The (ahem) inside track on the Herald. Not much good news coming out of Wingo Square these days. Click here for my update on the Boston Herald in the post-Andy Costello era.

One good move, though: the paper has shifted columnist Howard Manly to the op-ed page. Manly's stuff tends to get lost inside the Herald's hyperkinetic news hole. This should give him some new readers.

New in this week's Phoenix. In addition to my Herald update, I've got a piece on how John Kerry can survive the Republicans' flying monkeys in the run-up to the Democratic National Convention.