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Adrian Walker

The return of Adrian Walker

By adamg - 4/1/08 - 11:07 am

On the one hand, his column today tells you absolutely nothing you either couldn't have read in a news account or couldn't have already thought to yourself, given a spare 30 seconds (this is just a terrible, terrible tragedy and how many more little kids have to die before we, as a society, do something about it?).

On the other hand, he did write a column about actual breaking Boston news that people are actually talking about (as opposed to some issue several days after the fact that most people could care less about), so give him a hand for that.

Adrian Walker admits to driving drunk

By adamg - 3/25/08 - 9:06 am

Charge will be dismissed in a year if he stays out of trouble, completes alcohol counseling.

Earlier:
Adrian Walker may have a problem.

Adrian Walker may have a problem

By adamg - 3/4/08 - 9:49 am

Walker arrested on OUI charges while in a Globe car early Sunday. Pleaded innocent in Dorchester District Court.

Globe brief.

Does Adrian Walker's column offer any new insights on the deaths of two firefighters in West Roxbury?

By adamg - 2/26/08 - 8:53 am

No.

Compare his column with Peter Gelzinis's column on Saturday, when this was all still breaking news.

Jesus, can somebody get Adrian Walker a book on expository writing, stat?

By adamg - 2/5/08 - 10:52 am

I challenge you to find anything insightful or memorable in Adrian Walker's confused column today, in which he breaks the shocking news that we have a primary today and that the Patriots lost on Sunday.

Hello, sweetheart, get me Adrian Walker

By adamg - 2/1/08 - 8:35 am

Adrian Walker does it again: Re-write a news story from the day before. Today, Walker ponders the possibility that Mitt Romney could lose Massachusetts on Tuesday. Globe readers might be forgiven if they get the feeling they read the same exact thing the day before. Because they did.

Adrian Walker, will you just shut up?

By adamg - 11/6/07 - 4:40 pm

Adrian Walker has the gall today to complain that the city-council election this year is the quietest ever:

While it is tempting to blame the low-key council for at least part of the public's apparent apathy, that wouldn't be entirely fair.

Let me rewrite that sentence for you, Adrian:

While it is tempting to blame the almost non-existent coverage of the council election by the Globe and Herald for at least part of the public's apparent apathy, that wouldn't be entirely fair.

Adrian Walker's faux outrage over street sweeping enforcement

By adamg - 9/7/07 - 11:44 am

I'll leave it to fumin' Joe Keohane to explain why Walker's column today (on people complaining about the towing the city is doing because other people were complaining our streets have become an open trash heap) is so inane. But a couple of questions:

It's Weld STREET

By adamg - 6/15/07 - 5:12 pm

Yes, it is nitpicky of me to point out a mistake in Adrian Walker's column today that is of no real importance: The road in West Roxbury named after Bill Weld's ancestors is Weld Street, not Weld Avenue.

Somebody still remembers Adrian Walker

By adamg - 4/30/07 - 12:05 pm

The Outraged Liberal wakes up this morning and wonders: Whatever happpened to the Globe's other metro columnist? He hasn't been heard from since April 5.

Guess the source, win a pizza

By adamg - 3/1/07 - 7:41 pm

Seth Gitell is offering a pizza from John's Bakery in Roslindale (you don't want to miss that) to whoever guesses the name of the anonymous State House source of a particularly vacuous quote in today's Adrian Walker column.

Globe columnist writes back

By adamg - 3/14/06 - 9:09 am

Ryan Adams didn't like this Adrian Walker column, which called Deval Patrick "squishy" because he didn't provide a lot of policy details at a weekend rally, so he wrote the columnist to complain that Patrick has put some pretty detailed position papers on his Web site. Adams is surprised when Walker writes back. He doesn't like Walker's e-mail, either, but gives him props for responding.

What Adrian Walker didn't tell you

By adamg - 10/13/05 - 12:19 pm

Adrian Walker today takes up the case of Arnold L. King, serving life without parole for a 1971 murder. King, Walker writes, has made a remarkable turnaround behind bars, becoming a model citizen well worthy of probation (pretty much identical to the pleas made by supporters of Norman Porter before he escaped). What Walker doesn't specify is exactly why a jury and judge might have sent King away forever.

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