WITH HOT AND HUMID conditions enveloping New England, demand for electricity across the region hit its highest level so far this year at about 6:30 p.m. Monday. This year’s peak experience […]
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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As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity
WHEN RICK HOLMES RETIRED as the opinion editor at the MetroWest Daily News in 2017, he was worried about the decline in journalism and what it would mean for local communities. […]
Posted inPolitics
Kennedy says Markey vote shows need for change
JOE KENNEDY is fond of saying there is more to being a US senator than filing bills and taking votes, but during a televised debate with Ed Markey Sunday night […]
Posted inHealth Care
Baker called Holyoke Soldiers’ Home families
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said on Friday that he has called every family who lost a loved one to COVID-19 at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, and reached about 80 percent of […]
Posted inHealth Care
Baker launches tougher ‘honor’ system for travelers
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Friday announced tougher-sounding restrictions on nearly all travelers entering the state from outside the region, requiring them to quarantine for 14 days or produce a negative […]
Posted inTransportation
T control board to remain largely intact
THE MBTA’S FISCAL AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL BOARD will remain largely intact going forward, as four of the five members, including chair Joseph Aiello, have decided to stay on for the […]
Posted inEnvironment
Healey reluctantly rejects Brookline bylaw
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY’S office on Tuesday reluctantly shot down a bylaw approved by the town of Brookline that would have barred the installation of most fossil fuel infrastructure in […]
Posted inEnvironment
Bernhardt eager for offshore wind ‘that works’
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR David Bernhardt flew into Boston on Tuesday where he defended putting Vineyard Wind, the nation’s first large-scale wind farm, on hold for more than a year and […]
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Legislature’s regular timetable may not be viable this year
THE TIME NEEDED to process legislation on Beacon Hill is running short – or is it? The typical end date for the legislative session is July 31, a week from Friday. […]
Posted inHealth Care
Baker targets 8 communities with COVID-19 testing
This story was updated Wednesday evening at 9:30 with information supplied by the Baker administration. GOV. CHARLIE BAKER is launching a “stop the spread” testing initiative on Friday in eight […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker has mastered art of biting his tongue
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER demonstrated his skill at biting his tongue on Wednesday. At a State House press conference, Baker found a way to disagree in a fairly agreeable way with […]
Posted inEnvironment
Mass. becomes dirty word in Maine referendum fight
CORPORATE SURROGATES for Massachusetts have spent close to $17 million so far battling a referendum question in Maine that seeks to block the importation of hydroelectricity from Quebec using a […]
Posted inHealth Care
Contact tracing effort scaled way back
DR JOIA MUKHERJEE, the chief medical officer at Partners in Health, said the organization has drastically scaled back its contact tracing workforce amid a sharp decline in COVID-19 infections. CommonWealth Magazine […]
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Nursing homes start own Phase 1
LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts, are starting to enter their own Phase 1. The Baker administration is slightly easing visitation restrictions at the state’s […]
Posted inTransportation
Senate pushed to pass transpo revenue package
THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATE, widely considered a bastion of liberalism on Beacon Hill, suddenly finds itself being pushed and prodded by all sorts of progressive groups to follow the lead of […]
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Baker defends recommendation on next Holyoke supt
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Wednesday rebuffed members of the state’s congressional delegation who called for an independent investigation of the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home and defended his decision not to embrace […]
Posted inHealth Care
State’s COVID-19 response continues scaling back
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER is taking more steps to scale back the state’s response to COVID-19, doing away with the voluntary 14-day quarantine for visitors from seven nearby states and cutting […]
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Is Marty Baron out of touch with his newsroom?
MARTY BARON, the newspaper editor who showed no fear in taking on the Catholic Church and now President Trump, is suddenly being described as old-school and out of touch. The 65-year-old […]
Posted inTransportation
I-90 throat options keep coming
TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Stephanie Pollack is trying to winnow down the number of options for how to replace the elevated Massachusetts Turnpike and other transportation infrastructure on the narrow strip of […]
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Spilka makes case for substance over process
IN A WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW on the CommonWealth Codcast, Senate President Karen Spilka kept returning to the theme of substance over process when it comes to legislation dealing with the state’s many […]
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Tensions rising between House and Senate
A correction and a clarification have been added to this story. JUST AS THE LEGISLATURE heads into crunch time on Beacon Hill, tensions appear to be rising between the House and […]
Posted inEducation
State: Students low risk for COVID-19
IN CRAFTING A BACK-TO-SCHOOL PLAN for the fall, the Baker administration is relying on nascent medical research suggesting children under 20 are less likely to both contract COVID-19 and transmit […]
Posted inHealth Care
Walsh is fall guy, but it goes way beyond him
IN HIS 174-PAGE REPORT on the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, Mark Pearlstein and his team paint a portrait of a long-term care facility for veterans that was managed poorly, overseen improperly, […]
Posted inTransportation
Theoharides stirs outrage with Pike stance
TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Stephanie Pollack got a big assist from one of her colleagues in Gov. Charlie Baker’s cabinet on Monday in making the case for a status quo solution to […]