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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
State of Montana PSC Approves NW Energy’s $870M
Purchase of PPL’s Hydroelectric Dams (Montana Standard, Butte)
NOAA
Fisheries Releases Pacific Northwest Hatchery Management Plan (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
U-S FCC Chief: Internet Speed Critical in Broadband
Competition (Reuters)
Why Twitter’s Users Are in Open Revolt (Washington
Post)
Environmentalists’ Campaign Spending on Midterms to
See Huge Jump This Year (Washington Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- State of Montana PSC Approves NW Energy’s $870M Purchase of PPL’s Hydroelectric Dams
- Montana Coal Mine Deal Aims to Boost Asian Exports
- Phone Scammers Continue to Target Grays Harbor PUD Customers
- NASA: Power Grid May Be at Risk - A Solar Storm Could Wreak Economic Havoc
- Moody's Report Sees Incumbents Retaining Transmission Bidding Advantage
- NOAA Fisheries Releases Pacific Northwest Hatchery Management Plan
- Oregon, Washington State Oil Train Spill Plans Don't Protect Endangered Salmon, Environmental Groups Allege
- Oregon: Fish & Wildlife Director Elicker Will Step Down - To Take a Federal Fisheries Job
- Michigan: Advocate for Birds Wants Safer Wind Turbines
- Survey: Midwesterners Not Buying ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’
- Oregon Energy Trust Recycles Refrigerators for Needy
- Tech Giants Embrace the Smart Home, but Consumers Remain Skeptical
- Nest Updates Its Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detector
- U-S FCC Chief: Internet Speed Critical in Broadband Competition
- Google Fiber May Come to Phoenix, Cox Customers Receive 100% Coincidental Speed Boost
- APPA to FCC: Cities Should Have the Option of Creating Their Own Broadband Services
- Op/Ed: FCC Should Listen to Tech-Savvy Seattle & Preserve Open Internet
- Utah Broadband Project Releases Report on Home Internet Usage
- Tribal Libraries Lack Broadband Access
- The Internet Won’t Really Slow Down on ‘Internet Slowdown Day’
- Why Twitter’s Users Are in Open Revolt
- Pay for Play - Court Rules for Yelp in Suit over Online Ratings
- How to Really Stop Checking Your Email Constantly
- Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
- Environmentalists’ Campaign Spending on Midterms to See Huge Jump This Year
- Op/Ed: Roosevelts to the Rescue
- Education: Washington State Justices Weigh Contempt, Sanctions against Legislature
- Disaster Declaration Clears Way for Loans for Eastern Washington Windstorm Victims
- Washington State's Legal Pot Market Budding Slowly
- Small Tract of Northwest Wine-Growing Soil Attracting Big Outside Investment
- Seattle No. 2 in U-S for Tech Growth, Says New Report
- Seahawks Trounce the Packers to Begin Their Title Defense
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ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
State of Montana PSC Approves NW Energy’s $870M Purchase
of PPL’s Hydroelectric Dams (Montana Standard, Butte)
Montana Coal Mine Deal Aims to Boost Asian Exports
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Phone Scammers Continue to Target Grays Harbor
PUD Customers (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
NASA: Power Grid May Be at Risk - A Solar Storm
Could Wreak Economic Havoc (Boston Herald, MA)
Moody's Report Sees Incumbents Retaining
Transmission Bidding Advantage (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
NOAA
Fisheries Releases Pacific Northwest Hatchery Management Plan (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Oregon,
Washington State Oil Train Spill Plans Don't Protect Endangered Salmon,
Environmental Groups Allege (Oregonian, Portland)
Oregon: Fish & Wildlife Director Elicker Will
Step Down - To Take a Federal Fisheries Job (Medford Mail Tribune, OR)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Survey:
Midwesterners Not Buying ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’ (Midwest Energy News)
Michigan: Advocate for Birds Wants Safer Wind
Turbines (Huron Daily Tribune, MI)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Oregon
Energy Trust Recycles Refrigerators for Needy (KGW-TV,
Portland, OR)
Tech
Giants Embrace the Smart Home, but Consumers Remain Skeptical (NY Times)
Nest
Updates Its Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detector (Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
U-S FCC Chief: Internet Speed Critical in Broadband
Competition (Reuters)
Google Fiber May Come to Phoenix, Cox Customers
Receive 100% Coincidental Speed Boost (Consumerist)
APPA to FCC: Cities Should Have the Option of
Creating Their Own Broadband Services (American Public Power Association)
Op/Ed: FCC Should Listen to Tech-Savvy Seattle &
Preserve Open Internet (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Utah Broadband Project Releases Report on Home
Internet Usage (Utah Policy)
Tribal Libraries Lack Broadband Access (The Daily
Yonder)
The Internet Won’t Really Slow Down on ‘Internet
Slowdown Day’ (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Why Twitter’s Users Are in Open Revolt (Washington
Post)
Pay for Play - Court Rules for Yelp in Suit over
Online Ratings (Associated Press)
How to Really Stop Checking Your Email Constantly
(Mashable)
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds (Consumerist)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Environmentalists’ Campaign Spending on Midterms to
See Huge Jump This Year (Washington Post)
Op/Ed: Roosevelts to the Rescue (NY Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Education: Washington State Justices Weigh Contempt, Sanctions against Legislature
(Northwest News Network)
Disaster Declaration
Clears Way for Loans for Eastern Washington Windstorm Victims (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
Washington State's Legal Pot Market Budding Slowly (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Small Tract of
Northwest Wine-Growing Soil Attracting Big Outside Investment (Northwest Public
Radio)
Seattle No. 2 in U-S
for Tech Growth, Says New Report (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Seahawks Trounce the Packers to Begin Their Title
Defense (NY Times)
DIVERSIONS
Comic
Joan Rivers Dead at 81
Whoa!
Fisherman Catches Giant Shrimp
Munching
Green to Save Green: City of Coeur d'Alene Says 'There's GOAT to Be a Better
Way!'
Meet
'Dreadnoughtus,' A Rare, Enormous Animal
SONG OF THE DAY
Alan
Silvestri - Forrest Gump Theme
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