Category: Brookline.News
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Near-miss data shows trouble spots on Brookline’s roads
A car backed up in the middle of the intersection, prompting a honk. A pedestrian couple wove between cars to cross the road without the walk sign on. A car switched lanes at the last minute to turn left at…
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The U.S. health care system prioritizes profits over people. A Brookline author examined how we got here.
High prescription costs, battles with insurance and class-dependent health outcomes define the American health care experience. How did it get like this? Harvard public health professor and Brookline resident John E. McDonough sought to answer that question in his new…
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‘One for the ages’: National worries and ballot questions bring Brookline voters to the polls
With warm weather and clear skies, Brookline voters headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes on Election Day. As of Friday, more than 10,000 Brookline voters had already cast a ballot in the 2026 midterms, according to Town…
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Massachusetts lawmakers face impending deadline on landmark data privacy bill
A landmark data privacy bill restricting how companies collect and sell sensitive personal information continues to be debated by Senate and House legislators as a deadline to reconcile their versions approaches in January. The Massachusetts Data Privacy Act would limit…
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A charge from 18 haunts a Brookline green card holder
Jonathan Mande was 11 when he arrived in Brookline from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002, one of 10 children in a family scattered by war. He spent his first stretch in town in a Coolidge Corner family…
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At Brookline library, a one-woman play remembers the first woman in Massachusetts to win freedom by suing her enslaver
Elizabeth “MumBet” Freeman once overheard the words “all men were created free and equal” in the Sheffield household where she was enslaved. Freeman would become the first woman in the state to win her freedom by suing her enslaver. “I…
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Local contractor finds good workers by teaching Brookline youth the trades
Paul Ham couldn’t find good handymen on his own, so he decided to train them himself. Three years later, home improvement contracting company Brookline Proven employs six current and recent Brookline High School students and teaches them how to launch…