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Deerfield River
NEGT During the Deerfield system's standard federal re-licensing (covering all but Bear Swamp and Fife Brook, which hold a separate license), millions of dollars were committed for environmental enhancements, including funds for fish passage facilities, education projects and conservation easements on approximately 18,000 acres of land. Working with groups such as the Appalachian Mountain Club, U.S. National Park Service and the Conservation Law Foundation, the system established strategic goals as part of the federal re-licensing process that balance environmental protection, recreational use and electricity generation.

http://www.negt.com/HydroJointRelease.pdf Purchase Press Release for TransCanada and USGen New England] Deerfield facilities.

Engineer citing work on Deerfield FERC license 8 dams, seven powerhouses relicensed; excludes Bear Swamp and __ dam.

Panel to study deal for dams By SUSAN SMALLHEER - Southern Vermont Bureau LInk to commission / panel to purchase dams in VT, 2003.

Living on Earth Broadcast Transcript October 14, 1994

MULLINS: Still, deep rifts will remain over Federal mandates and property rights. Republicans say unless they get a working majority, or the Democrats have a change of heart, envvironmental bills will continue to languish.

Some New England hydroelectic dams could become a model for balancing energy and environmental concerns. A power company will make environmental improvements around the dams, and in exchange, activists won't challenge its bid to renew the dams' license. From member station WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts, Martha Guild has details.

GUILD: The agreement requires The New England Power Company to build fish passageways on 4 of the 8 dams on the Deerfield River, In an effort to restore the Atlantic salmon population. It also calls on New England Power to give anglers and whitewater boaters more access to the 65 mile stretch of water in Vermont and Massachusetts. Margaret Bowman, of American Rivers, says the accord is significant because Power Company officials have agreed to curtail profits for the sake of the environment.

BOWMAN: In exchange for the fundamental benefits they're receiving from the river in terms of electrical production, they will in turn give something back to the river.

GUILD: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is set to re-licence the dams on the Deerfield River for another 40 years. American Rivers is currently negotiating similar agreements with power companies and dam operators across the country. More than 200 hydroelectric dams are up for re-licensing this year. For Living On Earth, I'm Martha Guild.

MULLINS: And that's this week's Living On Earth news. I'm Lisa Mullins.

Aquifer, Charlemont MA study

USA McNulty April 27, 2007

 * April 27, 2007 - Paul McNulty testifies in private meeting with United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary Committee]] that he was not informed until after his February 6, 2007 public testimony to the committee, that there was extensive White House involvement in former Karl Rove aide Timothy Griffin’s appointment as interim attorney for Eastern District of Arkansas, nor did he know the extent of Kyle Sampsonof Mr. Sampson’s almost year-long work to compile a dismissal list.

Related articles
For a detailed chronology of events, see: Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy timeline For details about individual dismissed attorneys, ''see:  Dismissed U.S. attorneys summary For access to released documents, email, and hearing transcripts,  see: Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy documents For descriptions of some of the congressional hearings,  ''see: Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy hearings

New England town
A draft revision, toning down some of the emphasis of the present intro as ofJanuary 15, 2007


 * The New England town is the primary form of local government in each of the six New England states. An institution particular to New England that does not have direct counterpart in most other U.S. states, New England towns are conceptually similar to civil townships in that they were originally set up so that all of a state's territory would be completely encompassed covered by them. (The states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have some aspects of local municipal organization with similarities to the New England town.)  New England towns usually have greater importance in local government and civic identity than civil townships have in most of the states where the latter exist.  New England towns are corporate bodies established by the legislature, and have all the powers of self government that a city in other states would typically have.  In addition, virtually all statutory  municipalities in New England are based on the town model; exceptional are statutory forms based on the concept of a compact populated place, such as a statutory village or statutory borough.  New England is the only region of the country where this is the case.  Because virtually all residents live within the boundaries of an incorporated municipality, county government in New England is typically weak or nonexistent, because there are no residents in the county that are outside of a municipality, seeking county governmental action for  local services.  The towns are of much greater importance than the counties are.

Samuel Hoar source obit
Source: http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2005/spring/memoriam_main.php Text: Samuel Hoar '54 of Essex, Mass., died Sept. 13, 2004. He was a partner and led one of the nation's first environmental law groups at Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in Boston. He fought to save New Hampshire's Franconia Notch and Old Man of the Mountain from highway extension plans and headed a legal battle to clean up Boston Harbor. In his late 60s, he began a new career in alternative dispute resolution as a principal at Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services. He also served as a director of the Conservation Law Foundation. He briefly worked as an assistant U.S. attorney, prosecuting tax cases. He was an Essex town selectman and moderator and served on the town's Finance Committee, Zoning Board and Conservation Commission.

George Frisbie Hoar
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Hoar, George F. The charge against President Grant and Attorney General Hoar of packing the Supreme Court of the United States, to secure the reversal of the legal tender decision, by the appointment of judges Bradley and Strong, refuted. Letter to the Boston Herald. Worcester, MA 1896 8vo. 45, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f. Good. Stapled; in original printed wrappers. Front wrapper with some light soiling. Presentation stamp on front wrapper. A few spots with pencilled notations. Hoar, George F. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Grant's attorney general, is here vindicated by his brother, Sen. George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, of conspiring to pack the Supreme Court. USD 37.50 > other currencies ordernr.: (2326) bookseller: SessaBks (USA)

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Hoar geneology
Sewell Genology includes many colonial families, Adams, Hoar, Quincy, Sherman

Roger Sherman Children
By first wife: Elizabeth Hartwell Sherman ?-1760 Source: http://www.colonialhall.com/sherman/shermanElizabeth.php Their children were John, William, Isaac, Chloe, Oliver, Chloe, and Elizabeth. Chloe (the first), and Oliver died in infancy.

