Howie Carr is an award-winning front-page columnist for the Boston Herald and the host of The Howie Carr Show, a popular New England drive-time talk radio program. Known for his scathing exposes of local politicians, he is regularly featured on NBC's Today, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and CNN. In 1985 he won a National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize. He has been nominated for an Emmy. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.