Howie’s Columns

For John Forbes Kerry, it’s all about the plane. Like Tattoo on Fantasy Island, Liveshot looks to the sky, sees the jet and begins ringing the bell and yelling, “De plane! De…
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Pam Kelley was 18 years old in the summer of 1973 when she accepted a fateful ride in a Jeep from a male member of the Kennedy family on Nantucket.
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Charlie Baker doesn’t want to be just the Grinch who stole Christmas, he wants to steal Thanksgiving, too.
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KATHLEEN E. DONOHUE VS. THE TOWN OF WATERTOWNDownload
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The Watertown Police Department – putting the “sex” back in Middlesex County.
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No good deed goes unpunished — if there was one lesson Howie Winter learned in his 91 years of life, that had to be it. In the early 1970s, Whitey Bulger was on the Hit Parade in…
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Maskachusetts passed another “grim milestone” Thursday – 10,000 “confirmed” deaths from the virus. Yet somehow the news didn’t quite reach the customary “grim milestone” blaring…
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I’m not going to get rid of my cable — I am on Newsmax for an hour a day, after all — but I am watching less and less. I’ve been making a list and checking it twice, ‘cause so many…
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The bad news is, well, you all know what the bad news is this week. The good news is, one of America’s premier poets, Bobby “the Cigar” DeLuca, is a free man once again, and can…
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With the election dominating the news this week, perhaps you haven’t yet realized that the governor of Massachusetts finally made it official. He’s started a new religion. Yes, he…
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