Footnote: Source: Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence, by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, A.B. (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 1997). Orignaly Published in 1912 as volume 3 of The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons). Pages 92-93. (Some minor spelling changes may have been made.)

By second wife: Rebecca Minot Prescott Sherman 1743-1793 http://www.colonialhall.com/sherman/shermanRebecca.php Rebecca Prescott Sherman became the mother of eight children, all but one of whom arrived at the age of maturity. Their names were as follows: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Roger, Mehitable, Oliver, Martha, and Sarah. Of these seven children, one daughter became the mother of United States Senator Hoar; another the mother of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator; still another the mother of the Honorable William M. Evarts. These are but a few of the many eminent descendants of this illustrious woman.*

Footnote: Source: Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence, by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, A.B. (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 1997). Orignaly Published in 1912 as volume 3 of The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons). Pages 93-98. (Some minor spelling changes may have been made.)

== * April 27, 2007 - Paul McNulty testifies in private meeting with United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary Committee]] that he was not informed until after his February 6, 2007 public testimony to the committee, that there was extensive White House involvement in former Karl Rove aide Timothy Griffin’s appointment as interim attorney for Eastern District of Arkansas, nor did he know the extent of Kyle Sampsonof Mr. Sampson’s almost year-long work to compile a dismissal list.

White House influence on creation of the dismissal list, until after his February 6, 2007 public testimony to the commiittee.

Donald P. Lay, 80, Federal Judge

 * Hevesi, Dennis. Donald P. Lay, 80, Federal Judge Notable in Rights Cases, Dies The New York Times, May 2, 2007. Retreived May 2, 2007.

20th Century US Southern History

 * Cohen, Pataricia. Interpreting Some Overlooked Stories From the South The New York Times' May 2, 2007. Retreived May 2, 2007.


 * Jason Sokol, 29, “There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975” (Alfred A. Knopf)
 * Joseph Crespino, 35, “In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution” (Princeton University Press) (2007)
 * Mathew D. Lassiter, 36, “The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South” (Princeton) (2006)
 * Kevin M. Kruse, “White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism” (Princeton), (2005
 * Mr. Lassiter’s and Mr. Crespino’s latest project is editing a book titled “The End of Southern History.”)

USC
Canditates definitions .

USA
McNulty narrative and citation: Greenburg, Jan Crawford. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=2983066 Exclusive: DOJ Official Ignored White House. Testimony contradicted Gonzales in U.S. Attorney matter, sparked controversy. Justice spokesman: Ganzales 'extremely upset' by McNulty testimony.] ABC News March 26, 2007. McNulty Quote: have no plans to step down," McNulty said. "I intend to cooperate with the Committee in anyway they choose."

Horton, Scott. The McNulty-Rove Meeting Harpers Magazine May 4, 2007 source: This morning the McClatchy Newspapers report in greater detail on a meeting between Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty and Karl Rove at the White House which focused on an appearance of the number three at Justice—William E. Moschella—to answer queries about the sacking of U.S. attorneys.

According to a congressional aide, McNulty said he attended a White House meeting with Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, and other officials on March 5, the day before McNulty's deputy William Moschella was to testify to Congress about the firings. White House officials told the Justice Department group that they needed to agree on clear reasons why each prosecutor was fired and explain them to Congress, McNulty said, according to the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the transcript of McNulty's interview hasn't been made public.

McNulty said that White House officials never revealed during the meeting that they'd been discussing plans to replace some prosecutors with Gonzales aides, the congressional aide said. McNulty recalled feeling disturbed and concerned when he found out days later that the White House had been involved, the congressional aide said. McNulty considered the extent of White House coordination to be "extremely problematic."

“Extremely problematic” in this case is a code word for “grossly improper.” Moschella went to the hill the next day and made a series of statements which were in the main highly misleading—and some which were later revealed as outright falsehoods. But the whole account provided by McNulty is suspicious. He’s meeting with Rove to agree on a cover story that another official will be sent to the hill to relay. . . and then he claims that he was “disturbed” when he finds out the White House is involved at some later point? Is that really even marginally credible at this point? McNulty was a sort of stationmaster in this entire process, he knew of the core role played by Sampson and Goodling, and he certainly also knew about the secret memorandum empowering them as the Lord-High Executioners for Karl Rove. The fact of the meeting with Rove and the need to “coordinate” answers with him is self-explanatory in this regard. Moreover, McNulty’s claims of distance from the affair become progressively more stretched when we consider the critical role played by his chief of staff, Michael Elston, in attempting to pressure all the U.S. attorneys into silence in the face of a growing probe.

McNulty’s characterizations of his role are simply not credible. He’s escaping fire in this regards only because they are marginally less incredible than those of so many others—starting with Alberto Gonzales himself.

McNulty
According to an email sent by Miers to McNulty, ABC newsl, sources said Miers had advised McNulty to say that the administration should take the firm position that it would not comment on personnel issues. It was subsequently reported that Gonzales was furious that his testimony of January 18, 2007 had been contradicted, and that the influence of the White House had been disclosed.

Griffin
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200406/green

McClatchy: I could stay through 2009. Feb 2007 item.

Mukasey edit
On October 2, 2007 Mukasey's written response to a pre-hearing Senate Judiciary Committee questionaire was received by the committee, and published. Leahy replied the next day by letter proposing a hearing date of October 16, 2007, and outlined major issues he intends to see discussed in the hearing itself, and commitments he desires from the nominee.

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