“What’s @ Risk” airs every Saturday night from 11pm to midnight on WBZ and WBZ.com. The structure of the show revolves around commentary, discussions and interviews along with topical sound bites, comedy, and great music.
The show is hosted by Mike Christian, CEO of Risk Strategies Company (RSC). Since RSC is an insurance and risk management organization, there is often an aspect of risk incorporated into most discussions. However, the overriding theme of the show is to educate the listeners and find the opportunity in risk. In today’s world, individuals and businesses are facing significant risk. From climate change to cyber attacks to the financial crisis to business/social risk, there is no shortage of topics. The show has become a forum for individuals, local businesses, authors, and experts in various fields to talk about their perspectives, ideas, and solutions.
What’s @ Risk #49 Saturday February 6, 2009 Segment #1
W@R talks with Matt Harrison, author of The American Evolution and founder of the Prometheus Institute, about Charles Darwin's theories and their relevance to today's economic risks.
What’s @ Risk #48 Saturday January 30, 2010 Segment #2
Best of W@R continues loss of privacy discussion with Ronald Goldfarb, followed by Paul Nicholas President and COO of Millivision Technologies, maker of security products and whole body scanners.
What’s @ Risk #48 Saturday January 30, 2010 Segment #1
Best of W@R looks at back at the issues around loss of privacy through our interview with Ronald L. Goldfarb author of “In Confidence: When To Protect Secrecy & When To Require Disclosure”
What’s @ Risk #47 Saturday January 23, 2010 Segment #2
W@R examines spying techniques, the latest technologies used by the military and the risk of dealing with Russia today in our conversation with Christopher Reich, author of Rules of Vengeance.
W@R Show #46 Saturday January 16, 2010 Segment #2
W@R speaks with Derek Shulman, Director of the Anti-defamation League of New England and Diego Portillo of The Latino Professional Network about the newly formed Latino/Jewish Roundtable.
W@R Show #46 Saturday January 16, 2010 Segment #1
W@R examines how a huge the forest fire in the early 1900’s set the stage for the catastrophic fires of today with Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.
What’s @ Risk #45 Saturday January 9, 2010 Segment #2
W@R revisits the topic of financial risk and it’s impact on retirees and pre-retirees with Julie Jason, author of the AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad.
What’s @ Risk #45 Saturday January 9, 2010 Segment #1
W@R examines the risk of not paying attention in our discussion with Joseph Cardillo author of Can I Have Your Attention? His views on thinking fast, finding your focus and sharpening your attention.
What's @ Risk #44 Saturday January 2, 2010 Segment #2
W@R speaks with Blake Morrison Investigative Reporter of USA Today on The Smokestack Effect which examines Industrial Pollution near our schools. Then, we discuss the pervasive risk of prostate cancer in men with Dr. Eric Klein.
What's @ Risk #44 Saturday January 2, 2010 Segment #1
W@R starts 2010 with a look at the risk of employee theft in our conversation with BC Krishna, co-author of Insidious - How Trusted Employees Steal Millions and Why It's So Hard for Banks to Stop Them.
What’s @ Risk #43 Saturday December 26, 2009 Segment #1
In the spirit of the season, W@R talks with Cami Walker, author of 29 Gifts in 29 Days; despite the challenges of MS, Cami has made a career out of giving to others.
What's @ Risk #42 Saturday December 19, 2009 Segment #1
W@R talks to Dr. James Meschino author of The Meschino Optimal Living Program: Seven Steps To A Healthy, Fit Age-Resistant Body about how to delay the aging process and change the way we live.
What’s @ Risk #41 Saturday December 12, 2009 Segment #2
Dr. Gordon Livingston author of How to Love discusses the risk of choosing the wrong partner in life and his insights into love compatibility, marriage and long term happiness.
What’s @ Risk #41 Saturday December 12, 2009 Segment #1
W@R examines the risk and rewards of Wall Street with Jonathan Clements, author of The Little Book of Main Street Money: 21 Simple Truths that Help Real People Make Real Money.
What’s @ Risk #32 Saturday October 10, 2009 Segment #2
Discussion on Heroin addiction with Richard Farrell, Author of What’s Left of Us. From middle class to homeless…from football hero to heroin from the darkness to recovery.
