What questions do you have about the override vote in May?
Brookline.News is working on an FAQ / explainer about the likely tax override vote being lined up for the town election on May 5.
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Nice lead by @gintautasd.bsky.social: "Town officials in Foxborough have local World Cup organizers by the soccer balls." #mapoli massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/wu-weighs-...
“We love our process in Brookline, and the residents are used to the processes taking place a certain way. I don’t think we necessarily followed our usual process in this case," said Transportation Chair Brian Kane.
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Why...did CNN do this
New: A Houston woman is suing Tesla in Harris County, alleging that her Cybertruck, while using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving mode" tried to drive the car off of a bridge. Here is the dashcam footage provided by her lawyers: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
I talk to people outside.
Listen I totally get what they're going for here but I think the first thing he would think is "what is a phone?"
who tf is brent, lemme talk to him about these oi lprices
I believe without the typo this would have 2000 likes
Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.
This is why we need big newsrooms with lots of reporters who can dig into things. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...
I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.
I love petty yet high stakes airline drama
Facing big financial headwinds, Brookline town leaders are wrestling with how to size an override for the May ballot.
The $24 million that town departments and schools have asked for would be the largest override bid in state history. Would voters say yes?
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“Why a paper anywhere in the U.S. would want to draft an article that affirmatively states that someone who is a private individual is a child abuser, without doing enormous amounts of verification work and being certain that they are correct is beyond my understanding,” Ochs said. “And unfortunately, that’s what happened here.”
Jackson, Wyo., newspaper settles $25m defamation lawsuit. What can be learned? #journalism wyofile.com/jackson-news...
24 electric vehicle chargers in two Brookline parking lots will be shut down for a year, and the parking spots opened up again for general parking.
The Greenspot chargers have been under-utilized and the company made a business decision to temporarily close them.
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i'm teaming up with kalshi to pick up a car battery, angle it so that one of its corners is pointed at the ground, and drop it directly on my toenail
I thought this was the worst until I drove on Heath Street for the first time next to a green line train just rolling down the traffic lane
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If I had a nickel for every time Graham Platner had an unsettling Nazi connection I'd have 15 cents which isn't a lot but--
This is just Keefe from Righteous Gemstones
The MA legislature has been frosty to local home rule petitions asking for rent control in the past.
But Brookline's current bid, passed by Town Meeting in 2023, is getting a friendlier reception than many expected.
Timing with a statewide ballot question coming in November not coincidental
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good righteous skeet
No, she's not. It's a completely different device called Whoop that tracks health and sleep metrics. No mic, GPS or cell data and approved by NSA for this use
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.
Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.
Prediction markets gleefully allowing bets on acts of war that go on to kill dozens of children, some of the most ghoulish shit imaginable and it's like number 50 on the list of awful things that have happened in the last week
