Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders now has two attorney general opinions in front of her on the proposed acquisition of South Shore Hospital by Partners HealthCare. One, from former […]
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.
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Braude shakes it up
Jim Braude shook up the local news business this week by announcing he is jumping from his Broadside TV show at New England Cable News to Greater Boston at WGBH. […]
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A bit of Vegas in Everett
NEARLY FOUR MONTHS after the Massachusetts Gaming Commission awarded a casino license to Wynn Resorts, the commissioners on Thursday finally got a look at the final design for the exterior […]
Posted inEconomy
A vision for a Boston Olympics
BOSTON’S OLYMPIC BOOSTERS on Wednesday performed a rerun for the media of their winning US Olympic Committee presentation, emphasizing the close proximity of venues inside the capital city and the […]
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Mohegan Sun sues Gaming Commission
MOHEGAN SUN ON Wednesday joined the city of Revere in suing the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, alleging a host of irregularities with the agency’s choice of Wynn Resorts as the eastern […]
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DeLeo legal bills total $200,000
More than a third of House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s $537,000 in campaign expenditures last year went to the law firm of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo for legal […]
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Baker pegs deficit at $765m
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said the state is facing a $765 million deficit this fiscal year, a shortfall more than twice as large as his predecessor estimated and attempted to address […]
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Olympics fact vs. fiction
Thank goodness Boston 2024 is going to start releasing details of its bid for the 2024 Olympics this week because reporters are starting to fill in the blanks on their […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Haddad files energy bill
A TOP MEMBER of House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s leadership team filed legislation on Friday that calls for expanding the region’s natural gas pipeline capacity, importing more hydroelectricity from Canada, and […]
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Wynn holds back hotel rendering
Casino magnate Steve Wynn was poised to unveil a rendering of his new Everett casino design Thursday night at a real estate event, but for some reason he changed his […]
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Warren’s clout grows
The clout of Sen. Elizabeth Warren continues to grow in Washington, as Wall Street banker Antonio Weiss asked the president to withdraw his nomination for a top job at the Treasury […]
Posted inEnvironment
Seriously, is this the best we can do?
FOR YEARS, HOMEOWNERS in Lynn faced no restrictions on their trash output. Technically, their weekly allotment was six barrels of trash, yet if additional barrels were put out at the […]
Posted inEnvironment
The solar disconnect
THE US ENERGY Information Administration says solar power is expensive relative to other types of electricity generation, yet cities, towns, and schools across Massachusetts are finding that solar can save […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
A juggling act and news media hypocrisy
THIS ISSUE WAS one of the toughest we’ve ever had to pull together. Two feature stories failed to jell, one of them shortly before we went to press, which required […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Tea Party ship off to slow start
THE BOSTON TEA Party Ships and Museum, which re-opened in 2012 with the help of a first-of-its-kind $18 million loan from the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, is off to a […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Baker taps 3 for energy posts
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION on Monday filled three key energy and regulatory posts with officials whose backgrounds suggest they are likely to take pro-business positions on most issues. Matthew Beaton, the […]
Posted inEconomy, Environment
Electricity prices fall
IT’S STILL EARLY in the season, but electricity prices so far haven’t lived up to the hype that this winter will be one of the most expensive ever. ISO New England, […]
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2024 Olympics campaign begins
BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT leaders on Friday launched what appears to be a very sophisticated campaign to win support for Boston playing host to the Summer Olympics in 2024. A day […]
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John Henry’s sweet deal
John Henry, the billionaire owner of the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Globe, appears to have negotiated a very sweet deal when he sold the Worcester Telegram & Gazette […]
Posted inEconomy, Environment, The Back Story
A warning on natural gas
JUST MINUTES BEFORE Charlie Baker became governor, the Patrick administration released a $250,000 study suggesting winter electricity prices are likely to remain very high for the next four years and […]
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Warren ‘chapped’ about income inequality
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN said on Monday that she is “chapped” about income inequality and what it is doing to America. At a meeting at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette with […]
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Casino sausage
Watching the Greater Boston casino licensing process is a little like watching sausage get made. There are lots of rules and regulations and plenty of lawyers involved, but everything still […]
Posted inEnvironment
Utilities terminate Cape Wind power contracts
CAPE WIND FACED a potentially crippling blow Tuesday night as the state’s two largest utilities announced they were terminating their contracts to purchase roughly three-quarters of the power output of […]
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Walsh sues gaming panel over Wynn license
BOSTON MAYOR MARTY WALSH on Monday filed suit against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, suggesting the city was coming up short in its bid to extract more mitigation money from Wynn […]