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Her badge of courage

Jane Moran was a young police officer in Southborough, just arriving for her 8 a.m. shift, when she heard the screams. She recalls following the sound and discovered it was coming from the squad room. There she discovered a police dispatcher, Katherine ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Michael Duffy (politician),  Central Intelligence Agency

A charisma shortage

Martha Coakley strolled into a union hall in Dorchester Wednesday waving, a little stiffly, to the membership of the Service Employees International Union Local 1199. The union endorsed the attorney general in her bid for the US Senate weeks ago. But ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martha Coakley,  Service Employees International Union,  U.S. Senate,  Edward M. Kennedy,  Michael Capuano

An agency in turmoil

Angelo McClain’s homecoming was not supposed to be this rocky. When the longtime social services director - who worked at a caseworker in Roxbury before making his name as a children services executive in New Jersey - was named commissioner of the ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Service Employees International Union

Alimony agony

Rudolph Pierce thought it was time to retire. But as a veteran member of the Massachusetts bar - and a former judge - he must have known that shedding the burden of alimony would never be so easy. And it won’t be. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled this ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Dichotomy of a poverty foe

Robert Coard’s funeral at Emmanuel Church yesterday drew a telling mix of the powerful and not-so-powerful - fitting for an antipoverty activist far more comfortable than most in the corridors of power. Coard, who died last week at the age of 82, has ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Edward Markey,  Edward M. Kennedy,  John Drew

Lost Marine’s lasting gift

Joan Jose Duran was a guy who was loved for his optimistic spirit. He once served as the punter for the undermanned Boston Latin School football team, and “he wasn’t actually a good punter,’’ said his teammate, Dan Weissman. “But he had this can-do ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Benjamin Franklin,  Joseph P. Kennedy,  Abercrombie & Fitch

The gift of opportunity

Robert V. Ward Jr. has a unique perspective on the war between Southern New England School of Law, which seeks to become part of the state university system, and its competitors in Boston, who oppose the idea. “It’s too bad they’ve forgotten about ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Ward,  Deval Patrick

Stuart case still felt

Twenty years ago today - tonight, actually - as Charles Stuart drove his pregnant wife, Carol, home from a birthing class at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he stopped the car in Mission Hill, pulled out a gun, and shot her to death. He also wounded ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ron Bell (politician),  Deval Patrick

Sticking to his style

Michael Capuano was hanging out in the heart of friendly territory when he walked into Kelly’s Diner one morning this week. The diner is a converted railway car in Somerville’s Ball Square, the city that Capuano ran as mayor before being elected to ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Capuano,  Edward M. Kennedy,  Martha Coakley

A race worthy of attention

The day starts early for City Council candidates, as they battle to win attention, let alone votes. So Ayanna Pressley had already shaken hands at the Forest Hills MBTA Station for two hours when we met yesterday morning. She is one of the eight ...

From ADRIAN WALKER, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Joseph P. Kennedy,  John F. Kerry

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