What’s @ Risk #39 Saturday November 28, 2009 - Segment #2
Is there such a thing as healthy hating? W@R talks with Marc Hershon, co- author of I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job.
What’s @ Risk #39 Saturday November 28, 2009 - Segment #1
W@R examines the ageless art of preparing custom medications in our interview with Stephen Bernardi, Pharmacist and owner of Johnson Compounding and Wellness Center of Waltham, MA.
What’s @ Risk #38 Saturday November 21, 2009 Segment #2
Is today’s difficult environment spurring a greater focus on a higher force? We attempt to answer that and other theological questions through our interview with Andrew Pessin, author of The God Question.
What’s @ Risk #38 Saturday November 21, 2009 Segment #1
W@R continues our ongoing examination of Cyber Risk as we discuss the new Red Flags Rule and Identity Theft Prevention Programs with Eduard Goodman, Chief Privacy Officer of Identity Theft 911.
What’s @ Risk #37 Saturday November 14, 2009 Segment #2
Focusing on the Risk we all face, W@R discusses infectious diseases and the H1N1 Pandemic with noted expert Dr. Stephen Zinner, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Cambridge, MA-based Mount Auburn Hospital.
What’s @ Risk #37 Saturday November 14, 2009 Segment #1
W@R looks into the hot button topics of Health Care Reform and the Chronic Care Model with Dr Benjamin Littenberg, Founder and CEO of Vermedx, the Burlington, Vermont-based Health Care and Information Technology Company with a focus on Diabetes and other
What’s @ Risk #36 Saturday November 7, 2009 Segment #1
W@R replays two of our favorite segments beginning with Thomas Childers, author of the haunting “Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II.”
What’s @ Risk #34 Saturday October 24, 2009 - Segment #2
W@R looks at why the Generation Y employees present new challenges to the workforce with Dr. Joanne Sujansky, (CPS) who, with Dr. Jan Ferri-Reed, authored Keeping the Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation - and What
What’s @ Risk #34 Saturday October 24, 2009 - Segment #1
W@R looks at the explosive risk of Medical Identity Theft with David Ting, Founder and CTO of Imprivata, Inc. the worldwide Identity Management Company, headquartered in Lexington, MA.
What’s @ Risk #33 Saturday October 17, 2009 Segment #2
Dr. Don Colbert-Part 2. And, promoting economic prosperity in the inner city with Deborah Shufrin, Sr. VP and Director of Programs, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC).
What’s @ Risk #33 Saturday October 17, 2009 Segment #1
W@R discusses Physical Security Information Management with David Fowler, Senior Vice President Marketing and Product Development at VidSys, Inc. Also, Part 1 with Dr. Don Colbert, author of Eat This And Live.
What's @ Risk #32 Saturday October 10, 2009 Segment #1
Discussion on crisis management in business with Richard Nicolazzo, Founder & CEO of Nicolazzo & Associates, a nationally-known strategic communications management firm providing high-level professional counsel and services.
What's @ Risk #31 Saturday October 3, 2009 Segment #2
What is Intelligent Giving? Writer, Editor and Author Joanna Krotz explains through her new book, The Guide to Intelligent Giving: Making a Difference in the World – and in your Own Life.
What’s @ Risk #31 Saturday October 3, 2009 Segment #1
W@R looks at the topic of improving workplace performance through our interview with Jim Kimberly, Founder and President of Sapphire Consulting, LLC of Amherst, NH. Sapphire focuses on “Unlocking Potential to Enhance Performance.”
What’s @ Risk #30 Saturday September 26, 2009 Segment #1
W@R looks at rise of the violent MS-13 gang with author Samuel Logan through his new book This Is For The Mara Salvatrucha – Inside the MS-13 America’s Most Violent Gang.
What’s @ Risk #28 Saturday September 12, 2009 Segment #2
Discussion on overcoming and breaking the cycle of depression with Dr Stephen S. Ilardi, author of “The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program To Beat Depression Without Drugs”
What's @ Risk #28 Saturday September 12, 2009 Segment #1
Interview with Michael Gray Founder and CEO of Global Relief Technologies whose software helps organizations and businesses in remote or disconnected environments report critical information in real time.
