Globe metro columnists finally have a good week

They must've been eating their columnist Wheaties, because last week we didn't have a single column about state fairs in other parts of the country or boring thumbsuckers called in at the last moment. They actually worked it. Yay, Globe metro columnists!

Kevin Cullen did what he does best - covering stuff like the mob - then followed up with an outrage inducer about a poor maid who won't be seeing any of that $700 billion.

Yvonne Abraham, probably the most consistently decent of the three in recent months, got an interview with the mother of that Lynn kid who disappeared, possibly at the hands of his father.

And even Adrian Walker, normally the print equivalent of a Sominex tablet, turned in a couple of good columns, one on a retired West Roxbury firefighter helping a Haitian couple in Dorchester who lost two children in a fire, the other calling out Dianne Wilkerson on her racist re-election campaign.