Results tagged “adrianwalker”

--The MBTA needs money, and it's not messing around. They're going after those annoying fare evaders who try to get all close up on you when you try to go through the gates. [Boston Herald] more ›

The Globe is blushing right now. Columnist Adrian Walker, most frequently seen getting Universal Hub's dander up, was arrested early Sunday on an OUI. more ›

Reverend Bruce Wall has gone to great lengths to draw attention to the violence on the streets of this city. The last time he appeared on Bostonist, he had published a letter advising tourists not to visit Boston following the death of New York City resident Chiara Levin in February. Wall is in the spotlight again for different reasons. The Globe reported today that his 15-year-old son is a suspect in an armed robbery in... more ›

The death of 13-year-old Steven Odom by a stray bullet inspired a lot of talk about stopping violence on the street, but we've heard it all before. Odom's grieving family is trying to convert that talk into action. In a press conference yesterday afternoon, they called for a meeting with governor Deval Patrick -- and they got one. In WBZ video of the press conference, Kimberly Odom, Steven's mother, spoke in a tone that was... more ›

Bostonist has found that biking around the city is much more convenient that other vehicular travel. Boston may be a walking city, but when you’re looking to get from Central Square to Centre St., the bike ride is only about 20 minutes, it’ll take you that long in a car with no traffic, and a bit longer if you’re taking the subway or busses. The Southwest Corridor park is one of our favorite ways to... more ›

When it isn't wrangling about healthcare, the state legislature has lately been wrangling about whether or not to let illegal immigrants who attend high school in Massachusetts pay in-state tuition at U. Mass. Other people have analyzed this matter more thoroughly and interestingly than Bostonist cares to, but Adrian Walker's column in today's Globe made Bostonist notice just how weird this country's relationship with illegal immigration is: On the one hand, plenty of people are unabashedly opposed to letting illegal immigrants pay in-state rates. But the folks who are campaigning for the bill that would allow the lower rates are illegal immigrants, and Bostonist finds something singularly odd about the whole thing: Clean-cut, culurally American teenagers are going around the state, aggressively campaigning for a proposed bill, but they're only using their first names because they're technically illegal and subject to seizure and deportation by the INS at any time. Of course, that doesn't happen, and none of the opponents of the bill, who rail unrelentingly against illegal immigration, are dropping dimes on these kids either (unlike our friendly live-free-or-die neighbors to the north, who tried unsuccessfully to arrest illegal immigrants in public places, on the theory that they were trespassing on America). Color Bostonist cynical and overly analytical, but this seems to us like a tacit acceptance of the economic benefits of having a permanent underclass: "Feel free to stick around, but no education for you!." Is Bostonist's bleeding-heart liberalism (and the fact that we are married to an immigrant who, despite being legal, has had her share of idiotic bureaucratic difficulties with INS) clouding our ability to understand the grave danger that well-educated young people pose to our nation? Dear readers, please set us straight. more ›