What’s @ Risk #27 Saturday September 5, 2009 Segment #1
W@R continues our look at Health Care through our conversation with Richard Bane, Chairman of the Massachusetts Senior Care Association and CEO of Bane Care Management headquartered in Salem, MA.
What’s @ Risk #26 Segment #2 Saturday August 29, 2009
Continuation our conversation with Jim Hayes of The College Planning Authority, followed by Eve Brown-Waite, author of “First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria.”
What’s @ Risk #26 Segment #1 Saturday August 29, 2009
Interview with Casey Sherman author of “The Finest Hours”, the spectacular true story of the heroic Coast Guard rescue off the shores of Cape Cod in 1952. We then discuss planning for college with Jim Hayes of The College Planning Authority.
What’s @ Risk #25 Saturday August 22, 2009 Segment #2
Continuing our Health Care discussion with Randall Starling, author of “The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Heart Failure”, followed by an interview with Jeffrey Leerink, Chairman & CEO of Leerink Swann, the Boston based firm focused on the Health Care inve
What’s @ Risk #25 Saturday August 22, 2009 Segment #1
Tonight’s focus is on Health Care beginning with Dr. Leonard Berry co-author of “Management Lessons From Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the Worlds Most Admired Service Organizations.”
What’s @ Risk Show #24 8/15/09 Segment 2
What’s @ Risk Best Of replays this May 2 discussion on “functioning alcoholics” with Sarah Allen Benton author of “Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Professional Views and Personal Insights
What’s @ Risk Show #24 8/15/09 Segment 1
What’s @ Risk Best Of replays this May 2 discussion on Cyber Risk with Paul Royal, Principal Research Scientist for Atlanta based Web Security Company Purewire on the Convicker Virus and Online Interaction.
What’s @ Risk #23 Saturday August 8, 2009 Segment #2
Filmmaker Joe Cultrea, discusses his award winning film “Hand of God” – examining Joe’s family, the Catholic Church clergy sex abuse of his brother Paul and the heartbreaking closing of his family’s local church, St Mary’s in Salem, MA.
What’s @ Risk #22 Saturday August 1, 2009 Segment #2
Discussion on transforming yourself with motivational speaker Mike Robbins author of “Be Yourself Everyone Else Is Already Taken: The Power of Authenticity to Transform Your Life and Relationships”
What’s @ Risk #21 Saturday July 25, 2009 Segment #2
What’s @ Risk interview with Dr. Mike Evans, award winning journalist and one of America’s top experts on Israel and the Middle East. Dr Evans is author of 18 books including the latest, “Jimmy Carter: The Liberal Left and World Chaos”
What's @ Risk #20 Saturday July 18, 2009 Segment #2
Discussion on Digital Recycling and E-waste with Kristina Kennedy, Senior Manager of Branding and Communication for Boston based Gazelle.com. Plus, Everything about “Twitter” with Sarah Milstein co-author of The Twitter Book.
What’s @ Risk #20 Saturday July 18th 2009 Segment #1
Discussion on World War II veterans and how this war shattered so many of their lives with Thomas Childers, author of “Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II”
What’s @ Risk #19 Saturday July 11th 2009 Segment #2
What happened to our heroes? Interview with Neil Strauss, author of, “Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life.” It’s one man’s story of a dangerous world and how to stay alive in it.
What’s @ Risk #17 Saturday June 27, 2009 Segment #1
Discussion on the risks and rewards of starting your own business with Pamela Slim, author of “Escape from Cubicle Nation” – From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur.
What’s @ Risk #16 June 20, 2009 Segment #2
Discussion with Kimberly A. Tessmer, author of Tell Me What to Eat if I Have Celiac Disease: Nutrition You Can Live With. Conversation on how current economic conditions are effecting Fire Departments across the country with Chief Jim Trainor, President o
What’s @ Risk #16 June 20, 2009 Segment #1
W@R continues conversations on Health Care with Dr. Sreedhar Potarazu, author of the groundbreaking new book, Get Off the Dime, The Secret to Changing Who Pays For Your Healthcare.
