@JennDotSmith

Journalist at @CWBeacon once found at @DotNews, @BostonGlobe, @dpa. Cohost of @The_HorseRace and the Codcast. The parties are advised to chill.

 Dorchester, Boston
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Joined February 2012
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Jennifer Smith@JennDotSmith18 Oct 2024
That's gonna be a hard no from me when the Twitter/X terms of service updates on Nov. 15. ✨👋 xitter.cf/en/tos (You can manually opt-out of training the Grok AI in privacy settings at the moment.)
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Mass. HLC@MA_EOHLC28 Mar 2025
#ICYMI I spoke with @JennDotSmith on the Codcast earlier this week about where we are on the road to solving our housing crisis here in Mass.: bit.ly/4bXEQMH
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Diana DiZoglio is not amused xitter.cf/dianadizoglio/status/1…
Chris Van Buskirk
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Replying to @byChrisVan @DianaDiZoglio
Top Massachusetts House Democrats plan to change an internal rule to grant the State Auditor’s Office the sole authority to select an independent firm to conduct a review of the chamber’s finances, officials said in a statement Thursday. #mapoli bostonherald.com/2024/11/14/…

Mass. House Democrats to allow State Auditor’s Office to select firm to review finances

Top Massachusetts House Democrats plan to change an internal rule to grant the State Auditor’s Office the sole authority to select an independent firm to conduct a review of the chamber’s finances,...

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Report says Gateway Cities need to double housing production to meet rising demand via @CWBeacon buff.ly/4hLsNV8
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Mass. Reporter@MassReports14 Nov 2024
Now available: Trustees of Boston University v. Clerk-Magistrate of the Cambridge Division of the District Court Department (SJC 13551). Mass.gov/info-details/new-op…

New opinions

See the most recent published opinions and unpublished decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court.

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An uphill climb for rideshare unionization via @CWBeacon buff.ly/3Z5kY5h
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The city of Boston on Wednesday filed suit against chef Barbara Lynch for a “vast unpaid amount of taxes” across her seven restaurants in Fort Point, the South End, and Beacon Hill that have gone unaddressed for over a decade, @JanelleNanos reports. bostonglobe.com/2024/11/13/b…

City of Boston sues chef Barbara Lynch for $1.7 million in unpaid taxes - The Boston Globe

The suit comes in the wake of last month’s announcement that the celebrated-but-embattled chef would close all of her remaining restaurants.

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OPINION: Bruce Mohl made CommonWealth must-reading — and brought me back into civic life by James Aloisi buff.ly/3AFSRAi
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Q via @samanthajgross to Speaker Mariano: Any lesson from Dems losing two seats in House? Mariano: I see it as a net zero...I don’t understand why we need a lesson from two lost seats....I think there’s introspection about the two candidates, about how hard did they work.
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Everett soccer stadium language survives in $4B jobs bill via @CWBeacon buff.ly/3Z4pYr1
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⚽️ 🚨 ⚽️ 🚨 ⚽️ Soccer stadium language is IN econ development compromise bill Has language requiring community mitigation agreements with the cities of Everett and Boston
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Katie Lannan@katielannan12 Nov 2024
So....what WILL an audit of the state Legislature look like, anyways? wgbh.org/news/politics/2024-… #mapoli @GBHNews

What will an audit of the Massachusetts Legislature look like?

Voters resoundingly backed a ballot question giving Auditor Diana DiZoglio power to probe the state House and Senate, but the path ahead might not be straightforward.

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O’Brien asks SJC to reinstate her as Cannabis Commission chair via @CWBeacon buff.ly/40GccvQ
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Bruce Mohl@BruceMohl8 Nov 2024
SJC tosses out "at fault" precedents, rules that $70,000 engagement ring must be returned to giver if wedding called off commonwealthbeacon.org/court… via @cwbeacon

SJC: $70,000 engagement ring must be returned to giver if wedding called off

“We now join the modern trend adopted by the majority of jurisdictions that have considered the issue and retire the concept of fault in this context; where, as here, the planned wedding does not...

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NEW: The Salem mayor + the Salem School Committee denounced “in the strongest terms possible” comments Congressman Seth Moulton made about transgender athletes, saying that “neither fear nor political whim will shake our commitment to [students].” bostonglobe.com/2024/11/08/m… #mapoli

Seth Moulton’s comments on trans athletes spark criticism as Democrats play blame game over loss -...

The Salem Democrat said that while he supports the rights of transgender people, he stands “firmly in my belief” for limits on transgender participation in competitive women’s sports.

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Political Notebook: Mixed messages in Mass. | An Election Day tradition | Crypto cash via @CWBeacon buff.ly/3YIVR6U
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Fault be damned, the MA Supreme Judicial Court rules in $70,000 engagement ring case. When an engagement is broken, the ring goes back to the giver. mass.gov/doc/johnson-v-setti…
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Context: commonwealthbeacon.org/court…

In case of $70,000 Tiffany ring, SJC judges fully engaged

Justices at the state’s highest court appear open to doing away with the traditional approach to answering a very niche question: should it matter whose fault it is when an engagement goes sour, even...

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Cracks form in Mass. Democratic strongholds, led by heavily Latino cities and towns via @CWBeacon buff.ly/40D5Xcm
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The voters have spoken  on Questions 1, 2 – or have they? via @CWBeacon buff.ly/4epcOsW
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