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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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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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