Lacking Authority

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
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.

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