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I'm hanging on to this account to keep an eye on what's happening on Twitter (aka search "Brookline" once a day) but I don't plan on posting here anymore (because it sucks!)
I'm posting more on bsky, with a similar username
Sam Mintz
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Sam Mintz
@samjmintz
Editor at @brookline_news
Get in touch: [email protected]
Previously covering climate, energy and transportation in DC and Boston.
- Trump endorsing "Eric" when there are two Erics in the race, and them both claiming the endorsement, is 1000% a Veep plot line
- This is the new next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your neighborhood by 2023
- After calls from flight attendants to ban insurrectionists from flights out of DC, the House Homeland Security Committee is now asking the FBI and TSA to add perpetrators to the no-fly list.
- The paternity leave discourse is leading to dangerously high readings on the Guys Telling On Themselves Meter
- With Biden's campaign talking about big plans for rail, here's a map that Amtrak is circulating with ambitious but realistic expansions over the next 15 years. The railroad says this would cost $25 billion Existing network in black, new corridors in colors
- AP style for numbers is so awkward. I'm out here writing "five to 10 years" and I hate it
- Buttigieg on DOT's role: "I know we think about planes, trains, automobiles, but what about bikes, scooters, wheelchairs for that matter? ... Roads aren't only for vehicles. Got to make sure that pedestrians, individuals, cyclists and businesses can coexist on the same roadway."
- Here's some of who Buttigieg beat out for DOT: -David Kim (8 years at DOT, LA Transit, head of Calif's state transportation agency) -Sarah Feinberg (4 years at DOT, led FRA, head of NYC Transit) -John Porcari (led Maryland DOT, USDOT deputy secretary)
- "Here is me breaking a law with some of the clearest video evidence imaginable."That's me driving the white Crown Vic on Blagden Ave at Allison St NW. DC has fined me $200. Should I pay or contest it?
00:00Readers added contextAccording to the DC DMV, this vehicle (Maryland license plate PG0484) was fined $100 by a stop sign camera at Blagden & Allison on 9/29/2023—not $200. prodpci.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/dc… - This entire thread is mind-boggling. Rolling stops like he's describing, which were built into the Tesla software and resulted in a recall, are literally illegal in every state of the country.Replying to @wholemars and @tkrisherHe’s actually a lobbyist, not a journalist. There are many who pose as the latter while behaving like the former. No integrity. Indeed, there were no safety issues. The car simply slowed to ~2 mph & continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.
- Replying to @samjmintzI am also calling on all of MY exes to resign from their senate seats
