THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE between Gov. Charlie Baker and the Legislature on climate change legislation comes down to an issue where the two sides don’t seem very far apart at all. […]
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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Number of high-risk communities finally drops
THE STATE’S WEEKLY COVID-19 reports showed improvement on Thursday, with the number of high-risk communities dropping for the first time in months and vaccine shipments to the state increasing slightly […]
Posted inTransportation
Pollack headed to Federal Highway Administration
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION on Thursday tapped Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack as deputy administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, creating a yawning void in the state’s transportation bureaucracy. Gov. Charlie […]
Posted inTransportation
Baker appointee ‘mourns’ transportation vetoes
ONE OF GOV. CHARLIE BAKER’S top transportation appointees took to Twitter on Tuesday to mourn four ”heart-breaking vetoes” the governor made last week to the transportation bond bill. Monica Tibbits-Nutt, who […]
Posted inEnvironment
Mariano, Spilka take defiant tone on climate change
HOUSE SPEAKER Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka on Tuesday set in motion passage of the same climate change bill that passed the Legislature last session and was vetoed […]
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Debate over special elections heated — and complicated
WITH THE SUDDEN EXIT of the mayor of Lawrence and imminent expected departure of Boston’s mayor, officials in both communities have scrambled to head off special elections that are called for […]
Posted inEnvironment
Questions on Baker’s $6b climate change cost estimate
THE SENATE’S POINT person on climate change legislation said he doesn’t know where Gov. Charlie Baker came up with his estimate that the Legislature’s target for emissions reductions in 2030 […]
Posted inTransportation
Baker vetoes key policy initiatives in transportation bond bill
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER signed the Legislature’s transportation bond bill into law on Friday, but used his line-item veto to remove proposals raising fees on Uber and Lyft rides, establishing means-tested […]
Posted inEnvironment
In veto letter, Baker objects to a lot in climate change bill
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Thursday “reluctantly” vetoed a sweeping climate change bill sent to him by the Legislature, saying there were a number of provisions in the legislation “to which […]
Posted inHealth Care
Vaccine shipments slow; high-risk communities rise
THE NUMBER of communities considered high-risk for COVID-19 continued to creep up on Thursday, even as the shipment of vaccines to Massachusetts appeared to be slowing. In the state’s weekly […]
Posted inTransportation
Proposed Uber, Lyft fees could raise up to $112m
NEW FEES on Uber and Lyft rides contained in the transportation bond bill sitting on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk could raise somewhere between $56 million and $112 million, according to […]
Posted inPolitics
On climate change bill, it might be ‘groundhog day’
THE LEADERS of the House and Senate on Wednesday put pressure on Gov. Charlie Baker to sign a climate change bill into law by warning him that the two branches […]
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Healey sitting on large campaign war chest
ATTORNEY GENERAL Maura Healey is sitting on a mountain of campaign cash, raising the question of what she’s going to do with it. Healey’s campaign finance reports indicate she had […]
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Worries mount over climate change bill
COULD GOV. CHARLIE Baker veto the climate change bill? It seems hard to believe, but several supporters of the sweeping legislation say they are hearing troubling reports coming out of […]
Posted inTransportation
Edit averts fight over Allston project
THE MASSACHUSETTS Department of Transportation board avoided a potentially divisive fight on Monday between several of the state’s top transportation officials by watering down a resolution on how to fund […]
Posted inEconomy
Developer sees glass half-full on commercial real estate
ONE OF BOSTON’S top developers, a self-described half-glass-full guy, says he remains bullish on commercial real estate despite the rise of remote work during the coronavirus pandemic. Tom O’Brien, the […]
Posted inTransportation
Finances take center stage on Allston project
AFTER YEARS of trying to reach consensus on what to build at the Allston I-90 interchange, state transportation officials now appear to be shifting gears and planning to let finances […]
Posted inEnvironment
Mayflower Wind cutting its price 10%
MAYFLOWER WIND is cutting its price for delivering electricity to Massachusetts customers by roughly 10 percent with the help of a new federal tax credit included in the recent COVID-19 […]
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62% of cities and towns now high risk
THE NUMBER of communities considered high risk for COVID-19 resumed its upward climb on Thursday, as 29 municipalities were added to the list, bringing the total to 219, or 62 […]
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A closer look at the sausage-making
THE AVALANCHE of bills that came out of the Legislature during the nearly 17-hour session spanning Tuesday and Wednesday was a classic case in which lawmakers would argue that the […]
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Mass. tax revenues continue resilient run
MASSACHUSETTS TAX REVENUES continued to be remarkably resilient in December, as collections were up 8.8 percent over the same pre-COVID month a year ago and up 2.7 percent in the […]
Posted inPolitics
Mariano elected speaker again; Spilka, too
REP. RONALD MARIANO of Quincy was sworn in as House speaker on Wednesday promising honesty and straight talk, a leadership team that reflects the chamber’s diversity, and strong oversight of […]
Posted inTransportation
Legislature proposes new Uber, Lyft fees
THE LEGISLATURE approved new fees on Uber and Lyft rides Wednesday morning and required the companies to provide much more detailed information on rideshare drivers and their work activities. The […]
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Where deadlines, rules, time are malleable
THE 2019-2020 legislative session was scheduled to end on Tuesday, but there was still work to be done at midnight so lawmakers kept extending the session into the wee hours […]