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.
Before this, I was a reporter covering transportation and energy policy in DC and Boston.
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On Thursday, an army of 100 volunteers led by a professional chef put together a Thanksgiving dinner for any and all in the community at United Parish.
Here's how the event, a 40-plus year tradition, came together, with 15 turkeys and all the sides.
brookline.news/united-paris...
Here's how the event, a 40-plus year tradition, came together, with 15 turkeys and all the sides.
brookline.news/united-paris...
United Parish hosts a Thanksgiving everyone can dig into - Brookline.News
A capacity crowd of 200 people gathered at United Parish for the church's annual community Thanksgiving dinner.
brookline.news
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
On Thursday, an army of 100 volunteers led by a professional chef put together a Thanksgiving dinner for any and all in the community at United Parish.
Here's how the event, a 40-plus year tradition, came together, with 15 turkeys and all the sides.
brookline.news/united-paris...
Here's how the event, a 40-plus year tradition, came together, with 15 turkeys and all the sides.
brookline.news/united-paris...
My hot take on how the white house press corps responds to Trump in public briefings is that it does not matter at all, because all the reporters trying to do actual reporting are somewhere else. Under trump in particular, those Q&As are pure TV trash theater and they don't mean or change anything
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My hot take on how the white house press corps responds to Trump in public briefings is that it does not matter at all, because all the reporters trying to do actual reporting are somewhere else. Under trump in particular, those Q&As are pure TV trash theater and they don't mean or change anything
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I once refused to accept homemade jam from a source
I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I once refused to accept homemade jam from a source
The Chair Company, a brooding drama about unethical business tactics, local government corruption, and a family that sticks together through everything
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Chair Company, a brooding drama about unethical business tactics, local government corruption, and a family that sticks together through everything
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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Love to watch the news to find out what's going on in the world ... or maybe isn't going on in the world, you decide for yourself.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Love to watch the news to find out what's going on in the world ... or maybe isn't going on in the world, you decide for yourself.
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I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
Still thinking about "charismatic figures like Alan Dershowitz"
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Still thinking about "charismatic figures like Alan Dershowitz"
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Recently, the union representing workers at the Coolidge Corner Theatre asked supporters to temporarily halt some donations. Shortly after, the theater's management announced short-term raises.
Both sides now say they're making progress toward an agreement.
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Both sides now say they're making progress toward an agreement.
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Coolidge Corner Theatre union negotiations making progress, both sides say - Brookline.News
Shortly after the union urged supporters to delay membership renewals and donations, the theater's management offered short-term raises.
brookline.news
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Recently, the union representing workers at the Coolidge Corner Theatre asked supporters to temporarily halt some donations. Shortly after, the theater's management announced short-term raises.
Both sides now say they're making progress toward an agreement.
brookline.news/coolidge-cor...
Both sides now say they're making progress toward an agreement.
brookline.news/coolidge-cor...
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Mini-forests!
MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing student Ashley D’Souza reports on the challenges of growing trees in urban neighborhoods like North Brookline, Mass., where they're not tied in to their native ecosystems.
Her story starts at 9:14: brookline.news/brookline-ne...
MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing student Ashley D’Souza reports on the challenges of growing trees in urban neighborhoods like North Brookline, Mass., where they're not tied in to their native ecosystems.
Her story starts at 9:14: brookline.news/brookline-ne...
Brookline.News Podcast Episode 10: Gerald Alston's legacy, a Verizon arrival, and the sound of mini-forests - Brookline.News
On Episode 10 of the Brookline.News Podcast, editor Sam Mintz and Brookline Interactive Group executive director Jessica Smyser talk about the latest news in Brookline, including the death of former f...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Mini-forests!
MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing student Ashley D’Souza reports on the challenges of growing trees in urban neighborhoods like North Brookline, Mass., where they're not tied in to their native ecosystems.
Her story starts at 9:14: brookline.news/brookline-ne...
MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing student Ashley D’Souza reports on the challenges of growing trees in urban neighborhoods like North Brookline, Mass., where they're not tied in to their native ecosystems.
Her story starts at 9:14: brookline.news/brookline-ne...
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A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
People on tiktok will comment about "hair theory" and the theory is that having a different haircut makes you look different
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
People on tiktok will comment about "hair theory" and the theory is that having a different haircut makes you look different
A Brookline man who was arrested in October after firing a pellet gun near a synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur has agreed to six months of probation.
Cops, temple and lawyers say no indication he was targeting the temple, and he told police he was hunting rats.
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Cops, temple and lawyers say no indication he was targeting the temple, and he told police he was hunting rats.
brookline.news/brookline-ma...
Brookline man who was arrested after firing pellet gun near synagogue agrees to six months probation - Brookline.News
Carlos Gouvea, a Harvard Law School visiting professor who was arrested in October after causing a security scare at a Brookline synagogue by firing a pellet gun nearby, has been given probation by a ...
brookline.news
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A Brookline man who was arrested in October after firing a pellet gun near a synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur has agreed to six months of probation.
Cops, temple and lawyers say no indication he was targeting the temple, and he told police he was hunting rats.
brookline.news/brookline-ma...
Cops, temple and lawyers say no indication he was targeting the temple, and he told police he was hunting rats.
brookline.news/brookline-ma...
