Howie’s Columns

The hack du jour is Mark Lawton. Who’s that? you ask, as well you might. Lawton is 70 years old, hasn’t been on a ballot since 1982, and since 2010 he’s been grabbing the state kiss…
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Gov. James Michael Curley used to complain that it was tiresome work, posing as a reformer. His successor, Charlie Baker, feels the same way about posing – as a Republican. Which is…
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What do call a civil war in the Massachusetts state Republican party? A shootout in the lifeboat. That’s an old headline, but it certainly applies this morning, as the real…
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The fake Indian’s popularity seems to have a ceiling – a glass ceiling, she no doubt believes, on account of her gender. But my contention is that she is actually butting her war…
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President Harry S Truman had a sign on his desk: “The Buck Stops Here.” Gov. Charlie “Tall Deval” Baker needs a sign on his desk: “The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here.” Have you ever seen…
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Meet Rep. Mark Cusack, D-Braintree – a man with a great thirst for public service. Not to mention a great thirst, period, judging from Cusack’s most recent damp, beer-stained six-month…
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Guess who fled the state again yesterday just as the legislature finally had its hearing on the catastrophe that is the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Gov. Charlie Baker, also known as…
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The House of Horrors – that’s how the federal prosecutors in Whitey Bulger’s racketeering trial described the little home at 799 E. Third Street in South Boston. “That’s where the…
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This is the way the Russian collusion hoax ends, like the famous T.S. Eliot poem, not with a bang but a whimper. So Robert Mueller thinks the current president is named “Trimp,” and…
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Not too many politicians get recorded on tape taking a $25,000 cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent at the State House – and then beat the rap in federal court, twice. Not too…
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