CAPE WIND, the controversial Nantucket Sound wind farm given up for dead last year when it lost a lucrative pair of utility contracts, is trying to mount a comeback. Jim […]
Bruce Mohl
Bruce Mohl oversees the production of content and edits reports, along with carrying out his own reporting with a particular focus on transportation, energy, and climate issues.
He previously worked at the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe’s State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe’s Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state’s pension system. He served as the Globe’s political editor in 1994 and went on to cover consumer issues for the newspaper.
Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Posted inPolitics
Baker diverts $150m from rainy day fund
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION said on Wednesday that it is steadily reducing the state’s reliance on one-time revenue solutions, but nevertheless wants to balance the fiscal 2017 budget using $150 million […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
Baker: Tax credits should help local firms
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said on Wednesday that he is filing legislation to pare back the cost of the state’s film tax credit and increase the reach of another tax break […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Health Care
Healey questions legality of Sovaldi pricing
A correction has been added to this story. ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY is warning the maker of a breakthrough hepatitis C drug that the company’s $1,000-a-pill price may constitute an […]
Posted inTransportation
T ridership: Flat or flying high?
NO ONE CAN SEEM TO AGREE whether the glass is half full or half empty when it comes to MBTA ridership. In its annual report, the T’s Fiscal Management and […]
Posted inUncategorized
Supreme Court upholds demand-response payments
THE US SUPREME COURT ruled 6-2 on Monday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has the authority to pay major consumers of electricity for commitments to use less power during […]
Posted inPolitics
ML Strategies lobbying fees soar
ML STRATEGIES COLLECTED more than $2.7 million in Massachusetts lobbying fees during 2015, vaulting the company into the top spot among the state’s leading lobbying firms. The well-connected company saw […]
Posted inEconomy, Gambling, The Back Story
A tale of two companies
STEVE WYNN MUST BE CRYING in front of his Picasso reading about the efforts of state and city officials to bring GE to Boston. The so-called Summary of Incentives agreement […]
Posted inHealth Care
HPC to tackle hospital pricing disparities
THE STATE’S HEALTH POLICY COMMISSION on Wednesday said it is time for Massachusetts policymakers to address the glaring disparity between what hospitals charge for services even when there is no […]
Posted inEnvironment
Eversource, Grid submit gas pipeline contracts to DPU
THE STATE’S TWO MAJOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES are asking state regulators to approve contracts they have negotiated on behalf of their customers to purchase access to proposed natural gas pipelines. National […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
ML Strategies scores win with GE
GENERAL ELECTRIC’S DECISION to relocate its headquarters and 800 jobs to Boston was a big victory for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Gov. Charlie Baker, but it was also another […]
Posted inThe Back Story
Everybody aboard the energy omnibus
House officials are busy crafting an omnibus energy bill, setting the stage for one of the more interesting legislative debates on Beacon Hill in a long time. House Speaker Robert […]
Posted inEconomy
GE picks Boston for HQ location
GENERAL ELECTRIC said on Wednesday that it decided to bring its headquarters and 800 workers to Boston after a careful evaluation of the city’s “business ecosystem, talent, long-term costs, quality […]
Posted inEnvironment
Politics behind the plug
THERE IS A PATTERN that runs through the energy debate on Beacon Hill. The Baker administration wants to bring new natural gas pipelines into the region; utilities are tasked with […]
Posted inHealth Care
Stuart Altman: Health care watchdog
Photographs by Frank Curran STUART ALTMAN IS 78, an age when most people are taking the foot off life’s gas pedal. But Altman isn’t pulling over to the side of […]
Posted inEducation
Bump sees physical education inequality
STATE AUDITOR SUZANNE BUMP says a 2014 audit her office conducted of the state’s child obesity programs turned up income correlations that are strikingly similar to what CommonWealth uncovered in […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics, State House News Service
Big Three dynamics
JUST BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS kicked into high gear, the Big Three—Gov. Charlie Baker, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and Senate President Stanley Rosenberg—sat down for a joint interview with the State […]
Posted inTransportation
T hires interim Green Line ext. team
THE MBTA ON MONDAY named an interim leadership team that will be charged with bringing the cost of the proposed Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford in line with […]
Posted inTransportation
T cites progress on structural deficit
MBTA OFFICIALS ON MONDAY said they are making progress in eliminating the T’s structural deficit and told the agency’s oversight board that major decisions must be made in the next […]
Posted inThe Back Story, Transportation
A Beacon Hill switcheroo
In 2013, a bill went into a legislative conference committee on Beacon Hill with a section limiting MBTA fare increases to 5 percent every two years. The section emerged from […]
Posted inTransportation
T passes exempt from fare constraints
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is adopting a definition of the word fare that would allow the MBTA to increase the prices of bus and subway passes at any time and by […]
Posted inTransportation
T to seek comment on 2 fare options
THE MBTA’S OVERSIGHT BOARD voted unanimously on Monday to seek public comment on two proposals that would raise base fares by either 5 or 10 percent while increasing the price […]
Posted inGambling
AG: Gaming Commission violated Open Meeting Law
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY’S OFFICE said the Massachusetts Gaming Commission violated the state’s Open Meeting Law on several occasions by holding private meetings where operation and management of the agency was […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Enviro groups appeal DPU exclusion
SEVERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOLAR GROUPS are appealing a decision by a Department of Public Utilities hearing officer denying them full intervenor status in a rate case filed by National Grid. […]