Items are picked up by local columnists and so on.

There were also a few unpaid local columnists who wrote about almost anything, almost like a weekly letter to the editor.

Many Harvard insiders consider the idea virtually unimaginable, but that has not stopped local columnists from suggesting it.

Maybe some teams are concerned over what their local columnists might write if they signed him.

He has written to others: a local columnist, the cable news commentator Nancy Grace.

"The local columnists made the difference," said Don Canning, a deputy county prosecutor.

As one local columnist wrote, "People argue the T line should have gone to Oakland first, and they're right.

One local columnist, applauding the move, referred to Phillips as "a creature."

The record jacket quotes a local columnist who wrote:

Through its guest columnist program, the paper has had as many as 20 local columnists published per month.