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Howie Carr

Howie Carr is the New York Times best-selling author of The Brothers Bulger and Hitman, in addition to several other Boston organized-crime books and two novels. He is the host of a New England-wide radio talk-show syndicated to more than 20 stations, and is a member of the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago.

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Hack Houdini Tom Petrolati leaving Beacon Hill

Howie Carr Feb 21, 2020

Meet Rep. Tom Petrolati of Ludlow — the hack who got away. In the hackerama since 1986, Petro is finally going away, but not in the way everyone always assumed he would be going…
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Finding corrupt Mass. pols is no gamble

Howie Carr Feb 19, 2020

Here he is, the hack du jour, Rep. David Nangle of Lowell, with two of his closest political friends, Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, in what are customarily described as…
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Spilling the tea on pension payouts for MBTA early retirees

Howie Carr Feb 17, 2020

Take a close look at the chart next to this and tell me you don’t wish you had gone to “work” for the MBTA right out of high school — so that you too could have retired with a full…
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Time to give Roger Stone a break

Howie Carr Feb 14, 2020

It’s time to pardon Roger Stone. Please, Mr. President, put an end to this Deep State miscarriage of justice — a 67-year-old political operative railroaded over “lying” to Congress,…
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Howie Carr: It’s all ‘Bull#*[email protected]’

Howie Carr Feb 10, 2020

“It was all bullshit.” And that sums it up, in four words, the last of which they used to call a “barnyard epithet.” Donald Trump understands exactly how the Democrats have been…
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It’s good to be Donald Trump today

Howie Carr Feb 5, 2020

Everything is falling into place. It’s great to be Donald J. Trump this morning — right now is about as good as it’s ever been since he became president three years ago. The…
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For bent staties still getting pension kiss, apparently crime DOES pay

Howie Carr Feb 3, 2020

Another new month, another big fat pension kiss in the mail for all the crooked “retired” Massachusetts State Police. The latest kiss went out at midnight Friday — just ask…
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Fake Indian Elizabeth Warren is whistling past the Happy Hunting Ground

Howie Carr Jan 29, 2020

When you think of the fake Indian, what’s the first word that comes to your mind? Truth? No? Well, you’re not on the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, which just…
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Today’s lesson at Hack U. is sure to hack you off

Howie Carr Jan 27, 2020

As part of our continuing-education program here at Hackerama University, today’s lecture concerns three important principles in How to Maximize Your Kiss in the Mail: This…
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Howie Carr: We’ve all had just about enough of this Schiff

Howie Carr Jan 24, 2020

Whatever happened to the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution — you know, the one prohibiting infliction of “cruel and unusual punishment” on prisoners? Rep. Adam Schiff has already…
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