MOVIE AND TELEVISION producers in Hollywood are already expressing interest in booking a film studio in Devens that is scheduled to open this coming summer, one of the studio’s executives […]
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 inPolitics, The Back Story
Maybe Patrick wants to make more money
NO ONE SEEMS to believe him, but Gov. Deval Patrick was quite emphatic about his near-term future at the Democratic National Convention in September. “I’m gonna finish my term [as […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Back Story
The high cost of going green
NSTAR CUSTOMERS EAGER to support the development of green power are paying a steep price to do so right now. Since 2008, NStar, which distributes electricity across eastern Massachusetts, has […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics
Since ’03, Dookhan output unusually high
FROM THE DAY SHE WAS HIRED in 2003, Annie Dookhan, the mystery chemist at the center of the unfolding state drug lab scandal, performed far more tests than any […]
Posted inUncategorized
Boston World Partnerships calls it quits
BOSTON WORLD PARTNERSHIPS, an economic development networking company launched in 2009 with $1 million in Boston Redevelopment Authority money, is shutting down.In an email to supporters, executive director Yoon Lee […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
The patient Menino
BOSTON MAYOR THOMAS MENINO is a patient investor with city money. Three years ago, when he was running for a fifth term, the mayor orchestrated a $200,000, two-year loan to […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
Brown’s bipartisan money
SEN. SCOTT BROWN has staked his reelection efforts to the notion of bipartisanship. When Brown talks about being a bipartisan senator, he’s talking about voting with Democrats on Capitol Hill. […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Menino, Davis warn of surge in crime
The Suffolk County District Attorney says he and his staff will do everything they can in court to keep a scandal at a state drug lab from returning hundreds […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics
State seeks bids for health care
The state’s Group Insurance Commission issued a request for proposals on Wednesday that is expected to change the way its 400,000 members are insured and to cut expenses by nearly […]
Posted inPolitics
Talk is good
the country is hurtling toward the edge of a fiscal cliff, and nobody in Washington seems inclined to pull back. Indeed, no one in Washington seems inclined to do much […]
Posted inPolitics
Boehner hosts fundraiser for Tisei
Seeking to bolster the Republican majority in the US House, Speaker John Boehner hosted a fundraiser for Congressional candidate Richard Tisei Tuesday morning at the Harvard Club in downtown Boston. […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, The Back Story
Crime lab costs may be significant
Massachusetts officials disclosed to potential bond investors late last month that misconduct at a state drug testing lab may give rise to significant costs to address the problem, to defend […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story, Transportation
Pragmatic approach at authorities
The Patrick administration is taking a pragmatic approach to the salaries being offered to candidates for the long-empty top jobs at Massport and the MBTA, paying more money than the […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
Steward’s finances
Steward Health Care is tight-lipped about its finances, but a picture of the private, for-profit hospital chain’s first year in business is starting to emerge. The Boston-based company in 2010 […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, The Back Story
Tax breaks on the hot seat
Tax breaks, for years a largely untouchable entitlement that Beacon Hill offered to businesses, are finally coming in for some serious scrutiny. The Patrick administration told state lawmakers this week […]
Posted inPolitics
Political ad filings show what TV shows charge
This story is the third in a series on television ad buys on local stations. Earlier: Young Guns set sights on Tierney-Tisei race and Kennedy places orders for $450,000 in […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
Young Guns set sights on Tierney-Tisei race
A conservative Super PAC connected to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Tea Party favorite, is coming into town with guns blazing to try to oust embattled US Rep. John […]
Posted inPolitics
Kennedy places orders for $450,000 in TV ads
Joseph Kennedy III says he is focused exclusively on winning the Democratic primary for Congress from the Fourth District, but his campaign is busy planning for the general election. Two […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Back Story
Wind fall
Update: Gamesa, Mary O’Donnell’s turbine supplier, offers a comment. See below. Kingston was one of the first towns in the state to figure out a way to go green and […]
Posted inEconomy
Patrick signs jobs bill, vetoes tax credits
Gov. Deval Patrick signed an economic development bill into law on Tuesday but vetoed a number of provisions that would have extended or expanded some of the state’s existing tax […]
Posted inHealth Care
Steward ads promote its ‘new health care’
Steward Health Care is using the Olympics to hone its image. The Boston-based chain of 10 community hospitals, many of which were on the verge of going under when Steward […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, State House News Service
The House’s bottle deposit tax delusion
The opposition by House leaders to expanding the reach of the bottle deposit law is becoming more and more bizarre. It’s one thing to say there are unacceptable costs associated […]