Wait a minute: Adrian Walker can actually make a point?
By adamg - Fri, 02/08/2008 - 11:35am.
Just when I'd given up hope, he files a column that is not only about Boston, but, indeed, makes an actual point (that Maureen Feeney is in the palm of the firefighters' union).
The only nit: Walker stating, as a fact, that firefighter Warren Payne "died on duty last year with cocaine in his system." It might wind up being true, but the union still says it's unsubtantiated.
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Speaking of the Globe
Nobody's mentioned that they jumped the dead tree
price from $.50 to $.75. I asked the nice lady
who runs the newstand here what
the reaction has been. She says her returns pile
is about twice as big post-hike.
I can't imagine that this is going to anything but
baaaaaaaaaaaad news for their struggling circulation
numbers.
Then Again...
Today's column is great. A convict who did federal time for gun and drug possession is "turning his life around" by driving erratically with another loaded handgun and five ounces of marijuana, and Walker calls out the justice system in general and the DA in particular for not dismissing the case on no grounds whatsoever except that he's really a good guy.
That was my initial thought as well, but
If you read the column carefully, you'll notice the handgun/pot arrest happened before he went away on the federal charges, which would help Walker's contention the guy deserves a second chance (changed his life in the federal pen, etc., etc.) - if he or his headline writer had done a better job explaining it (it was up near the top somewhere, but I still had to re-read the column to catch it).
Right you are -- harrumphing
Right you are -- harrumphing retracted on the condition that he not bury his point next time out.