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June 9, 2009 Reported By: Josie Huang Governor John Baldacci plans to sign a bill tomorrow that's aimed at giving the state's DirigoChoice health insurance program much-needed financial stability. To pay for Dirigo, the state charges health insurers a fee each year, which invariably leads to fights over how much the fee should be. Dirigo supporters say the bill to keep the fee fixed from year to year will avoid the expensive legal battles and bad blood. "The Number one thing that it does is it makes the funding source predictable and stable," says David Farmer, spokesman for the governor. Farmer tried to reassure the 9,000 people getting insurance through Dirigo, which is priced on ability to pay, and another 5,500 people who get Medicaid through the use of Dirigo dollars.

"By December 31, 2008, according to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the government of Iraq intends to have replaced the existing mandate for a multinational security force with a conventional bilateral security agreement with the United States, an agreement of the sort that Washington has with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and several other countries in the Middle East. The Security Council has always paired the annual renewal of its mandate for the multinational force with the renewal of a second mandate for the management of Iraqi oil revenues. This happens through the "Development Fund for Iraq," a kind of escrow account set up by the occupying powers after the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein reg"

"I'm particularly interested in introductions for non-experts to subjects like biology, physics and astronomy, but I thought that opening up the question as broadly as possible would make it most interesting to me and other readers, especially as a future reference-point. I am thinking of books like "Mathematics for the Million", which made math accessible to a great deal of people."

REPORTER AT LARGE about restoring small-scale hydroelectric power facilities in New York State. In the past the power of falling water was utilized but in the middle years of the century electricity generated by big utilities had become cheap to the point where small-scale hydroelectric facilities were costing more in maintenance than their productive worth, and they were abandoned. Recently the picture changed. In a subdivision of the legislation that became known as the National Energy Act of 1978, Congress decided that if someone wanted to make power at a small-scale hydroelectric facility and sell it for absorption into the regional grid, then the territorial utility would be compelled to buy the electricity, and at handsome rates conditioned by the rising price of oil. Minihydro, as it is sometimes called, would be saving oil, and in effect, would be paid by the barrel. Tells what is needed for these operations besides a waterfall or dam and about the necessary rebuilding. Tells about a number of people involved in such projects. Paul Eckhoff, his daughter Mary, and her friend, Peter Houghton work as the Chittenden Falls Hydro Power corporation. The company of Mark Quallen and Robert I. Glass is called Hydro Development Group; it has several sites in operation. At Wappingers Falls 5 engineers are going to restore a powerhouse; they call themselves Electro Ecology, Inc. Gives background of F.W.E. Stapenhorst who's been involved with large-scale hydroelectric generating in Canada and became involved in the Goodyear Lake Low-Head Hydroelectric Power Project in upstate N.Y. Tells about brothers John & Jim Dowd and their facility in Chateaugay Chasm. Keywords: Electricity; Dams; Energy Crisis; Hydroelectric Power; Houghton, Peter; Ossberger, Karl; "Hydro-Wire" (Publ.); Glass, Robert I.; National Energy Act of 1978; Quallen, Mark; Goodyear Lake Low-Head Hydroelectric Power Project; Dowd, John and Jim; Stapenhorst, F.W.E.; Eckhoff, Paul; Wappingers Falls, N.Y.; Wentworth, David; Chittenden Falls Hydro Power Corp.; Hovemeyer, William; Minihydro; Pyrites, N. Y.; Immediato, C. Sherry; Chateaugay, N.Y.; Electro Ecology, Inc.; Hydro Development Group;

"Third, we can no longer shrink from the prospect of impeachment. Impeachment would require, as John Bonifaz, constitutional attorney, author of Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush and co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, has explained, that the House pass a "resolution of inquiry or impeachment calling on the Judiciary Committee to launch an investigation into whether grounds exist for the House to exercise its constitutional power to impeach George W. Bush." If the committee found such grounds, it would draft articles of impeachment and submit them to the full House for a vote. If those articles passed, the President would be tried by the Senate. Resolutions of inquiry, such as already have been introduced by Representatives Barbara Lee and Dennis Kucinich demanding that the Administration produce key information about its decision-making, could also lead to impeachment."

"investors and employees cheered when Enron executives were convicted of conspiracy to defraud in it financial claims. Could the same indictment be made of the Bush administration's public claims that led the American people to accept the war in Iraq? Elizabeth de la Vega is a former federal prosecutor with 21 years experience in handling criminal fraud cases thinks yes. In her new book, U.S. v. Bush, a Fraud Worse than Enron, she details her legal reasoning. Written as an actual presentation to a federal Grand Jury, her legal arguments seeks an indictment of the Bush administration on one charge: "Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S. in violation of Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 371." "