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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Unofficial Mason County/State Election Results
(Energy News Digest)
Washington State PUD Election Results (Unofficial,
Courtesy of Washington PUD Association)
Change in the Air for Washington: Colder (Olympian, WA)
Oregon Voters Say No to Gill Net Ban (Daily
Astorian, OR)
Michigan
Rejects Increase to Renewable Energy Requirement (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- UPDATE – Electricity Restored at 11:41 AM to Mason County PUD 3 Customers in the Victor Area
- How Europe is Cashing in on Smart Meters as the U-S Lags
- After Sandy: Praise for Teamwork
- Great, Thanks - California Gets 200 EV Charging Stations in Energy Manipulation Settlement
- Laos Breaks Ground for Controversial Mekong Dam
- Why India Loves a Good Electrician
- Oregon Voters Say No to Gill Net Ban
- California - Drain the Reservoir? Hetch Hetchy Measure Swamped by Voters
- Michigan Rejects Increase to Renewable Energy Requirement
- U-S Finalizes Steep Tariffs on China's Solar Panels
- Pacific Northwest Sets Ambitious Goals for Energy Efficiency
- Geothermal Designs Arise as a Stormproof Resource
- WSU Computer Model Will Help Climate Change Predictions
- California's First Auction of Greenhouse-Gas Credits Nears
- What We Can Learn from the Bay Area’s Sea Rise
- University Of Oregon’s Sustainable Cities Program Seeks Next City Partner
- California Voters Approve Measure to Fund Green Building Retrofits
- AT&T to Expand Wireless, Wired Broadband Reach
- Here’s AT&T’s $14B Plan to Kill Its Copper Network and Leave Rural America Behind
- Unofficial Mason County/State Election Results
- Washington State PUD Election Results
- Two of Three Victorious Mason Commissioners Unaffiliated With Parties
- Updated Legislative District 35 (Unofficial) Results
- Inslee Launches Washington State Gubernatorial Transition Team
- Puerto Rico Wants to Become the 51st State of the US
- Change in the Air for Washington: Colder
- 4.2 Earthquake Off Oregon Coast
WORD OF THE DAY
Tatterdemalion
• \tat-der-duh-MAIL-ee-un\ • Noun - A person dressed in ragged clothing:
ragamuffin.
After
a yearlong road trip with the presidential candidate, the entire press corps
looked like a tribe of tatterdemalions, their Armani suits frayed, collars
worn, hair mussed due to so many airport haircuts. “Please sir, may we have
some more pithy quotes?” The example sentence then goes on from there,
wallowing in a Dickensian sewer of self-loathing. Must…stop….before…I….go….on….
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
UPDATE – Electricity Restored at 11:41 AM to Mason
County PUD 3 Customers in the Victor Area (Mason County PUD No. 3)
How Europe is Cashing in on Smart Meters as the U-S
Lags (Forbes Magazine)
After Sandy: Praise for Teamwork (Electric Co-op
Today)
Great, Thanks - California Gets 200 EV Charging
Stations in Energy Manipulation Settlement (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Laos Breaks Ground for Controversial Mekong Dam (NY
Times)
Why India Loves a Good Electrician (British
Broadcasting Corporation)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Oregon Voters Say No to Gill Net Ban (Daily
Astorian, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
California
- Drain the Reservoir? Hetch Hetchy Measure Swamped by Voters (SF Chronicle)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Michigan
Rejects Increase to Renewable Energy Requirement (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
U-S
Finalizes Steep Tariffs on China's Solar Panels (USA
Today)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Pacific Northwest Sets Ambitious Goals for Energy
Efficiency (American Public Power Association)
Geothermal Designs Arise as a Stormproof Resource (NY
Times)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
WSU
Computer Model Will Help Climate Change Predictions (Northwest Public Radio)
California's
First Auction of Greenhouse-Gas Credits Nears (Los Angeles Times, CA)
What
We Can Learn from the Bay Area’s Sea Rise (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
University
Of Oregon’s Sustainable Cities Program Seeks Next City Partner (Sustainable Business Oregon)
California
Voters Approve Measure to Fund Green Building Retrofits (Grist Online)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AT&T to Expand Wireless, Wired Broadband Reach (USA
Today)
Here’s AT&T’s $14B Plan to Kill Its Copper
Network and Leave Rural America Behind (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Unofficial Mason County/State Election Results (Energy
News Digest)
Washington State PUD Election Results (Unofficial,
Courtesy of Washington PUD Association)
Two of Three Victorious Mason Commissioners
Unaffiliated With Parties (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton,
WA)
Updated Legislative District 35 (Unofficial)
Results (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Inslee Launches Washington State Gubernatorial
Transition Team (KING-TV, Seattle)
Puerto Rico Wants To Become the 51st State of the US
(British Broadcasting Company)
GENERAL NEWS
Change in the Air for Washington: Colder (Olympian, WA)
4.2 Earthquake Off Oregon Coast (Associated Press)
DIVERSIONS
Watch a Vodka Bottle Inside a Liquor Store
Accidentally Catch on Fire from Sunlight
Victoria's Outdoor Throne Crowned as Best Toilet in
Canada
Monarch Butterfly Reaches Texas via Southwest (Associated
Press)
SONG OF THE DAY
Maureen
McGovern - The Morning After
