteen minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameOctober 20, 2026 · 3 h 14 minBoston · City Council Committee10.21.26 Conservation Commission Public HearingThirty-four minutes of the City Council Committee, and infrastructure was the frameOctober 21, 2026 · 34 minBoston · City CouncilBoston City Council Meeting on October 21, 2026Four hours and fourteen minutes of the City Council, and community was the frameOctober 21, 2026 · 4 h 14 minBoston · Zoning Board of AppealBoston Zoning Board of Appeal October 22, 2026 Subcommittee HearingThirty-three minutes of the Zoning Board of Appeal, and community was the frameOctober 22, 2026 · 33 minBoston · City Council CommitteePlanning, Development and Transportation on October 22, 2026Two hours and thirty-five minutes of the City Council Committee, and safety was the frameOctober 22, 2026 · 2 h 35 minBoston · City Council CommitteeCity Services on October 23, 2026Two hours and thirty-eight minutes of the City Council Committee, and community was the frameOctober 23, 2026 · 2 h 38 min

What was decided

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

and 122 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

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 4,287 words this week’s tapes file under a lens, 23% were about money — 25% across the whole record. It leaned furthest from the record’s habit toward safety: 15% of the week’s words, against 10%.

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