Adrian Walker

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker

Boston has never seen a mayoral campaign like the one Josh Kraft is running, and I don’t particularly mean that as a compliment. A Kraft-supporting super PAC is about to spend $1.4 million to attack Mayor Michelle Wu via every available form of media. There will be many millions more to come, because the deep-pocketed donors funding this project have plenty of cash where that came from. This effort comes as no surprise.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker

No one who has ever spent any time in the no-nonsense courtroom of US District Judge Allison D. Burroughs could have been surprised that she quickly brought the hammer down on Harvard-antagonist-in-chief Donald Trump. Less than 24 hours after the administration barred Harvard from enrolling international students — and told those who are already there that they need to transfer immediately — Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order shutting down that draconian move.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker

Since unimaginable tragedy struck two years ago, Remy Lawrence has good days and bad days. Days of missing her slain son, Tyler, so badly that she barely gets through. And days when the memory — and the legacy — of the child she lost when he was just 13 years old leaves her aloft. Last Friday was one of the best of those days. The Tyler J. Lawrence Memorial Park was dedicated in Norwood, under sunny skies and in the presence of many who loved her son.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker

How can there be so many questions — and so few answers — after a tragedy like the death of Lens Joseph? On April 28, 5-year-old Lens, a student at UP Academy Dorchester, was fatally run over by a school bus that had just dropped him off in Hyde Park after school. Mayor Michelle Wu made a brief statement that day. More facts about the crash seemed certain to emerge, some explanation as to how on earth a child could get hit by a bus he had just gotten off of.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Adrian Walker

Alan Garber seems to be trying to thread a tiny needle. Harvard’s president is valiantly doing battle against President Trump, who is adamantly trying to impose his version of right-wing thought on the university. After Trump moved to freeze $2 billion in federal money due to Harvard last month, Garber issued a stirring defense of Harvard’s right to make its own decisions and chart its own course. He was widely cheered for standing up to a bully and defending the values of higher education.