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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Feds: New Move To Break Columbia River Salmon
Impasse (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Utility Chiefs Urge Equal Tax Rates on Dividends,
Capital Gains in ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal (Washington Post)
Solar
Installations Surge on Lower Costs & Government Support (NY Times)
Gmail, Other Google Services Suffer Monday Service
Interruptions (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Sheriff: Heroes Stepped Up During Deadly Clackamas
Mall Shooting (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Utility Chiefs Urge Equal Tax Rates on Dividends, Capital Gains in ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal
- Grant County PUD Raises Electricity Rates by Six Percent in 2013
- Clallam Public Utility District Budget Sees Increasing Rates
- Oregon - Clatskanie PUD Collects Food
- Franklin PUD Swears In Commissioner, District 3
- Group Probes Delayed Power Restoration Post Hurricane Sandy
- Kentucky - Electric Cooperative Immune from Suit for Death after Ice Storm
- Feds: New Move To Break Columbia River Salmon Impasse
- Arctic Snowy Owls Return to Western Washington
- Gophers dig holes in JBLM’s future
- Editorial - Large-Scale Cooperation for Small Fish Project
- Solar Installations Surge on Lower Costs & Government Support
- Dryer Balls - Do They Really Save Energy?
- How Green is That Christmas Tree?
- Gmail, Other Google Services Suffer Monday Service Interruptions
- Sprint Reportedly in Talks to Take Over Clearwire
- FCC Approves Dish Network Plans for Mobile Broadband
- Yahoo Updates Email to Take on Gmail
- Telx to Open Hillsboro Data Center
- FCC Asks for Corrections to the National Broadband Map
- Rational Broadband Investment: Why the FCC’s New Task Force is a Good Step Forward
- Sheriff: Heroes Stepped Up During Deadly Clackamas Mall Shooting
- Police: Oregon Mall Shooter Didn’t Know Two He Killed
- Washington State Governor Readies Big Transportation Proposal
- Administration Weighs Legal Action against States that Legalized Marijuana Use
- Statistically, It Could Snow on Christmas
WORD OF THE DAY
Intersperse
• \in-ter-SPERSS\ • verb - 1: to place something at intervals in or among
2:
to insert at intervals among other things
The
sideshow barker was putting his all into a chance for his potential customers
to grab silver dollars hidden in a huge vat of viscous, half formed Jell-O. And
to quell the more enthusiastic fishers for the loot, he made sure to let them
know that he had interspersed the heaving mass with a few fish-hooks. (now that
is dark)
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Utility Chiefs Urge Equal Tax Rates on Dividends,
Capital Gains in ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal (Washington Post)
Grant County PUD Raises Electricity Rates by Six Percent
in 2013 (iFiber One News, Ephrata, WA)
Clallam Public Utility District Budget Sees
Increasing Rates (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Oregon - Clatskanie PUD Collects Food (Northwest
Public Power Association)
Franklin PUD Swears In Commissioner, District 3
(Franklin County PUD)
Group Probes Delayed Power Restoration Post Hurricane
Sandy (National Public Radio)
Kentucky - Electric Cooperative Immune from Suit for
Death after Ice Storm (Risk & Insurance)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Feds: New Move To Break Columbia River Salmon
Impasse (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Arctic Snowy Owls Return to Western Washington (KING-TV, Seattle)
Gophers dig holes in JBLM’s future (KCPQ-TV, Seattle/Tacoma, WA)
Editorial - Large-Scale Cooperation for Small
Fish Project (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Solar
Installations Surge on Lower Costs & Government Support (NY Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Dryer Balls - Do They Really Save Energy? (Conduit)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
How
Green is That Christmas Tree? (Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Gmail, Other Google Services Suffer Monday Service
Interruptions (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Sprint Reportedly in Talks to Take Over Clearwire (Seattle
Times)
FCC Approves Dish Network Plans for Mobile
Broadband (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/morning_call/2012/12/fcc-approves-dish-network-plans-for.html
Yahoo Updates Email to Take on Gmail (Associated
Press)
Telx to Open Hillsboro Data Center (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
FCC Asks for Corrections to the National Broadband
Map Database - Ensure Areas Are Correctly Labeled As Served Or Unserved (Lexology)
Rational Broadband Investment: Why the FCC’s New
Task Force is a Good Step Forward (Fierce Telecom)
GENERAL NEWS
Sheriff: Heroes Stepped Up During Deadly Clackamas Mall
Shooting (KOMO-TV, Seattle)
Police: Oregon Mall Shooter Didn’t Know Two He
Killed (Associated Press)
Washington State Governor Readies Big
Transportation Proposal (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA)
Administration Weighs Legal Action against States that
Legalized Marijuana Use (NY Times)
Statistically, It Could Snow on Christmas (KIRO
Broadcasting, Seattle)
DIVERSIONS
Indian Sitar Virtuoso, Beatles Mentor Ravi Shankar Dies
At 92
Zeitgeist 2012: What Piqued Your Curiosity This
Year?
‘Heart,’ Quincy Jones headed to Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Beatles - Within You Without You
