Headshot of Bruce Mohl, Editor at CommonWealth Beacon.

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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Marijuana fuels lobbying firm’s growth

Headshot of Bruce Mohl, Editor at CommonWealth Beacon. by Bruce Mohl

RIDING STRONG REVENUES from marijuana clients, the firm of Smith, Costello & Crawford edged out ML Strategies as the lobbying company with the most revenue during the first half of 2019. According to filings with the secretary of state’s office, Smith, Costello & Crawford reported $1.98 million in lobbying fees during the first six months […]

Posted inPolitics

Trump says windmills aren’t working too well

Headshot of Bruce Mohl, Editor at CommonWealth Beacon. by Bruce Mohl

AT THE END of a long press conference after the Group of 7 summit in Biarritz, France, President Trump responded to a question about his climate change skepticism in a way that didn’t sound promising for those trying to build an offshore wind industry in the United States. “The US has tremendous wealth. The wealth […]

Posted inTransportation

T releases contracts with safety panel members

Headshot of Bruce Mohl, Editor at CommonWealth Beacon. by Bruce Mohl

THE MBTA on Monday released contracts it signed with a trio of experts who were hired two months ago to review the agency’s safety procedures and past derailments. Former US transportation secretary Ray LaHood and his associate Joan DeBoer of DLA Piper LLP were retained at a rate of $35,000 a month. Former acting Federal […]

Posted inEnvironment

3 firms competing in 2d offshore wind procurement

Headshot of Bruce Mohl, Editor at CommonWealth Beacon. by Bruce Mohl

THREE COMPANIES SUBMITTED proposals on Friday for the state’s second offshore wind procurement, an indication that a last-minute budgetary maneuver by Gov. Charlie Baker succeeded in spurring a competitive bid process. Officials with Vineyard Wind, Bay State Wind, and Mayflower Wind Energy confirmed they submitted bids. Officials at a fourth company, Equinor Wind, could not […]

Posted inTransportation

Commuter rail riders ‘somewhat satisfied’

Headshot of Bruce Mohl, Editor at CommonWealth Beacon. by Bruce Mohl

COMMUTER RAIL RIDERS overall are “somewhat satisfied” with the rail system’s performance, according to internal polls commissioned by Keolis Commuter Services that have shown steady but slow improvement over the last four years. In a poll taken of 4,268 passengers riding trains between May 6 and May 12, the commuter rail system received an overall […]

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Stop beating up Seth Moulton

Headshot of Bruce Mohl, Editor at CommonWealth Beacon. by Bruce Mohl

LONG BEFORE Ayanna (Change can’t wait) Pressley defeated incumbent Mike Capuano and long before Joseph (I can’t wait) Kennedy III began ruminating about a run against US Sen. Edward Markey, there was Seth Moulton. Moulton ran against incumbent US Rep. John Tierney in 2014 and won, becoming the first candidate to defeat a sitting Massachusetts […]