Howie’s Columns

The coronavirus tested America’s governors — and unfortunately for them, the grades are in. To quote a line I once heard from my exasperated geometry teacher, “These scores were so…
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That’s my motto. I’ve even produced a t-shirt with those words, and I’m sending one to City Hall, for Mayor Marty Walsh, the latest hypocrite Democrat busted for not wearing one of…
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I got a big promotion this week, on primary election night. The losing Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Shiva Ayyadurai, had gone off on a long rant about his crushing defeat. To…
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Was there a stampede up on the eighth floor of Boston City Hall a few months back when the allegedly crooked Boston Police Department cops found out that the feds were closing in on…
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The dynasty is a dinosaur. Camelot finally out of business last night, much like the end of T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Hollow Men. “This is how the world ends/ Not with a bang, but a…
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The natives are getting restless. That’s the lesson from yesterday’s demonstration at the State House – hundreds of protesters demonstrating against Gov. Charlie Parker’s latest…
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Joe Biden must be hearing the footsteps. Okay, he’s probably hearing a lot of other things down in his basement – voices in his head, perhaps, not to mention the birds chirping…
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Is this really how the Kennedy dynasty in Massachusetts ends? After a century of political treachery, chicanery and duplicity, not to mention scandal and depravity to the max, what…
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I have seen the future of the 2020 elections, and it ain’t pretty. It was at a virtual hearing Monday before the Supreme Judicial Court, with an also-ran candidate in the Fourth…
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Everybody has lost a favorite restaurant or destination in this panic. Actually, we all know any number of places that have gone out of business in these last five months. But most…
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