This special issue of CommonWealth catalogues all of the unfinished business of the state’s 15-year-old education reform effort: the achievement gap between rich and poor, the high number of failing […]
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 inArts and Culture, Uncategorized
Marathon man
Bill Brett at a book signing at Fenway Park.Photo by Michael Manning. Few people know Boston and Bostonians as well as Bill Brett. He’s been taking photos for The Boston […]
Posted inPolitics
Red Sox call their own play to control ticket scalping
INTRO TEXT The state’s antiscalping law is in tatters. No one enforces it, resellers ignore it, and now the Boston Red Sox are giving up on it. The Red Sox […]
Posted inPolitics
Murray uses IG as ombudsman for Phoenix story
INTRO TEXT When the Boston Phoenix reported last year that state Sen. Therese Murray steered $11 million in state money to a crony who failed to deliver on his assignment […]
Posted inPolitics
State worker, 82, finally calls it quits
INTRO TEXT Donald Falvey, who is 82, retired from his $97,000-a-year job as deputy director of the Division of Standards at the end of January. Falvey worked in state and […]
Posted inUncategorized
Editors Note
Sometimes you get lucky. I bumped into photographer Bill Brett walking through Downtown Crossing in January. He told me about his latest book project, which led to an interesting conversation […]
Posted inEconomy
Subsidizing the stars
UPDATE: Since the spring issue of CommonWealth went to press, the Massachusetts Revenue Department released a report indicating the financial impact of the state’s film tax credit could be substantial. […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Politics of climate change still unsettled
Massachusetts is one of the greenest states in the nation, but even here the politics of climate change is unsettled. Scott Brown voted for a regional carbon cap-and-trade system as […]
Posted inEnvironment
Power subsidy settlement OK’d
CORRECTION: Because of incorrect information supplied to CommonWealth by the Patrick administration, the initial version of this story said the premium for Massachusetts-generated solar was roughly 30 cents per kilowatt […]