Bruce Mohl

Editor, CommonWealth

About Bruce Mohl

Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth magazine. Bruce came to CommonWealth from 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. At CommonWealth, Bruce helped launch the magazine’s website and has written about a wide range of issues with a special focus on politics, tax policy, energy, and gambling. Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Dorchester.

About Bruce Mohl

Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth magazine. Bruce came to CommonWealth from 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. At CommonWealth, Bruce helped launch the magazine’s website and has written about a wide range of issues with a special focus on politics, tax policy, energy, and gambling. Bruce is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Dorchester.

Stories by Bruce Mohl

Revved-up tax growth comes to an end

What does that mean for the just-signed budget and its planned $580m tax cut?

With Democrats united, Healey signs $56b budget

Calls spending plan ‘a product of shared values and deep collaborative partnership’

Sea Installer stops in Salem en route to Vineyard Wind 1

Ship too wide to fit through New Bedford hurricane barrier

Beacon Hill inaction leaves Avangrid in awkward spot

Firm had been counting on adjustments to its transmission line contract

Reviews very positive on Vineyard Wind 1

‘It’s a mammoth, mammoth human undertaking,’ senator says

Greg Torres: A most interesting man

Found success in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors

T unions look to do much better under Healey

Carmen’s Union gets big boost in latest contract

Avangrid provides on-the-water glimpse of offshore wind future

Electricity from six turbines should be flowing in October

House, Senate sniping at each other again

House chairs schedule votes on bills unilaterally

MBTA ahead of schedule on reducing greenhouse gas emissions

But agency is moving at a snail’s pace on buses, commuter rail

Avangrid resuming construction of Mass.-financed hydro line

CEO says Maine project expected to cost $1.5 billion

Eng brings in management reinforcements at the MBTA

General manager says he is restructuring the transit authority

DiZoglio seeks AG’s help in audit fight with Legislature

Accuses Mariano, Spilka of twisting, weaponizing statutes, Constitution

T gives contractor more time to solve slow zone mystery

Original 90-day contract extended until end of August

Mariano says gun bill needs more work

Drops bid for quick passage, pledges action in the fall

Sending a message on Beacon Hill

Legislative brush fires prompt speculation about the true cause

Ominous offshore wind news from Rhode Island

Utility rejects deal with developer as too expensive

Sumner Tunnel congestion called ‘manageable’

Blue Line passenger traffic up 17% on July 12

Retail electricity firms take new tack in fight against Healey, Campbell, and Wu

Hail competition, embrace legislation to weed out industry’s bad apples

Avangrid agrees to pay $48m to terminate offshore wind deal

Developer expected to rebid its project at a higher price in 2024

House provision would allow renegotiation of hydro contracts

It’s unclear how much more Mass. ratepayers will have to pay

March 9, 2020 MGH

Mass General Brigham says cost cutting on track

Savings through first six months total $45.3 million

Shift in thinking on nuclear power

Sweden, Mass. see advantages; Germany moving in opposite direction  

MBTA offering reading material on the Blue Line

New program allows riders to tap into Boston Public Library

Why Barnstable is integral to offshore wind plans

Avangrid exec explains why he thinks electricity should come ashore on Cape

MBTA speed restrictions trending in wrong direction

Since mid-June, slow zones have increased on subway lines

Grid shifts to operating reserves to deal with transmission outage

Shortfall occurred at 6 p.m. Wednesday and was resolved four hours laters

Mass. solar potential called enormous

New mapping tool shows best places to locate panels

Short circuit blamed for 2022 passenger death at Broadway Station

Camera blind spot made it impossible for driver to see person trapped in door

Rep. mixes it up with ‘former government official’

Straus comments about MBTA funding seem directed at Aloisi