THE TOP OFFICIAL at the state’s commuter rail operator raised concerns in a December letter to the MBTA that agency officials were undermining efforts to hire an experienced executive 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 inEconomy, Politics
Budget briefing
SECRETARY OF STATE William Galvin ripped the Baker administration for proposing cuts in his budget that would make it impossible for him to run a presidential primary in March next […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
House paid Boston law firm $262,000
THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE paid $262,000 to a Boston law firm in 2013 and 2014 for work on ethics investigations. House officials are declining further comment on how the money was […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics
Baker misses budget opportunity
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER missed an opportunity on Wednesday to play the role of an educator and explain how and why he is trying to rein in state spending. His press […]
Posted inGambling, Transportation
Wynn pays MBTA $6m for land
THE MBTA IS $6 million richer after selling a 1.75-acre parcel of land to Wynn Resorts for the preferred entrance to its planned $1.7 billion casino-hotel complex in Everett. The […]
Posted inEconomy
Baker pushes family homelessness program
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER says he plans to make a big dent in the number of homeless Massachusetts families by taking $20 million now being used for shelter and hotel-motel stays […]
Posted inEnvironment
Cape Wind developer not giving up
CAPE WIND DEVELOPER Jim Gordon spoke at a rally on behalf of Cape Wind on Saturday and insisted his 14-year quest for a wind farm in Nantucket Sound is not […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Baker pushes regional energy approach
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION said on Wednesday it plans to work with utilities in Massachusetts and neighboring states to purchase renewable energy and expand the region’s natural gas pipeline infrastructure. In […]
Posted inEnvironment
Cape Wind developer mum on project
THE DEVELOPER OF the troubled Cape Wind project quoted Mark Twain on Wednesday, saying reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. But he had very little to say about efforts […]
Posted inThe Download
Eavesdropping on Instagram
The police and school departments in Lowell are preparing to hire a company to monitor social media use within the city’s borders, scrubbing public posts on Twitter, Facebook, and other […]
Posted inThe Download
Bill O’Reilly’s ‘war zone’ claims
Fox news host Bill O’Reilly criticized NBC anchor Brian Williams for falsely claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Back Story
Should electric ratepayers pay for gas pipelines?
THERE SOON MAY be a new charge on your electric bill for natural gas pipeline construction. The novel idea first surfaced last summer as the six New England states began […]
Posted inPolitics, Transportation
Rosenberg sees transportation disconnect
SENATE PRESIDENT STANLEY ROSENBERG said on Tuesday that the problems at the MBTA are straight out of “Democracy in America,” the book Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the 1800s which […]
Posted inGambling, The Download
Gaming Commission challenge fails
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by Caesars Entertainment against Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby. The ruling uses language that could spell trouble for […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Great Scott!
MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott’s press conference on Tuesday was one of those rare moments in political life when an official just lets it rip. We in the press are […]
Posted inTransportation
Excerpts from Beverly Scott’s 26-minute press conference Feb. 10
I can sleep at night with no equivocation that to the extent we had information anyone that needed to have information had the information. We do not control Mother Nature….I […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker to cut another $1b
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION, which just cobbled together enough money to close a $765 million shortfall in this year’s budget, is now preparing to pare back spending by another $1 billion […]
Posted inGambling
Wynn issues $50m clarification
STEVE WYNN HAS been saying his proposed Everett casino will generate $50 million a month for Massachusetts, but aides say that number reflects gaming taxes paid directly to the state […]
Posted inThe Download
How do you solve a problem like the T?
On Monday, the snow pounded Boston all day long and the roads were a mess, but the MBTA limped along until it was shut down around 7 p.m. Today, the […]
Posted inEconomy, Environment
Power incentives hit $4b
FACED WITH POWER plant closures, New England’s regional power grid operator is paying out an estimated $4 billion in incentives to ensure adequate supplies of electricity three years from now. […]
Posted inGambling
Wynn Resorts earnings fall sharply
WYNN RESORTS, WHICH is planning to build a $1.7 billion casino resort in Everett, announced lower-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter, largely because of a falloff in revenue at its […]
Posted inHealth Care, Olympics, The Download
Vaccines become campaign issue
The editorial pages of the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal rarely agree on anything, but on Tuesday both newspapers criticized parents and politicians who think vaccines are potentially dangerous […]
Posted inPolitics
Big Three back tax diversion
THE BIG THREE on Beacon Hill are in agreement that about $200 million in capital gains tax revenue slated for deposit in the state’s rainy day fund should instead be […]
Posted inPolitics
DeLeo: My thinking has evolved
SAYING HIS THINKING has “evolved,” House Speaker Robert DeLeo said on Thursday that he wants to do away with a rule he instituted six years ago that would require him […]