Is the Patrick administration sending mixed signals again about the state’s film tax credit? A story in today’s Globe reports that administration officials are declining to say whether the governor […]
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 inArts and Culture, Economy, The Back Story
Film flim flam
How vulnerable to fraud is the state’s film tax credit? That’s the question quietly being asked on Beacon Hill in the wake of a 10-count indictment against director Daniel Adams […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Crosby named gambling chief
Press conference video via State House News Service: Gov. Deval Patrick today named Stephen Crosby, a veteran of Beacon Hill and the dean of a University of Massachusetts policy center, […]
Posted inUncategorized
Wal-Mart, Bank of America bought film tax credits
State investigators today charged that a Cape Cod filmmaker fraudulently obtained $4.7 million in film tax credits over several years and then sold those credits to Wal-Mart and Bank of […]
Posted inThe Back Story, Uncategorized
Massport still interviewing
Nearly 10 months after Tom Kinton announced he was retiring as executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority, the quasi-public agency is still looking for a replacement. Michael Angelini, a […]
Posted inPolitics
State hits Progressive with $125,000 fine
The Massachusetts Division of Insurance today slapped a $125,000 fine on Progressive Insurance for inadvertently posting a link on its website about the use of credit scores in setting auto […]
Posted inPolitics
State rolls out Open Checkbook
Massachusetts officials today unveiled a new $1.8 million website that allows the public to review and ask questions about most government expenditures, including payments to vendors and the salaries and […]
Posted inEconomy, Environment
Report: 2.7m green jobs in US; 63,523 in Mass.
A new report from the Brookings Institution indicates 2.7 million people hold down green jobs in the United States. The report says 63,523 of those jobs are in Massachusetts, virtually […]
Posted inPolitics
Frank won’t seek reelection to Congress
Barney Frank has had enough. A Massachusetts congressman since 1981, Frank said he had been planning to run for one more term next year but decided to retire after Gov. […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Back Story
Green alert on Coakley
Attorney General Martha Coakley insists she is as green as ever, but environmental activists aren’t so sure after her recent testimony on the state’s three-year-old Green Communities Act. Coakley warned […]
Posted inEconomy
Movie spending, employment falls
Movie spending and employment in Massachusetts took a dive in 2010 amid the Great Recession and uncertainty about the state’s film tax credit, but picked up sharply this year and […]
Posted inEconomy
American Dream: More than a bumper sticker
In 1996, the first issue of CommonWealth magazine featured a cover story on the changing economics of middle-class life in Massachusetts. The story focused on Heritage Road in Billerica, where […]
Posted inUncategorized
15 years and counting
In 1996, the first issue of CommonWealth magazine featured a cover story on the changing economics of middle-class life in Massachusetts. The story focused on Heritage Road in Billerica, where […]
Posted inEconomy
A have and have-not world
carol meyrowitz started her climb up the corporate ladder at Framingham-based TJX Corp. in 1983. Today, nearly 30 years later, she runs a $22 billion retailing giant whose off-price strategy […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Silent crisis
Gov. Deval Patrick issued a press release in September announcing seven new appointees to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees. The release contained all the basics: their names, their […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics, The Back Story
Municipal health care reform taking hold
The municipal health care reform law is slowly starting to have an impact. Several early-adopter communities have used the law – or the leverage the law provides – to shave […]
Posted inPolitics
Agency spends big to fight severance
With the case only in the deposition stage, a quasi-public Massachusetts authority says it has already spent $240,000 on legal fees fighting a $562,000 severance payment claimed by former employee […]
Posted inEnvironment
Clean energy official a Big Oil investor
The Massachusetts official overseeing most of the state’s clean energy investments has a personal portfolio that includes stock holdings in many non-clean energy businesses. The 2010 ethics filing of Patrick Cloney, […]
Posted inEconomy
Court administrator wanted; pay $140,358
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today posted the job description for a new court administrator. Recent legislation eliminated the post of chief justice for administration and management and split that […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
How much more can Ireland take?
Politics doesn’t seem to be Roderick Ireland’s strong suit. The chief justice of the state’s Supreme Judicial Court is on the outs with Gov. Deval Patrick, stuck in neutral with […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
Bay State Banner loan extended
A nonprofit affiliate of the Boston Redevelopment Authority is giving the Bay State Banner more time to pay off a $200,000 delinquent loan originally arranged by Mayor Thomas Menino two […]
Posted inPolitics
Mass lawmakers key in postal fight
Massachusetts lawmakers may play key roles in deciding the fate of the US Postal Service, which is struggling to adapt as the volume of American mail keeps declining. US Rep. […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
Professor says Boston attractive casino site
Casino operators will bid very aggressively for a license to operate in the Boston area if gambling legislation passes, but Massachusetts officials should go slowly in selecting the eventual winner, […]
Posted inPolitics
Coakley indicts O’Brien, Cahill aide
Indictments unsealed today by Attorney General Martha Coakley allege the commissioner of the state’s Probation Department and the one-time chief of staff to former state Treasurer Tim Cahill engaged in […]