What’s @ Risk #14 June 6, 2009 Segment #2
Discussion on obesity in America with Hank Cardello author of “Stuffed: An Insider’s Look at Who’s (Really) Making America Fat”
What’s @ Risk #14 June 6, 2009 Segment #1
Discussion on Children’s Fitness as a lifestyle with Len Saunders, Children’s Health & Fitness Innovator and creator of Project ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) focused on making fitness fun for kids.
What’s @ Risk Show # 13 May 30, 2009 Segment #2
Interview on “Business Words” and their impact with David C Scott, author of the “American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms – Today’s Language of Business and Finance at Your Finger Tips.”
Show # 12 May 23, 2009
“Best Of” Segment #2 Interview with Mike Rothman of EIQ Networks on Cyber Risk
Show # 12 May 23, 2009
“Best Of” Segment #1 Interview with Jeffrey Newman of law firm Prince Lobel on media/entertainment law and celebrity marketing.
Show #11 May 16, 2009 Segment #2
Part 2 of conversation with Shari B. Olefson, author of “Foreclosure Nation: Mortgaging the American Dream” Plus interview with Ken Shuman of the on line Real Estate web site Trulia.com
Show #11 May 16, 2009 Segment #1
Discussion of the current Financial Landscape including Personal Debt Management, Home Foreclosures and on line Real Estate information beginning with Interview of Lucy Vellma, author of, “Who Me? Debt Free? A Christians Guide to Living a Debt Free Life
Show #10 5/9/09 Segment 2
Interview with RJ Valentine, Entrepreneur, Owner - F1 Boston & Professional Race Car Driver.
Show #10 5/9/09 Segment 1
Interview with Joe Lamacchia author of “Blue Collar and Proud of It” and founder of www.bluecollarandproudofit.com
Show #9 5/2/09 Segment 2
Discussion on “functioning alcoholics” with Sarah Allen Benton author of “Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Professional Views and Personal Insights”
Show #9 5/2/09 Segment 1
What’s @ Risk continuing series on Cyber Risk – Interview with Paul Royal, Principal Research Scientist for Atlanta based Web Security Company Purewire on the Convicker Virus and online interaction.
Show #8 4/25/09 Segment 2
Interview with Paul E. Nicholas President and Chief Operating Office of Millivision Technologies, South Deerfield, MA, producers of security products and whole body scanners.
Show #8 4/25/09 Segment 1
Interview with Ronald L. Goldfarb author of “In Confidence: When To Protect Secrecy & When To Require Disclosure” - a look at the issues around the loss of privacy.
Show #7 4/18/09 Segment 1
Interview on improving driver skills with Brandon Bogarth of In Control Crash Prevention Training
Show #6 4/11/09 Segment 2
The What’s @ Risk Baseball Show – Stories, Audio Clips and Interview with New England Collegiate Baseball League North Shore Navigators Owner Phil Rosenfield & GM Pete Delani.
Show #6 4/11/09 Segment 1
The What’s @ Risk Baseball Show – Stories, Audio Clips and Interview with New England Collegiate Baseball League North Shore Navigators Owner Phil Rosenfield & GM Pete Delani.
Show #5 4/4/09 Segment 2
Interview on cyber risk & email theft at work with Steve Wong of Clearsight Networks
Show # 5 4/4/09 Segment 1
Interview on personal finance with Beth Kobliner author of “Get A Financial Life - Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties”
Show #4 3/28/09 Segment 2
Interview on top CEO’s with Umesh Ramakrishnan author of, “There’s No Elevator To The Top”
Show #4 3/28/09 Segment 1
Interview on media/entertainment law and celebrity marketing with Jeffrey Newman of Prince Lobel
Show #3 3/21/09 Segment 2
Interview on the St. Joseph’s Food Pantry in Salem, Ma with Director, VeAnn Campbell
Show #2 3/14/09 Segment 1
Interview on Food Safety with Jaydee Hanson from the Center for Food Safety
Show #1 3/7/09 Segment 2
Continued interview on Healthcare reform in the U.S. with John Greenbaum of Risk Strategies Company
Show #1 3/7/09 Segment 1
Interview on Healthcare reform in the U.S. with John Greenbaum of Risk Strategies Company
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What's @ Risk Host Mike Christian
Mike Christian has 30 years of sales and senior management experience with diverse insurance and risk management organizations. As an insurance broker and consultant, Mike’s experience in both account and operations management has led to his involvement in all aspects of risk management/insurance programs for his clients. He specializes in structuring and managing insurance and risk financing programs for middle market and national clients. Mike is currently President of Risk Strategies Company (RSC), an organization dedicated to providing insurance and risk management solutions to commercial organizations. Mike started RSC in 1997 as a consulting firm and, in 12 years, has grown the company into one of the leading brokerage firms in the US. With over $600 million in premiums, the firm has developed through innovative marketing, acquisitions, and geographic expansion. The firm has ten offices nationally and is ranked in the top 100 brokerage firms in the world.
