Sam Mintz
@samjmintz.bsky.social
Editor at Brookline.News, a nonprofit news site covering the town of Brookline, MA. Before this, I was a reporter covering transportation and energy policy in DC and Boston.
Sometimes "independent journalism" is for people like Michael Tracey who are so odious and cruel that they can't even get hired at the places that are sometimes into that.
I've gone back and forth on this idea alot, but I think I have come around to thinking it's good policy. Financial support for journalism is strongly in the public and state interest. I hope this leads to some momentum here in MA. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Newsom signs landmark bill aimed at giving lifeline to struggling California newsrooms
Assembly Bill 2222 will create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ.
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Obviously so many people tried to demagogue it but the latest Nikole Hannah Jones stuff is just really interesting, and to me, she was clearly approaching it in good faith.
An impressive annual report from @brooklinenews.bsky.social: more than 1,100 donors, nearly $480k in revenues, and close to 9,000 email subscribers. Plus more than 600 stories published. brookline.news/wp-content/u...
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Town officials condemned an apartment building at 56 Egmont Street on Friday and ordered the occupants of its six units to leave temporarily, after a resident complaint led health inspectors to sewage-contaminated water and a cracked sewage pipe in the basement. brookline.news/egmont-stree...
Egmont Street apartment building evacuated, condemned after sewage leak - Brookline.News
Town officials condemned an apartment building at 56 Egmont Street on Friday and ordered the occupants of its six units to leave temporarily, after a resident complaint led health inspectors to sewage...
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Everyone I know has read this article today and I recommend that you do as well www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m...
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe
Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.
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For Brookline residents curious about e-bikes but not quite ready to make a major purchase, there’s a new kind of lending library in town. brookline.news/brookline-re...
Curious about e-bikes? A local nonprofit wants to let you try one out for a week for free - Brookline.News
For Brookline residents curious about e-bikes but not quite ready to make a major purchase, there’s a new kind of lending library in town.
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This lie got repeated by all the worst people on social media and it was immediately obvious there was more to the story. Very glad WBUR looked into it
Andrew Quemere@andrewqmr.bsky.social · 3w agoA couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
How are folks feeling these days about job application materials that are clearly (even provably, thanks Pangram) written with heavy use of AI? Does it change your opinion if the position involves lots of writing?
Really fascinated by this "policy contrast" offered by MA GOP gov candidate Minogue, in which he doesn't really try to make the case that his gas tax pause is a better policy than Healey's plan to study a VMT -- just that it's more popular and people understand it better
Bike lane alert: Brookline Transportation Board signs off on redesign of Chestnut Hill Ave which includes a two-way protected cycle track bike lane, and 65 new parking spaces, after 18 months of heated debate that pitted road user safety against curb access. brookline.news/transportati...
Transportation Board signs off on redesign of Chestnut Hill Ave with two-way protected bike lane - Brookline.News
The redesign comes after 18 months of debate that pitted safety for bicyclists on a major throughway against curb access for homeowners.
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Really appreciated this piece from Bill Grueskin. It's so important, and often really interesting, to closely examine the big journalistic mistakes www.cjr.org/news/how-the...
How the New York Times lost a defamation trial.
An anonymous source, a “hillbilly ambulance chaser” text message, and the newsroom’s first defamation defeat in this country in more than fifty years.
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We're hiring a part-time reporter at @brooklinenews.bsky.social to cover housing and development with a focus on affordability. Get in touch! www.journalismjobs.com/job-listing/...
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The Brookline Housing Authority is preparing to move forward with a major redevelopment of its Walnut Street apartments. The project will demolish 32 "obsolete" apartments in two buildings, replacing them with 96 “family-oriented affordable” units in a new building. brookline.news/bha-finalizi...
BHA finalizing plans for Walnut Street redevelopment after getting new state funding - Brookline.News
The project will demolish two BHA buildings on Walnut Street built in 1961 that contain 32 “obsolete” apartments, replacing them with one new building containing 96 “family-oriented affordable” units,...
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Perennial reminder that the most recently-reported McClatchy CEO salary + bonus would on its own be enough to keep three or four small newsrooms afloat for a year or two
After more than two years of contentious negotiations, a union representing workers at the Coolidge Corner Theatre has agreed on a contract with the nonprofit theater’s management. brookline.news/workers-and-...
Workers and management at Coolidge Corner Theatre agree on contract after two years of union negotiations - Brookline.News
Earlier this summer, the union threatened to strike and the theater's management accused it of bad faith bargaining.
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What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
Pablo Torre can obviously fight his own battles, but I can't get over how many prominent people in media downplayed, refuted, and even mocked his Clippers reporting and are now just silent on the whole thing. Massive outlets ran cover for the Clippers and now just ... move on.
With all the talk of incumbency power in MA, people are really sleeping on this brewing upset, State Senator Mike Rush is about as embedded as you get, a member of leadership, and one of the more moderate Democrats in the caucus who faced a progressive challenge from a political newcomer
Globe endorsement jinx / kiss of death, yikes. They went for: Moulton (big loss) Tram Nguyen (loss) Roath (appears on way to loss) Hayden (✅) Deitch (losing but too close to call) Brownsberger (winning but too close to call) Shortsleeve (blowout loss)
However people are probably going to overindex the crap out of this one as being about ideology and not just reduce it to its simplest parts (good candidate vs much less good candidate)
Sam Mintz@samjmintz.bsky.social · last mo.Turns out generational change as the entirety of a campaign was a pretty weak argument. Running to the right of a popular progressive senator in this particular moment really never made much sense besides that.
Auchincloss' internal poll of 47% gap looking right on the money so far
Turns out generational change as the entirety of a campaign was a pretty weak argument. Running to the right of a popular progressive senator in this particular moment really never made much sense besides that.
Brookline election results: Incumbents Ed Markey and Jake Auchincloss cruise to victory, Djuna Perkins takes town but DA race too close to call county-wide. In the Governors Council race, incumbent Mara Dolan won Brookline and holds a strong lead in her district. brookline.news/election-res...
Election results: Markey and Auchincloss cruise; Perkins wins Brookline but DA race hangs in balance - Brookline.News
Read election results from the Democratic primary in Brookline.
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We've got Brookline results: Markey: 6,496 Moulton: 3,910 Auchincloss: 6,912 Poulos: 3,169 Perkins: 3,924 Deitch: 2,211 All other DA candidates in 3 figures Gov Council Dolan: 5,840 Palladino: 2,209
No matter what the polls have been saying, Roath beating Lynch would be a stunner. The one to watch for me outside of the Brookline races I'm tracking for work
We'll be tracking results tomorrow in Brookline for the Norfolk DA race, 4th Congressional District, U.S. Senate, Governor's Council and more.
@brooklinenews.bsky.social · last mo.Looking to get up to speed before tomorrow's primary election day? Here's our guide to every race and candidate on the ballot. brookline.news/your-guide-t...