Adrian Walker
Associate Editor and Columnist at The Boston Globe
Columnist/Associate Editor @BostonGlobe. @GlobeSpotlight alum.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker
Ultimately, Harvard faced a stark but easy choice. Because here’s the thing about appeasement: The demands never end. Harvard University has officially refused to accept President Trump’s attempt to force it into what would have amounted to receivership. The federal government demanded that the university agree to a long list of radical demands, including walking away from any commitment to diversity or equity in any form.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker
Bill Richard is a humble man. But his pride is evident as he surveys the next monument to his late son’s indomitable spirit. Ground gets broken Thursday on The Fieldhouse+, an athletic center and community space near Columbia Point in Dorchester. A joint venture of the Martin Richard Foundation and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, the $70 million project will include basketball courts, an indoor soccer field, kitchens, a theater, and meeting rooms.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker
The fall of City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson — stunning as it is — might not be terrible news for her Roxbury constituents. Even before her surprise announcement Tuesday that she plans to step down after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges, she was already viewed as perhaps the most vulnerable councilor up for reelection this year. Her exit will guarantee fresh blood in the seat, which is precisely what it needs. There are already three declared candidates for the seat.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker
It must be nice to hold a job as utterly lacking in accountability as Tom Homan’s. To be able to just proclaim, without producing one iota of evidence, that your actions have rendered entire cities and states safer. And that you have every right to suspend the rights of others at will. Homan’s name might sound vaguely familiar. He is President Trump’s so-called “border czar”.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker
These haven’t been the best of times for Chuck Schumer, the besieged leader of the Senate’s Democrats. Since agreeing to back a budget bill crafted by GOP House and Senate rather than risk a government shutdown — acting out of fear, he says, that a lot of it might never reopen — Schumer has become persona non grata to a lot of his party’s frustrated base.
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