Meghna is a reporter in WBUR's news department. Her focus is on transportation and energy issues.
Before joining the newsroom, Meghna was a reporter and fill-in host on WBUR's weekly show, Radio Boston. She produced and directed WBUR’s national news and talk program, On Point, for five years.
In 2006, she spent 10 months as a fellow at the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting. Her work has also been recognized through awards from the Associated Press and the Radio Television News Directors Association.
Meghna holds bachelors degrees civil and environmental engineering from Oregon State University, and a masters degree from Harvard University. Her career has taken various detours through summers performing engineering failure analysis, teaching human physiology, working under the table at an Italian cafe, a turn as assistant curator for space technology at London's National Science Museum, researching flood control solutions for Venice, Italy, and writing two unpublished manuscripts.
She speaks French badly. Enough Italian to get into trouble. And is learning Hindi by subjecting herself to a long series of Bollywood films.
Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca takes a one-two punch from the Boston Herald Tuesday morning. Add to that the interesting media mix that come with these two stories and you have a microcosm of money, media and modern politics in Massachusetts.
Still riding the ripples from the Coakley-Capuano tit-for-tat over abortion and health care reform, Stephen Pagliuca unvieled a new video declaring he’ll be a “reliable” vote on health care reform.
BOSTON — The MBTA is taking its first significant step towards offering realtime information on where its buses are, and when they’ll get to the next stop.
So, he may have accidentally pulled the pin on a political grenade, but when Democratic candidate Stephen Pagliuca inadvertently declared that he’s pro-military draft, he threw himself into a rat’s nest of conviction and contradiction that has long plagued the Democratic party.
Staff for Democratic Senate Candidate have just sent out this blast e-mail to Massachusetts media:
PAGLIUCA STATEMENT CLARIFYING COMMENTS MADE REGARDING A MILITARY DRAFT
CAMBRIDGE, MA – U.S Senate Candidate Steve Pagliuca today clarified his comments made regarding a military draft:
“I was asked a question during this morning’s radio debate about reinstating the military draft that I [...]
Democratic Senate candidate and Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca says he supports the draft.
Not the NBA draft. The military draft.
QUINCY, Mass. — Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law a new set of veterans benefits Wednesday, even as some Massachusetts military members decried deep cuts Patrick recently made to two state homes for soldiers.
Just 27 seconds. That’s all the time MBTA Orange Line operator Charise Lewis had to stop her train. As MBTA security camera images released Friday show, Lewis had just seconds to pull the emergency brake as she headed into North Station to avoid hitting a woman who had fallen on the track.
A sweeping review of MBTA finances found the largest transportation provider in Massachusetts has relied on an overly optimistic and unsustainable financing model that now is compromising safety because it cannot fund critical maintenance and equipment replacements.
Controversy and criticism greeted the new Massachusetts Department of Transportation as it opened its doors Sunday. It is widely hailed as one of the largest governmental reorganizations undertaken by the state in the past 50 years.
BOSTON — A state committee heard almost seven hours of testimony from all imaginable corners of the casino divide on Thursday — the first hearing since House Speaker Robert DeLeo threw his support behind pushing some kind of casino bill into House debate by January 2010.
BOSTON — Looming deficits and potential revenue on the same day: As Gov. Deval Patrick details budget cuts to bridge the $600 million budget gap Thursday, legislators are also holding major hearings on casino gambling in Massachusetts.
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick convened an economic summit of more than 100 business and policy leaders on Tuesday, with the hope of generating new ideas to lift the state out of recession — including a plan to create more funding for small businesses.
BOSTON — Democratic senatorial candidate Alan Khazei is urging business leaders to drop their support for casino gambling in Massachusetts, saying it will irrevocably change the culture and fabric of the state.
BOSTON — Public education has emerged as a high-profile issue in this year’s Boston mayoral contest, though much of the focus has been on the debate over charter schools. Meanwhile, the pilot school program in the city has stalled, leaving many wondering: What happened to this once nationally recognized Boston innovation?
BOSTON — U.S. Senate candidate Alan Khazei unveiled his plan to overhaul public education Thursday, calling education both an economic and moral issue in America.
BOSTON — A massive restructuring of the state’s transportation agencies is on track to reach a major milestone next month. The new Massachusetts Department of Transportation will officially launch on Nov. 1, according to Jeffrey Mullan, the incoming state transportation secretary. But major concerns over labor unions remain.
BOSTON — While the odds are better that a casino gambling bill will make its way through the state Legislature, House Speaker Robert DeLeo said it would not happen in 2009.
BOSTON — It’s not just professional athletes who are at risk of sports-related brain injury and dementia. Up to 10 percent of high-school athletes suffer concussions every season. And some schools are turning to high-tech ways of managing head injuries.
BOSTON — Massachusetts State Treasurer Timothy Cahill has declared his candidacy for governor. Cahill left the Democratic party this summer and will be running as an independent candidate, he said, in order to be free of the “dogma or set of rules and expectations” of the party.
