Midday Report, August 8, 2006

Vermont’s Auditor of Accounts questions record-keeping in the Medicaid program; all three delegates to Congress make home state appearances; industrial recruiters in Rutland say the city’s fiscal crisis is not affecting their work; officials in some Vermont towns are doing more than just swatting at the bumper crop of mosquitoes that have descended on the state during this rainy summer; in Montreal, city officials are trying to cut down on the spray-painting of graffiti by banning the sale of spray paint to minors.