» v Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation May 22, 2006 Via hand delivery on May 22, 2006 Honorable Michelle L. Phillips Administrative Law Judge State of New York Department of Public Service Three Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12223-1350 Re: Cases 05-E-0934 and 05-G-0935 Public Statement Hearings Regarding the Terms of a Joint Proposal Judge Phillips: As requested, please find attached affidavits of publication regarding the notice of public statement hearings on the terms of a Joint Proposal concerning Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation's electric and gas rates for the next three years. The affidavits attached include clippings from the Poughkeepsie Journal on May 13lh, Kingston Daily Freeman on May 13^ and 17th, and Catskill Daily Mail on May 13th and 17 . Additionally, I am enclosing a clipping from the Times Herald Record on May 17l , but have not received an affidavit for that publication at this time. Sincerely, MM Michael L. Mosher Asst. 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Nation/World 2,3 Section • PSE stocks. 4 Business 5, Saturday, May c13, 2006 ignored NSA pliione records req •^*: "This is the largest and m6st gy KATHERINE SHRADER V vast intrusion $ civil liberties Associated Press , f;f Telephone qarriei-'se&GE cited privacy coi|cerns we've ever seen'in the United BellSouth Corp.' complied with States," said New Jersey, attor^ fcany iA the fall of 2001 seeking matiori oil mil-' • "It's- been briefed to the the request to turn over phone nay Bruce Afran, who sued ^naunicaliona giant i Qwest access to the phone records of lions of Ajneri- i ppropriate members of Con- records shortly after Sept. 11, with attorney Carl Mayer in refused ta providp't^ei gOvern- Qwest custqmers,- \yith neither cans' everyday gress," Hayden told reporters 2001, USA Today first reported federal district court in Man- nlent with: access tp. telephone, a wsirrant nor approval from a telephone calls. outside a Senate office. "The on Thursday. hattan, where Verizon is head- records' of its; IS? rnitlioit: pua-' specialr court established to On Friday, only purpose of the agency's Verizon feces its first lawsuit tomers after decidyigt •' ihs handle surveillance matters. CIA director activities is to preserve the quartered- nominee that claims the phone carrier Qwest, the No. 4 U.S. local request, -,: „violated ,. -privacy - ]$$, 4 '"Mr. Nacchio concluded that i lecurity and the liberty of the lawyer for f former company .^ sts ^^^ the ^ Michael Hay- American people. And I think violated privacy laws for giving phone company, serves cus- executive said Jnday..Fp^aseo-,rvacy-.^equirein^ts of ^ den defended ve|ve done that." phone records to the National tomers in 14 Western states. pnct day, tfW fornjeipNatienaL as lawful the Security Agency for a secret Based in Denver, Qwest Com- Xelecommunications Act," Nacchio Nacchio told Qwest officials Security Agehcj?'.? director secret surveil- surveillance program. munications International Inc. attorney Herbert J. Stern said o | refuse the NSA requests, defended ,the spy agency's activ- lance pro- The lawsuit filed Friday asks has come under fire over crim- from his Newark, N.J., office. vMch kept coming until Nac- : grams he oversaw as NSA head the court to stop Verizon from inal and ethical allegations. ities.'v,;'^ I- -' A-: 1' -i •' . '•' The Bush administration is from 1999 to 2005, but he ;hi|0 left the company in June In a written 'ftalementi! the turning over any more records Nacchio himself is under feder- facing new questions about civil declined to comment on the 2002, his lawyer said. attorhey'for. forme£ Qwest PEO to the NSA without a warrant al indictment on insider-trading liberties after the disclosure phone-calls database or specific In contrast, AT&T Corp., Ver- Joseph Nacpluo, said the gov-. or consent of the subscriber. charges. ernmient approached' the corn-; that the NSA collected infor- operations. zon Communications Inc. and 9 states cited Pipeline blast for subpar teach|r?qi|aiily kills up to 200 WASHINGTON CAP) - ILADO, Nigeria (AP) - Not a single, state will have a. Gasoline gushing from a rup- highly • qualified teacher in- tured pipeline exploded Fri- evjery* core i class this school day as villagers scavenged for year as) promised by President, fuel, setting