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the week in the record — so far

The week of October 26, 2026

One meeting so far, one hour and fifty-eight minutes of tape, in Boston.

The meetings

each opens its tape and its page
Boston · City Council CommitteeGovernment Operations on October 28, 2026One hour and fifty-eight minutes of the City Council Committee, and money was the frameOctober 28, 2026 · 1 h 58 min

What was decided

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

and 10 moments more, on the meetings’ own pages

The sums named

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

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 409 words this week’s tapes file under a lens, 77% were about money — 25% 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