Risk Strategies Company (RSC) was established in 1997 to respond to the market need for high level, consultative support of insurance and risk management issues. With a focus on middle market companies, RSC provides insurance brokerage and risk management services to its clients. RSC is a national retail brokerage that provides property & liability and health & welfare insurance products to both privately held and publicly traded commercial clients. RSC takes a team approach with its clients by assigning the appropriate resources to each engagement. The objective is always to protect client assets in an efficient and cost effective manner. Each client brings unique challenges and RSC provides risk control and risk financing solutions through insurance expertise, carrier relationships, transferable knowledge, creativity, and negotiating skills.
Snow continues to move east headed for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region and Southern New England. The storm hit the Midwest early, closing schools and greeting commuters with slick, slushy roads from Minneapolis and Chicago to Louisville, Ky. Hundreds of flights were canceled at Chicago's airports as the storm moved across Illinois, where up to a foot of snow was forecast. Powerful winds and snow are expected by the afternoon, and could leave as much as 20 inches of new snow in Washington. New York City announced students would have a rare snow day Wednesday, only the third in six years.
The state medical examiner has ruled the death of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan's father as a homicide. The ME's office says 70-year old Daniel Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after suffering a neck injury so severe it damaged his voice box. The findings could prompt new charges against Kerrigan's brother, Mark. Daniel Kerrigan died Jan. 24 after what authorities said was a struggle his 45-year-old son. The younger Kerrigan has pleaded not guilty to assault and is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
A Massachusetts woman was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter. Carolyn Riley, 35, was accused of overmedicating her daughter, Rebecca, on powerful drugs prescribed by a psychiatrist who diagnosed her with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder by the time she was 3.
Some workers building a Connecticut power plant shattered by a gas explosion had been spending more than 80 hours a week there before the blast killed five Sunday, The Associated Press has learned. One employee said workers smelled gas less than an hour beforehand and were told to open doors wider for air.
The man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday, then fled, and he is considered dangerous, authorities said. Leeland Eisenberg cut off his monitor just after 10 a.m., one day after being given a "last chance" at freedom by a judge who released him despite multiple probation violations.
The city of Gloucester has filed a $1.3 million insurance claim against the company that ran its drinking water system during last summer's contamination crisis that required a nearly three-week long boil order. City lawyer Suzanne Egan tells The Gloucester Daily Times that in the claim filed last month the city alleges "breach of contract" by United Water.
A Brockton man whose murder conviction was overturned by the state's highest court will stand trial for a second time in connection with a three-decade-old slaying. The Cape Cod Times reports that prosecutors and defense lawyers on Monday agreed to begin Steven Stewart's retrial on November 1st.
A Massachusetts woman who says she was forced to move out of her Boston condominium because of secondhand smoke from a neighbor is suing her real estate broker. Alyssa Burrage said her broker repeatedly assured her that the owner of the condo she was buying in 2006 was a smoker and the smell would go away.
A House committee is recommending against repealing New Hampshire's five-week-old gay marriage law. The Judiciary Committee also voted Tuesday to recommend that the House kill a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. The vote was 12-8 on both measures, largely along party lines led by Democratic opposition.
