Sponsor

wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

Lacking Authority

« previous episode | next episode »

Friday, May 19, 2006

New York State’s hundreds of public authorities, including the MTA and the Empire State Development Corporation, often work in mysterious ways. A bipartisan committee has issued a report calling for better regulation of their operations. Also, Vernon Geberth, the former Commanding Officer of the Bronx Homicide Task Force, on investigating murders in reality versus what we see on the ever-popular television shows, more on the Hayden confirmation hearings and the theology and the marketing of The Da Vinci Code.

Authority on Reform

Ira Millstein, chairman of the New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform
- on his committee's proposals to reform New York State's public authorities
and
Richard Brodsky, assemblyman (D-86th District-Westchester County)
- on reform of New York State's public authorities

Comment

Profiles in Courage

Vernon J. Geberth. former Commanding Officer of the Bronx Homicide Task Force, lecturer, and author, Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques, Fourth Edition (CRC, 2006)
-on his work as a detective and as a trainer in homicide investigations

» Vernon Geberth's ...

Comment

Hayden in Plain Sight

Shane Harris, intelligence correspondent for the National Journal
and
Steve Clemons, director of foreign affairs at the New America Foundation and publisher of the thewashingtonnote.com
-on General Hayden's confirmation hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee

» Shane Harris in the National ...

Comment

Breaking the Code

Peter Boyer, staff writer at the New Yorker
- why Sony is praying the controversy will see tickets to The Da Vinci Code

» Peter Boyer’s article in this week’s New Yorker

Comment