GOV. CHARLIE BAKER suggested for the first time Monday that he may lift the COVID-19 state of emergency at the same time as he allows businesses to fully reopen, which is now scheduled for August 1. Baker […]
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 inHealth Care, Politics
Healey expands call for mandatory vaccinations
ATTORNEY GENERAL Maura Healey, who has said COVID-19 vaccinations should be required for public employees, indicated on Wednesday that she believes inoculations should be mandatory for at least some private […]
Posted inTransportation
Newton cut off from all-day rail
NEWTON HAS FOUND itself on the outside looking in as the MBTA’s commuter rail system transitions from service geared around morning and afternoon peak periods to more frequent service at […]
Posted inHealth Care
Dickson’s plan for greater health care equity
DR. ERIC DICKSON, the CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care and the chair of the board of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, says the health care inequities that have […]
Posted inUncategorized
Baker laissez-faire on vaccine requirements
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said his administration will leave it up to businesses and organizations to decide whether they want to adopt vaccination requirements for employees or patrons, and added that […]
Posted inTransportation
An ex-staffer’s perspective on T governance
LAUREL PAGET-SEEKINS spent six years at the MBTA, rising through the ranks to assistant general manager for policy before she left at the end of last year to become a […]
Posted inTransportation
T lays out bus electrification plan
MBTA OFFICIALS on Monday laid out a multi-billion-dollar plan for reducing the bus fleet’s carbon emissions to zero by annually rolling out a steady stream of hybrid electric-diesel and battery-electric […]
Posted inArts and Culture
House follows Mariano’s lead on film tax credit
THE HOUSE, getting in line behind a high priority of Speaker Ron Mariano, unanimously passed a budget amendment on Monday that would do away with the planned sunset of the […]
Posted inEnvironment
Throwing up roadblocks to Quebec hydroelectricity
OFFSHORE WIND appears to be slowly getting back on track, but Massachusetts’ other big bet on clean energy – hydroelectricity from Quebec – is far from a sure thing. A […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Under federal law, it can pay to read your bills closely
THE $2.6 MILLION settlement the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary agreed to earlier this week with the US Justice Department started out with a single customer who believed he was […]
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Baker: Feds should redeploy vaccines to Mass.
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said on Thursday that his administration is asking the federal government to adjust its vaccine shipments, lowering what’s sent to states that aren’t using all of their […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Downing opposes new prison for women
DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL candidate Ben Downing said the Baker administration should abandon any plans to build a new prison for women inmates in Norfolk, saying “investing in incarceration is the exact […]
Posted inTransportation
Four questions for the MBTA’s Steve Poftak
MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak came on the Codcast this week and we asked him about four issues: returning to full service levels, means-tested vs. free fares, fare verification efforts, […]
Posted inEnvironment
Baker retreats more on biomass power plants
REACTING TO STRONG public opposition, the Baker administration on Friday continued its retreat from measures that would have allowed a power plant fueled by wood to be constructed in Springfield. […]
Posted inPolitics
Do Fattman, Eldridge donations follow similar pattern?
SEN. JAMIE ELDRIDGE of Acton was a big supporter of his former State House aide, Danillo Sena, when Sena ran for a House seat last year. According to Sena’s campaign […]
Posted inEnvironment
Somerset coming apart at the seams
THE SOUTH COAST community of Somerset seems to be pulling apart at the seams, as rancor over stop-gap development at Brayton Point prompted the chair of the Board of Selectmen […]
Posted inHealth Care
House budget calls for publicizing 2017 law
THE HOUSE BUDGET proposal includes an outside section requiring the state’s commissioner of public health to launch a public information campaign promoting the availability of 12-month prescriptions for birth control. […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Tax breaks not on House budget chief’s radar
THE HOUSE’S TOP budget official said his spending plan for fiscal 2022 doesn’t address outdated or ineffective tax breaks highlighted in a recent commission report and he doesn’t plan to […]
Posted inEnvironment
Angry Somerset residents elect ally to select board
SOMERSET VOTERS, angry about noisy and dirty businesses operating out of an industrial site that was supposed to be a staging ground for the state’s offshore wind industry, elected an […]
Posted inTransportation
T notes: Scrambling for electric trains
THE MBTA’S Fiscal and Management Control Board pressed agency officials on Monday to accelerate the rollout of commuter rail trains that run on electricity instead of diesel fuel, but it […]
Posted inTransportation
T board gives boost to means-tested fares
SEVERAL MEMBERS of the MBTA’s oversight board called for a major overhaul of the transit system’s fare structure, including a much more serious look at the implementation of charging customers […]
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New Bedford mayor calls offshore wind ‘generational opportunity’
NEW BEDFORD MAYOR Jon Mitchell is of two minds about Vineyard Wind, which after lengthy regulatory delays seems poised to finally get underway. The mayor is excited about the potential […]
Posted inPolitics
Sullivan refers Fattmans, Lyons to AG
THE STATE’S CHIEF campaign finance regulator on Thursday referred evidence to Attorney General Maura Healey that he believes indicates Sen. Ryan Fattman, Worcester County Register of Probate Stephanie Fattman, Republican […]
Posted inTransportation
T proposes $50 fine for fare evasion
THE MBTA’S proposed new fare evasion policy calls for sharply lower fines with the possibility that the offender’s driver’s license will not be renewed if two or more penalties are […]