$31M Cut from BPD Budget. Yesterday, the Boston City Council passed a $4.2 billion operating budget that includes a nearly $31 million reduction in Boston Police Department funds. Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Larry Calderone expressed his disappointment by stating, “Sadly, we continue to see Councilors proudly displaying their anti-police bias while exploiting the budget process to hurt the very same families and neighborhoods they claim to represent.” Calderone joins Dan tonight for a discussion.
RMV Beefing Up Staff. To get ahead of the July 1 implementation of the Work and Family Mobility Act, the RMV is adding more staff and extending hours to handle what they expect to be a flood of new applicants for driver’s licenses. Under the new law, applicants will only have to provide two forms of identity, such as a foreign passport and birth certificate or a passport and marriage certificate. Opponents have expressed concerns that allowing the undocumented to obtain these privileges reserved for U.S. citizens only encourages others to follow suit, also warning that undocumented immigrants might illegally use a driver’s license to vote. Dan is looking for your thoughts!
A Spy in Plain Sight. For more than two decades, Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent, spied off and on for Moscow during and after the Cold War. He spied through the terms of four presidents and three FBI directors and became one of the most damaging espionage cases in American history. Lis Wiehl, a former Federal Prosecutor, daughter of an FBI agent, and author of A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen, joins Dan to share an inside perspective on how Hanssen fooled so many for so long.
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