off an inferno Bush'sr education law.! Nine , that killed up to 200 and left states along with the District, criarred bodies scattered of GplumbijEf, and Fiierto Rico,< around trie site in triis oil-ricri face penalties. " - ': country of mostly poor peo- The Education? Department- ple. 4 on Friday brdered every state Grim-faced rescue workers tp explain how it, will have 100 swung corpses into- a mass percent of it? core. teachers grave as dozens of otrier qualified — belate<Jly ^T in the scorcried bodies awaited col- 2066-07 school yea^. ; lection. It appeared some vic- •' tii the meantime, some tims tried to flee trie unfold- states face the loss of federal ing disaster only to be over- aid beQause, they didn't ihake- taken by flames spreading enough effort to coniply on across trie fuel slick. time, officials Said. • r' . .AP photo Trie stark outlines of wriite I,: They "aria, iUaskai Delaware, Iraqi Sitfitd^orshipperi take part in the Friday prayers in RaghdacTs S liite district of Sadr city on Friday. skeletons lay against a beacri Idaho,'lowai Minnesota; Mon- charred black by f Otrier tana, Nebraska^ Npr,th, Oarolk. bodies floated t^ngside ,': v ' ' AP photo na aini Washington, plus the dozens of plastic jerrycans in People pray "nlar the gas pipeline that exploded ^t the ! district of. Columbia and Iraqi military units clash arian trie nearby water? if trie Puerto Ricof ?» •''• -- • waterside village'of Ilado, ma^" u£,<)^]Su i'spLf'' "S. Foyr soldiers were Coastal mangrove sy p. Trie abpu.t;2S miles front Lagos* ^ "At soma poinj; tji^e^wa^, .Ji jerrycans', which • had con- liori 1. , i^^t&Q I^qf ani . '•' iU left one soldie^ kil jid three vy#^Kw iedj police saii U.S.- Nigeria, Friday. suspecM f4-littl^ tit 'of iiotion"' and- 'oi^;,qViTO^''<waa'- .Sri<Ey/: raising questions ' military officials ptit the casualty figure at one tained pilfered gas, were twist- thai} 'This ,tod'' shall pass/" ^bout'^evt^.S.-trained^ force's ability to maintain dead and 12 woun- ed, ' ^ , , ., : ed by the heat of trie explo- play "-was suspected. Trie FBI said ; Henry Johnson; the control '&% a tifte>wiien sectarian and ethnic ten- According to the U.,S. and Iraqi accounts, sion. often gets involved in criminal assistant secretaryr ovep ele- • sibna aje:rimriflighi^^^''': :»''V,'::J. •; • ';,'&• the wpurided we^ _ -,-ihed w the US-,'military hos- More trian 1,000 people in investigations abroad wrien mentary and secondary- edu-' * Tie'^ about 45 ririles;. pital in Baladl ide said that as the Kurdish sol- Nigeria,, Africa's oil giant, Americari4 are . involved or ' cation, "Welli th^ day of reck-1 north of BsighdadJ Dlristrates the command and diers drove toftle qospital, they fired weapons to riave died in recent years r wrier* asked by trie riost coun- oning r is. here, arid it's nQt; control problem^ facing the new Iraqi army, which clear the way, aid one Iraqi Shiite civilian was wrien fuel triey were pilfering try. going tO pass,'' . Ji;^ ?;<,:( •. ; the Ajnerican^ tope Can take over security in killed. from pipelines caught fire — Police arid rescue workers from another Iraqi unit based in J Department officials' would niost of the coimitey by the end of the year. It also Shiite soldiers and officials said it would like- said villagers were collecting Balad rushed to ha scene, and the Kurds decided not'say hoW'much; aid could shows that divisjon^ within the military mirror ly happen again. trie gusriing gas when the fuel thoseof Iraqi gda^fy at large. ; , to take their woun.cjed elsewhere, Iraqi police said "Because this thing has hap- be - withheld from states to ignited, and Lagos Police The trouble started-when a roadside bomb Iraqi troops triejd |o stop them and shots were force 9q!iipl||hce-,'; But;;Johnl; pened many times before, we Commissioner Emmanuel struck an Ira^l army convoy* wh|ch jwlice said was fired, killing one Shiite soldier, Iraqi police said pdn said, * "in sonle cases, tribugrit it would be a deter- Adebayo said 150 to 200 peo- rent, but apparently it wasn't we're ' talking '.about large ple died. The Red Cross had enougri deterrent for triese aniounts of naoriey." "v < < • , said it was treating survivors, States often fell short people wrio died," said Lagos Ru§l| iftai send Guard troops to Mfexican border State Health Commissioner but no live victims were seen.