Groups opposing the construction of a new natural gas pipeline coming into Massachusetts on Tuesday attacked a draft study suggesting the pipeline is needed, with one critic saying the $250,000 […]
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 inEnvironment
Patrick administration says state needs gas capacity
A new study commissioned by the Patrick administration has tentatively concluded that Massachusetts and all of New England need to expand the supply of natural gas coming into the region […]
Posted inHealth Care, The Download
Health plan ad has hidden message
One of the more interesting items in the Boston Globe the last couple days has been a full-page ad from Neighborhood Health Plan. It appears to be one of those year-end, […]
Posted inEnvironment
Is Cape Wind running out of time?
Cape Wind officials, who several months ago were confidently predicting financing for the offshore wind farm would be wrapped up by the end of this year, are now saying they […]
Posted inHealth Care
State slaps Steward with $1,000/week fines
State officials are starting to assess $1,000-a-week fines on Steward Health Care for failing to turn over to regulators the company’s audited financial statements, with the current tab standing at […]
Posted inArts and Culture, The Download
HUBweek hubbub
Now we know what the managing director of the Boston Globe does: She enlists Harvard, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital, and together they launch a week-long festival celebrating innovation. Called […]
Posted inHealth Care
Partners reports $22m operating loss
Partners HealthCare on Friday reported an annual operating loss for the first time in 15 years as a subsidiary lost $110 million insuring state Medicaid patients and set aside another […]
Posted inPolitics
MassDevelopment suddenly flush with cash
MassDevelopment came up with its own funding for two economic development programs on Thursday, allowing the authority to relinquish $23 million in state money the Patrick administration says it needs […]
Posted inPolitics
Linsky says panel can’t probe Probation hiring
The chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight says the panel does not have jurisdiction to investigate hiring practices at the state Probation Department because such an […]
Posted inThe Download
Are advertisers backing new Globe sections?
The Boston Globe rolled out another new newspaper section this week, but it’s unclear whether advertisers are getting on board. An expanded daily Business section launched on Thursday, featuring its […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
How pay reflects power on Beacon Hill
If anyone has doubts about the centralization of power in the Legislature, take a look at the special advisory commission’s recommendations on the pay of top elected officials. The commission […]
Posted inPolitics
Elder Affairs aide fired
The Patrick administration has fired an employee at the state Elder Affairs office who has publicly criticized the agency’s oversight of assisted living facilities. Peter Antonellis, a compliance officer with […]
Posted inEconomy
Patrick gets pushback on proposed $23m cut
Gov. Deval Patrick, who is already facing resistance on Beacon Hill to his proposed cuts in local aid, is also getting some pushback from a state authority that is being […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker and the RGA
Gov.-elect Charlie Baker, who ran for office in Massachusetts as a bipartisan policy wonk, is taking a break from his post-election vacation to attend a Republican Governors Association conference in […]
Posted inEconomy
Patrick, facing shortfall, proposes $329m in cuts
The Patrick administration on Wednesday proposed a series of cuts in state spending to close an estimated $329 million budget gap. The executive branch will absorb nearly $200 million of […]
Posted inEducation
Boston Schools shifted school funds to nonprofit
The Boston Finance Commission says the Boston Public Schools rented out school buses and facilities and funneled the proceeds to an affiliated nonprofit that was able to pay for “miscellaneous […]
Posted inPolitics
Legislative panel urged to probe Probation
Two Republican state representatives are asking the chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight to investigate the “rigged hiring system” at the Probation Department and make referrals […]
Posted inOpinion
Fall 2014 Editor’s note
a former editor of mine often used to remind me that names sell newspapers. What he meant was that people like to read about interesting people. At CommonWealth, we sometimes […]
Posted inHealth Care
Life savers
The diagnosis was a shock to Waxman, in part because she didn’t know much about the disease. Its name conjured up images of needles, drug use, and unprotected sex, but […]
Posted inEconomy
The man who lied to Worcester
SHORTLY AFTER BUYING the Boston Globe last year, John Henry wrote a 3,000-word essay for the newspaper explaining why he bought it. The purchase wasn’t about profits, Henry explained, it […]
Posted inEnvironment
Crafting an energy bill
Rep. Patricia Haddad of Somerset blocked the Patrick administration’s energy bill during the last legislative session because it failed to give a nod to the offshore wind industry her region […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
NStar says power bills will rise 27 percent
NStar Corp. said on Friday that the price of the electricity it is buying for many of its customers this winter will rise 27 percent, or about $28 a month […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
New power plants needed to offset closings
The regional power grid operator predicted on Thursday that electricity usage across New England will grow little over the next 10 years because of energy efficiency efforts but new power […]
Posted inHealth Care
Steward shutting down Quincy Medical Center
Calling Quincy Medical Center “unsustainable,” Steward Health Care is shutting down the hospital at the end of the year and replacing it with a 24-hour emergency department and outpatient services. […]