A Boston real estate developer has been charged with sending enforcers to threaten a local man over a $90,000 business debt. The Boston Globe reports that according the FBI, David Gefke, president of First Capital Mortgage Group in Boston and East Springfield LLC, hired Michael Lee to go to the alleged victim's office on Jan. 29 and demand payment.
A member of a BMW car club who was out driving with other BMW enthusiasts when he struck and killed a woman walking her dog has been convicted of motor vehicle homicide. David Conant was convicted in Fitchburg District Court on Monday after a two-day bench trial of striking 54-year-old Elizabeth Powers McCaffrey in November 2008 just yards from her Leominster home.
A Sudbury man has avoided jail time but must pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing human bones from a 19th century burial vault. A Framingham District Court judge on Monday ordered Leonard Caira to pay an estimated $21,000 in restitution, serve two years of probation and perform 50 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to removing remains.
The scene outside the Bolyston Street Green Line stop (WBZ-TV)
An MBTA spokesman says there were no reports of injuries after a subway trolley rear-ended another trolley at low speed. Agency spokesman Joe Pesaturo says a Green Line car moving eastbound tapped a stationary trolley in the Boylston station at about 9 a.m. on Tuesday. One of the trolleys had some minor damage.
Quincy native Joseph Murphy, first deputy commissioner at the Division of Insurance since 2006, was named Monday as the state's insurance commissioner, a post he had held on an acting basis since Nonnie Burnes stepped down in September.
Automotive repair shops cheered Monday’s committee approval of legislation that would force manufacturers to provide repair shops information and diagnostic tools currently provided to franchised dealer service centers. The bill now heads to the Senate.
Three Massachusetts women remain jailed following a high speed chase that ended when the car they were in crashed in New Hampshire. During the chase that began about 8:15 p.m. Saturday a Seabrook police cruiser crashed into another vehicle. Police say the women fled north at speeds that reached 100 miles per hour. They were captured after their vehicle crashed in Portsmouth.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has raised $15.1 million in its flagship annual appeal, the same as the previous year. Church officials said Monday that they were pleased because the money was raised during a recession, and the total number of individuals who contributed was up slightly.
Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems- the latest in a string of embarrassing safety problems at the world's largest automaker. Company President Akio Toyoda made the recall announcement today at a press conference. Toyoda says safety for customers is "our foremost priority." Today's recall affects models that went on sale last year, including more than 130,000 in the United States. It's the latest in a string of embarrassing safety problems at the world's largest automaker.
It's the start of what's shaping up to be a very crowded campaign season in Massachusetts.On Tuesday, candidates hoping to run in the 2010 elections can pick up nomination papers from the secretary of state. All statewide offices are up for grabs, as are seats in the state Legislature and U.S. House. Already, five candidates have announced their intention to challenge incumbent Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick.
Testimony continued Monday in the trial of Nicole Chuminski, accused of setting the April 6, 2008 South Boston fire that killed her ex-girlfriend's two daughters, ages 3 and 14. On Monday, an acquaintance of Chuminski testified that she showed up at his apartment shortly before the fire and complained bitterly that Anna Reisopolous had humiliated her by stealing a pocketbook at a family wedding they had attended together.
Congressman John Murtha has died. The Pennsylvania Democrat was the first combat veteran of the Vietnam War to be elected to Congress. He wielded considerable clout for two decades when he served as the ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee that oversees the Pentagon.
The increasing number of police officers and supervisors retiring from the jobis beginning to concern some cities and towns. The Boston Globe reports there has been a jump in retirements from police force ranks, amid fears of proposed changes to the state pension systemand the reduction of a generous bonus program
U.S. victims of clergy sex abuse and a group that tracks pedophile priests are calling on local Roman Catholic leaders and the Irish government to publicly detail known connections between the clergy abuse scandals in the U.S. and Ireland.
President George W. Bush, center, poses with President-elect Barack Obama, and former presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, left, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, right, in the Oval Office of the White House (AP)
The current president, his successor and their three living predecessors have wrapped up a White House lunch that is said to have included some valuable advice. That's part of what Barack Obama was hoping to gain from the meeting with President GeorgeW. Bush, Bush's father, and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
People crowd the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington (AP)
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