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Lacking Authority
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
» Committee’s Report
» Ira Millstein’s bio
» Assemblyman Brodsky’s webpage
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 bio
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 Journal
» the Washington Note
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
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