Gelzinis: Darkness snuffs out brightly shining light
For a guy who has spent most of his 42 years engaged in mayhem, James Witkowski looked none the worse for wear as he ambled into the arraignment dock at Suffolk Superior Court to face a charge of...
View ArticleGelzinis: Cianci rips Chafee prez bid
As he watched Lincoln Davenport Chafee assume the role of Bozo in last Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Buddy Cianci, the irascible former mayor of Providence, R.I., reflected back on a...
View ArticleGelzinis: Catherine Greig feels the heat as feds seek Whitey’s loot
You can’t squeeze blood from one of those stone statues on Boston Common any more than you can squeeze Catherine Greig for the whereabouts of Whitey Bulger’s buried treasure.But that won’t stop the...
View ArticleGelzinis: Forswearing White House with grace and class
Vice President Joe Biden did two things in the White House Rose Garden yesterday. He simultaneously ended any presidential dreams he had, while assuming total control of the moral high ground in the...
View ArticleGelzinis: Hillary unfazed by GOP fright show
This past week was supposed to try Hillary Clinton, break Hillary Clinton, but instead it has catapulted her to a place of near total supremacy.Let’s skip past the inevitable — Hillary Clinton will...
View ArticleGelzinis: Toying with guns can get you dead
That Gerard Moore is not dead today, or lying in a hospital bed, is a miracle he probably doesn’t deserve.On a Friday night just about two weeks ago, a team of Boston School Police officers responded...
View ArticleGelzinis: Give Owen Labrie a break, judge
If New Hampshire Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler sentences 20-year-old Owen Labrie to jail today for his disastrous attempt to sustain the infamous “Senior Salute” tradition at St. Paul’s School,...
View ArticleGelzinis: It’s a miracle on Old Harbor Street
They came together before a statue of the Blessed Mother yesterday to sip coffee, nibble cake and reflect on the miracle they managed to pull off.Much like David with his slingshot, this band of South...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Make them run in same election as mayor
Today, if we’re lucky, maybe … maybe 15 percent of Boston’s eligible voters will brave the sunshine and mild temperatures to cast their votes for Boston City Council.“Fifteen percent?” Larry DiCara,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Vets cry foul on `paid patriotism' in NFL, MLB and other pro leagues
Marvin Pena, an Army combat vet from Saugus who served two tours in Iraq, says a warm feeling always came over him when he watched crowds at Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park pause to pay tribute to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Marty's Mitty mindset
For more years than I care to admit, I’ve made it a point to watch the Grand Prix of Monaco. It’s the one time I gleefully feed my Walter Mitty fix.To watch this legendary auto race was to imagine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: He’s leaving no veteran behind, in life or death
Genuine American heroes are loathe to talk about their acts of courage, even when they happen to wear a Congressional Medal of Honor.Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr. is no exception. Harry Truman draped the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Basic gratitude saves day, life of troubled vet
Subtitle: ‘This could have gone a number of ways, and most of them looked bad’Boston police Capt. Haseeb Hosein is the district commander at Area B-3 in Mattapan. He was off yesterday, Veterans Day,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Station fire apology film offers no solace
Subtitle: Another sorry excuse“You got a light?”That’s what Jack Russell, frontman for the graying hair band Great White, asked me on that ghastly morning in Warwick, R.I., a dozen years ago.The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Kids growing up in time of terror
Lindsay Grace Sullivan is 11 years old and lives in Chelsea. She has never been to Paris and does not speak French, but as the death toll in last night’s Parisian massacre climbed, she felt compelled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Gruesome attacks hit close to home
The subject of ISIS never came up during the Boston Marathon bombing trial. But it was clear that the Tsarnaev brothers had indeed undergone something of a radical transformation. And tragically,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Supporting refugees ‘regardless of origin’
In the current climate of fear and worry that has engulfed us since the ISIS attack in Paris one week ago, the moral high ground has become a desert.Indeed, it is a lonely place that lots of public...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Iraqi nun looks at Syria refugee battle through lens of own past
Subtitle: Fears turned-away ‘lost people’ could turn to terrorLong before Cardinal Sean O’Malley encouraged Sister Olga Yaqob to establish an order of nuns, The Daughters of Mary of Nazareth, this tiny...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: ISIS overshadowing terrorist in our midst
While we’ve spent the past 10 days obsessing about ISIS jihadis, a homegrown terrorist has quietly been escorted into a Fall River courtroom in cuffs and shackles.Daniel Tavares, 49, killed his own...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gelzinis: Planned Parenthood attack jogs painful images of past carnage
It was impossible for me to watch the events in Colorado Springs play out on Black Friday and not find myself trapped between two haunting memories.Watching an army of police respond to the siege of a...
View Article