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Brookline Town Meeting voted last night to rebuke President Donald Trump, calling him unfit for his duties.
But residents won't be able to know how their representatives voted on the resolution, because Town Meeting used a rare procedure to make the votes anonymous.
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But residents won't be able to know how their representatives voted on the resolution, because Town Meeting used a rare procedure to make the votes anonymous.
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Town Meeting rebukes Trump in rare anonymous vote - Brookline.News
Town Meeting this week voted in favor of a resolution criticizing Donald Trump, but did so using an unusual parliamentary procedure that meant individual members votes were not recorded.
brookline.news
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Brookline Town Meeting voted last night to rebuke President Donald Trump, calling him unfit for his duties.
But residents won't be able to know how their representatives voted on the resolution, because Town Meeting used a rare procedure to make the votes anonymous.
brookline.news/town-meeting...
But residents won't be able to know how their representatives voted on the resolution, because Town Meeting used a rare procedure to make the votes anonymous.
brookline.news/town-meeting...
The west rox neighborhood Facebook page is delivering today and I'm all in, I will be consuming all the lore
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The west rox neighborhood Facebook page is delivering today and I'm all in, I will be consuming all the lore
In-depth report: Brookline schools send more students to court for chronic absenteeism than many nearby communities, and there are still a large gap by race in terms of which students miss the most school.
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Brookline schools wrestle with disparities in chronic absenteeism — and send more kids to court than nearby towns - Brookline.News
Rates of chronic absenteeism in Brookline are still up compared to the year before the pandemic, and gaps between students of different races are higher than ever.
brookline.news
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In-depth report: Brookline schools send more students to court for chronic absenteeism than many nearby communities, and there are still a large gap by race in terms of which students miss the most school.
brookline.news/brookline-sc...
brookline.news/brookline-sc...
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A state fire investigator's report concluded that a fire in a BHS classroom this summer that injured a student and teacher was accidental, but raised questions about the safety of the chemistry experiment in which the teacher placed isopropyl alcohol on a table.
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Report finds BHS classroom fire that injured student was an accident, but raises questions about experiment - Brookline.News
An investigation into a fire that broke out in a Brookline High School chemistry class last summer and injured a 15-year-old student and teacher found that the fire was accidental, but raised question...
brookline.news
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A state fire investigator's report concluded that a fire in a BHS classroom this summer that injured a student and teacher was accidental, but raised questions about the safety of the chemistry experiment in which the teacher placed isopropyl alcohol on a table.
brookline.news/report-finds...
brookline.news/report-finds...
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When it opened in 2013, Knight Moves Café was one of the first board game bars in the area.
A decade later, it's still going strong, offering an alternative nightlife destination for those who would rather sit down with a jumble of game pieces and a hot drink.
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A decade later, it's still going strong, offering an alternative nightlife destination for those who would rather sit down with a jumble of game pieces and a hot drink.
brookline.news/at-knight-mo...
At Knight Moves Café, a different kind of nightlife where play is the point - Brookline.News
Since 2013, Knight Moves has been a space for board games and community on Beacon Street.
brookline.news
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When it opened in 2013, Knight Moves Café was one of the first board game bars in the area.
A decade later, it's still going strong, offering an alternative nightlife destination for those who would rather sit down with a jumble of game pieces and a hot drink.
brookline.news/at-knight-mo...
A decade later, it's still going strong, offering an alternative nightlife destination for those who would rather sit down with a jumble of game pieces and a hot drink.
brookline.news/at-knight-mo...
Nieman Lab is great for many things, including the "How Not to be a Newsroom Leader" genre.
Four reporters at a Florida nonprofit say their editor appeared to be using an AI chatbot that inserted fake quotes + nonexistent laws into their drafts.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Four reporters at a Florida nonprofit say their editor appeared to be using an AI chatbot that inserted fake quotes + nonexistent laws into their drafts.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nieman Lab is great for many things, including the "How Not to be a Newsroom Leader" genre.
Four reporters at a Florida nonprofit say their editor appeared to be using an AI chatbot that inserted fake quotes + nonexistent laws into their drafts.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
Four reporters at a Florida nonprofit say their editor appeared to be using an AI chatbot that inserted fake quotes + nonexistent laws into their drafts.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...
A good early sign of whether Olivia Nuzzi had strong journalism ethics might have been in 2018 when she walked into a Trump campaign official's empty house and took a photo that she later posted online
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A good early sign of whether Olivia Nuzzi had strong journalism ethics might have been in 2018 when she walked into a Trump campaign official's empty house and took a photo that she later posted online
Keith Olbermann's love life in the news, time to revisit my best ever tweet (images included here so you don't have to visit X)
November 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Keith Olbermann's love life in the news, time to revisit my best ever tweet (images included here so you don't have to visit X)
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79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable
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You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
Picturing a check box on the paperwork that asks if you're challenging from the left, right or center
NEW: Chi Ossé, an ally of Mamdani, has filed paperwork to challenge Jeffries from the left.
Chi Ossé files paperwork to challenge Hakeem Jeffries from the left
The NYC City Council member said in a statement that Democratic leadership is "failing to effectively fight back against Donald Trump."
www.axios.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Picturing a check box on the paperwork that asks if you're challenging from the left, right or center