Howie’s Columns

Is anyone going to lose his or her $150,000-a-year state pension over this Leigha Genduso scandal? That’s always the ultimate question in the hackerama – how is whatever-it-is going…
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Pay no attention to those photographs on the Internet of Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito yukking it up with disgraced MSP trooper Leigha Genduso. So what if Karyn posed with Leigha in what…
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Can the Massachusetts Gaming Commission walk and chew gum at the same time? How pathetic that these overpaid, underworked payroll patriots didn’t have a clue – not one scintilla of…
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The departed – that’s what you can call all the thousands of drug convictions erased from the books after the epic misconduct of Massachusetts law enforcement these last few years.…
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Do you have the right stuff to become a trooper in the Massachusetts State Police? Have you ever asked yourself, what kind of background do you need to get “on the job” and make…
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There are only three possible ways to describe the top brass of the Massachusetts State Police and the Executive Office of Public Safety (EOPS). Very incompetent, very corrupt, or…
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Althea Garrison has lost so many political races in Boston over the last 37 years that she can’t even remember them all. But now her luck may finally be changing. If Boston City…
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There’s a new hackerama in town – the Cannabis Control Commission. The Weed Commission, for short. Their offices are at 101 Federal Street, on the 13th floor – high above the…
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Is that all there is? Peggy Lee summed up yesterday’s indictment way back when in her song, and then added: “If that’s all there is, my friends, then let’s keep dancing.”…
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Jack Hynes was one of the classiest guys I ever worked with in Boston television, or anywhere else, for that matter. Jack, who died Monday at age 88, was an old-school gentleman,…
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