http://www.boston.com/news/local/walker en-us 2011-09-11T18:00:40Z http://www.boston.com/ http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/bcom_logo_140w.gif http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/10/boston_seafood_restaurant_boosts_haiti_fishing_industry?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Valentin Abe founded a charity in Haiti to bring a new industry there - aquaculture. Haiti is an island nation, yes, but one with a seriously depleted fish population. Skip Bennett owns a seafood restaurant in Kenmore Square who was looking for a worthy charity to invest in. Their causes intersected, forming an unusual bond between rich and poor. Fancy dinners in Boston are now helping to support poor fishermen in rural Haiti. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2011-09-10T03:59:47Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/05/stuart_death_brings_no_relief_to_bennetts?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Matthew Stuart’s death this weekend left onetime suspect Willie Bennett as the last surviving figure in the city’s most notorious murder case, the 1989 death of Carol DiMaiti Stuart. But the wounds inflicted on the Bennett family have never gone away. Willie Bennett will barely talk at all about the arrest that has defined his life, and his family still feels unfairly maligned. For both Matthew Stuart and Willie Bennett, the effects of the Stuart Case were permanent. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2011-09-05T03:08:37Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/03/90_year_old_battles_the_va_for_her_late_husbands_benefits?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Joseph Chandonnet served in the Army Air Corps for four years during World War II. But his widow has been battling the federal bureaucracy for survivors’s benefits for three times that long. The Veterans Administration says the dementia that took his life in 1993 was not related to his wartime service. She says they are wrong, and her husband’s medical records do too. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2011-09-03T03:48:48Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/29/family_of_man_killed_by_amtrak_train_desperate_for_answers?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns The hardest thing for Yelcie Barlatier has been the unanswered questions. One afternoon earlier this month her 28-year-old son Benjie left their home in Hyde Park and said he was heading into town. “I’ll see you later, Mom,’’ he said. With that, he was gone. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2011-08-29T04:12:18Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/27/tribe_close_to_jackpot?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Polite and soft-spoken, Cedric Cromwell probably doesn’t meet anyone’s stereotype of a high roller. But there’s no doubt he’s a player now. Simply put, it’s been a great week to be the chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag, the Cape Cod-based native tribe poised to win its long-running battle to get into the gaming business. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2011-08-27T04:13:49Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/23/thanks_for_the_memories?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Dianne Wilkerson, Chuck Turner, J. James Marzilli, Sal DiMasi. These are just some of the people owed a debt of thanks from all of us who love the foibles of city and state politics. They have made 2008 an unqualified delight. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-12-23T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/19/governing_patrick?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns For a man charging headlong into a deepening economic crisis, Governor Deval Patrick seemed downright chipper yesterday. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-12-19T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/16/the_neediest_suffer_most?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Amy Lopes has been an administrator at Bay Cove Human Services for five years, but probably not for much longer. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-12-16T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/12/lying_for_love?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Jake Severino had such a sad, sad story. When I wrote about Severino last summer , he was a promising 24-year-old brought low by a terminal brain tumor. His family and friends had arranged a fund-raiser at Florian Hall in Dorchester. They approached me and asked whether I could help get the word out. They were concerned about making sure ... Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-12-12T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/09/lift_to_home_and_health?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Pedro Cendeño Lora knew something was wrong when he was too tired to keep going to work. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-12-09T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/05/spin_cycle_to_wind_down?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Chuck Turner has been involved in his share of campaigns, but the Support Chuck Turner blitz leaves them all in the dust. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-12-05T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/02/a_messenger_of_peace?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns A wall at the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Fields Corner aptly captures the heart of its mission. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-12-02T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/11/21/a_perfect_fit_for_umass?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns At 6-foot-8, J. Keith Motley is impossible to miss at the front of a room - anywhere in a room. The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Boston was in his element Monday morning, at an event touting new partnerships between local colleges and the Boston public schools. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-11-21T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/14/still_a_center_of_attention?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns Surrounded by spiffy new housing and aging small businesses, the two vacant lots on either side of Dudley Street sit like open sores on the corridor between Uphams Corner and Dudley Square. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-11-14T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/11/spotlights_and_shadows?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns The way he presented himself, Ron Wilburn was a man with a vision. I spoke to the man identified as a federal informant after Dejavu, the supper club he proposed for Crosstown, was denied a liquor license in 2007. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-11-11T05:00:00Z met http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/07/unthinkable_is_possible?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Adrian+Walker+columns My father was born in rural Alabama in the 1920s, was drafted into World War II as a college freshman, and returned home four years later to a state in which he could not register to vote. Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist 2008-11-07T05:00:00Z met