THE COVID-19 situation in Massachusetts showed marked improvement on Tuesday, as the presence of the virus diminished and the vaccination push gained strength. The positive signs seemed to run counter to the narrative playing out in the media and among Massachusetts elected officials over the last week suggesting both the virus and the attempts to […]
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 inHealth Care
Croswell talks consolidations – his and others
TOM CROSWELL, the insurance executive who orchestrated the merger of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, says combining the second and third largest health insurance companies in the state will pay dividends for consumers, but he’s not so sure about the benefits of similar consolidations elsewhere in health care. Croswell estimates the combined […]
Posted inHealth Care
Companion ads stir concerns, pushback
“ADULTS 75 yrs and older — Need a ride to your vaccine?” read the headline of the Craigslist ad. The ad was one of many popping up on websites a day after Gov. Charlie Baker announced that 75-year-olds making appointments to get a COVID-19 vaccine could bring along a companion, who could also get inoculated […]
Posted inEnvironment
Baker moves on quickly from Ismay
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER quickly moved on Wednesday after the resignation of his top climate change advisor, declining to even thank him for his service. At a press conference at the East Boston Community Health Center, Baker said his secretary for energy and environmental affairs will need to find a replacement for David Ismay, the undersecretary […]
Posted inUncategorized
Virus notes: Crowding at the top of Phase 2
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is continuing to move people higher in the vaccine line, forcing those down below to wait longer and longer. First it was people between 65 and 74, who got bumped up from the end of Phase 2 to the second spot, joining those with two or more comorbidities just behind the first […]
Posted inHealth Care
Baker again denounces Ismay comments
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Wednesday again denounced comments made last month by his undersecretary for climate change and brushed aside a suggestion that his aide may have been stating the obvious in an impolitic way. Ismay made his comments on a taped Zoom call January 25 held by the Vermont Climate Council – a call […]
Posted inHealth Care
Baker offers vaccines to ‘companions’ of those over 75
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Wednesday said anyone bringing someone 75 and over to one of the state’s mass vaccination sites can also get inoculated even if it’s not their appointed time in the vaccine pecking order. Baker said he believed the new policy, which takes effect Thursday, will encourage more people 75 and over to […]
Posted inTransportation
T starting to get serious about fare evasion
AS IT MOVES toward a new way of boarding passengers on buses and the Green Line, the MBTA is starting to address the touchy subject of fare evasion. Currently, passengers board at the front door of a bus or Green Line car (as it travels above ground) and pay their fares in front of the […]
Posted inTransportation
T control board takes on its critics
THE MBTA’S oversight board on Monday pushed back against relentless criticism from a host of critics for refusing to undo service cuts and for failing to move beyond what a Sunday Boston Globe editorial called “the small-bore thinking of the past six years.” Joseph Aiello, the chair of the Fiscal and Management Control Board, said […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Meet Michael Bobbitt, state’s new arts leader
THE LIFE STORY of Michael Bobbitt is probably very similar to what he would like to replicate for residents statewide as he takes over as the executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Bobbitt, as a young boy growing up in Maryland just outside Washington, DC, was exposed to the arts, took a strong interest, […]