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News Digest Word Cloud for September 4, 2014
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Internet Outage Hits North Olympic Peninsula &
Beyond (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
New Bull Trout Plan No Numbers Game - The
elimination of numerical goals frustrates conservation groups (Associated
Press)
Nevada
‘Gigafactory’ Brings Tesla Closer to Electric Car for the Masses (Christian
Science Monitor)
Community
Solar Program Pursued - Clark Public Utilities Customers Can Buy Shares (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Pacific Gas & Electric Plans to Appeal $1.4
Billion Penalty in Deadly Blast (Sacramento Bee,
CA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Pacific Gas & Electric Plans to Appeal $1.4 Billion Penalty in Deadly Blast
- Long-Term Repairs on Chelan PUD’s Rocky Reach Dam Agreed Upon
- Idaho Power to Build New Power Line Near Halfway
- Mason PUD 3 Considers Sale of Downtown Shelton Property
- New Bull Trout Plan No Numbers Game
- Recovery Knocks 21 Fish Species from Watch List
- New Draft Plan Provides Road Map for Pacific Northwest Sockeye Recovery
- BPA-Funded Project Aims to Make Turbines Safer for Fish
- Excavation Begins on Methow River Side Channel Restoration
- Community Solar Program Pursued - Clark Public Utilities Customers Can Buy Shares
- United Kingdom: £11 Million ($18 million U-S) for the Wind Farm That Was Not Working
- Nevada ‘Gigafactory’ Brings Tesla Closer to Electric Car for the Masses
- Electric Vehicle Sales Are Running Out of Gas
- Internet Outage Hits North Olympic Peninsula & Beyond
- Apple’s iCloud Woes Come Just as It Doubles down on the Cloud
- Twenty States Bar Cities from Building Their Own Internet - Netflix Wants the FCC to Change That
- Over 90% of Cloud Services Used in Healthcare Pose Medium to High Security Risk
- A Lot of People Don’t Like the Comcast-Time Warner Merger, But That Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Be Approved
- Co-ops: Liking, Sharing & Tweeting with Success
- Verizon Failed to Tell Two Million People It Was Using Their Personal Info for Marketing
- Eleven Reasons Email Is the Worst
- U-S Congressman Hastings Endorses Newhouse in 4th District Race
- Ken Burns: The Roosevelts’ Footprints Are Found Here & Everywhere
- Man in Custody after Mason County Explosion & Fire at Fawn Lake
- Inslee Lifts Washington State Burn Ban, Urges Caution
- Pot Issues Confront Washington State’s Legislators
- Thieves Get Away with Copper, Cut Off Power to Strip of Stores
- Game Day! Seahawks Celebrations Fill the City Ahead of Thursday’s Kickoff
- Seattle PD Sends Warning, Beefs Up Seahawks Security
Viridity
• \vuh-RIDD-ut-tee\ • Noun - 1a: the quality or state of being green b: the
color of grass or foliage 2: naïve innocence
Frog,
viridity
Kermit
bemoans his color
It
isn’t easy
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Pacific Gas & Electric Plans to Appeal $1.4 Billion
Penalty in Deadly Blast (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Long-Term Repairs on Chelan PUD’s Rocky Reach Dam
Agreed Upon (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
Idaho Power to Build New Power Line Near Halfway (Baker
City Herald, OR)
Mason PUD 3 Considers Sale of Downtown Shelton Property
(KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
FISH & WILDLIFE
New Bull Trout Plan No Numbers Game - The
elimination of numerical goals frustrates conservation groups (Associated
Press)
Recovery Knocks 21 Fish Species from Watch List (Associated
Press)
New Draft Plan Provides Road Map for Pacific
Northwest Sockeye Recovery (Coeur d’Alene Press, ID)
BPA-Funded Project Aims to Make Turbines Safer for
Fish (Bonneville Power Administration)
Excavation Begins on Methow River Side Channel
Restoration (Methow Valley News, Twisp, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Community
Solar Program Pursued - Clark Public Utilities Customers Can Buy Shares (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
United
Kingdom: £11 Million ($18 million U-S) for the Wind Farm That Was Not Working “…the
Government has failed to ‘rein in’ the amounts being demanded by wind farm
owners to turn off their turbines to stop the electricity network becoming
overloaded…” (The Telegraph, UK)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Nevada
‘Gigafactory’ Brings Tesla Closer to Electric Car for the Masses (Christian
Science Monitor)
Electric
Vehicle Sales Are Running Out of Gas (Los Angeles Times, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Internet Outage Hits North Olympic Peninsula &
Beyond (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Apple’s iCloud Woes Come Just as It Doubles down on
the Cloud (Washington Post)
Twenty States Bar Cities from Building Their Own Internet
- Netflix Wants the FCC to Change That (Washington Post)
Over 90% of Cloud Services Used in Healthcare Pose
Medium to High Security Risk (Forbes Magazine)
A Lot of People Don’t Like the Comcast-Time Warner
Merger, But That Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Be Approved (Washington Post)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Co-ops: Liking, Sharing & Tweeting with Success
(Electric Co-op Today)
Verizon Failed to Tell Two Million People It Was
Using Their Personal Info for Marketing - Now the FCC Is Making It Pay. (Washington
Post)
Eleven Reasons Email Is the Worst (Gizmodo)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
U-S Congressman Hastings Endorses Newhouse in 4th District
Race (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Ken Burns: The Roosevelts’ Footprints Are Found
Here & Everywhere (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
GENERAL NEWS
Man in Custody after Mason County Explosion &
Fire at Fawn Lake (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Inslee Lifts Washington State Burn Ban, Urges
Caution (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Pot Issues Confront Washington State’s Legislators
- Lawmakers weigh if municipalities can ban sales of legal marijuana (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Thieves Get Away with Copper, Cut Off Power to
Strip of Stores (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Game Day! Seahawks Celebrations Fill the City Ahead
of Thursday’s Kickoff (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Seattle PD Sends Warning, Beefs Up Seahawks Security
(KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Study:
Nobody Is Paying Attention on Your Conference Call
43
1/2 Socks Removed from Dog’s Stomach
Woman
Accused of Shoplifting $144 in Eye Shadow
Idaho
Professor Accidentally Shoots Himself in the Foot in Chemistry Class
SONG OF THE DAY
Blondie
- Call Me
Skye
Edwards - Call Me
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