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News Digest Word Cloud for April 10, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
U-S, Canadian Governments Study Critical Water
Treaty (Flathead Beacon, Kalispell, MT)
Washington State to Look at Last-Minute Salary
Hikes That Led to Boosted Pensions (Associated Press)
California’s
Governor Wants His State’s Carbon Market to Link with Quebec’s (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Bainbridge
Island Answers Call to Conserve Energy (Kitsap Sun,
Bremerton, WA)
Man Suspected in Fatal Mason County Hit-And-Run
Pleads Innocent (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- U-S, Canadian Governments Study Critical Water Treaty
- Portland Suspends & Fires Electrical Inspectors Accused of Brunching on the Job
- Cowlitz PUD Establishes Citizen Panel to Guide Rate Decisions
- U-S Energy Secretary Nominee Backs Natural Gas ‘Revolution’
- Ernest Moniz: Where Would He Take Energy Department?
- Ex-Regulator Says U-S Reactors Are Flawed
- Mississippi - Entergy Repaying School $1.2 Million-Plus for Years of Overbilling
- Look What Dragged In the Cat: Feline Rescued After 4 Nights atop Utility Pole in Kamloops
- California Oyster Farm Caught Up in Pipeline Politics
- Portable Wind Turbines a Versatile Alternative
- San Jose Solar Startup to Be Acquired by Largest U-S Solar Manufacturer
- Bainbridge Island Answers Call to Conserve Energy
- California’s Governor Wants His State’s Carbon Market to Link with Quebec’s
- Solar Panels Could Destroy U-S Utilities, According To U-S Utilities
- Burien Resident Claims City Doesn’t Deserve Tree City USA Status
- Google Expanding Super-Fast Internet Service to Austin, Texas
- Why AT&T’s Promise to Bring 1 Gbps to Austin is Mostly Empty
- Kansas City Slow To Connect with Google’s Super-Fast Internet
- It’s Surprisingly Inexpensive For Google to Build Its Cable-Destroying Google Fiber Network
- North Carolina - The Curious Tale of Raleigh’s Free Downtown Wi-Fi
- Fox Affiliates Exec Says Stations ‘On Board’ with Plan to Move to Pay TV amid Aereo Dispute
- Private Cloud Mania Drives Data Center Expansion, Survey Says
- Texas - Local Companies Cash in on Google Fiber Announcement
- General Motors Gives Facebook another Chance
- Washington State to Look at Last-Minute Salary Hikes That Led to Boosted Pensions
- Editorial - Spiking Public Safety Pensions Hurts Poor Kids the Most
- Washington State Senate Leader: ‘Dream Act’ Is Dead This Session
- Man Suspected in Fatal Mason County Hit-And-Run Pleads Innocent
- Washington State Worries as Boeing Pours $1 Billion into South Carolina
- Vancouver, WA Teen Found Safe after Two-Week Disappearance
- Public to Weigh In on Mason County Forest Conservation
- Former Tumwater Municipal Court Judge Could Face Jail Time after Second DUI Arrest
- Court Approves Sale of Last Core Hostess Assets
- Oregon Girls Rescue Dad by Lifting Tractor Off His Chest
WORD OF THE DAY
Campestral
• \camp-PEST-trull\ • Adjective - Of or relating to fields or open country:
rural.
After
forty years away from the windswept grasslands of northeast Montana, the family
matriarch stood among the campestral glory of her ancestral homestead, her face
aglow with the dewy freshness of a teen-aged farm girl. She had always felt
fenced in in her new home among the towering, deep green forests of western
Washington. But she knew deep down that the whispering winds through the pasture
grass of the prairie always spoke to her heart.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
U-S, Canadian Governments Study Critical Water
Treaty (Flathead Beacon, Kalispell, MT)
Portland Suspends & Fires Electrical Inspectors
Accused of Brunching on the Job (Willamette Week, Portland, OR)
Cowlitz PUD Establishes Citizen Panel to Guide
Rate Decisions (Longview Daily News, WA)
U-S Energy Secretary Nominee Backs Natural Gas ‘Revolution’
- Ernest Moniz backs increased use of natural gas (Associated Press)
Ernest Moniz: Where Would He Take Energy Department?
(Christian Science Monitor)
Ex-Regulator Says U-S Reactors Are Flawed (NY Times)
Mississippi - Entergy Repaying School $1.2 Million-Plus
for Years of Overbilling (Associated Press)
Look What Dragged In the Cat: Feline Rescued
After 4 Nights atop Utility Pole in Kamloops (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
FISH & WILDLIFE
California Oyster Farm Caught Up in Pipeline
Politics (NY Times)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Portable
Wind Turbines a Versatile Alternative (Washington State University News)
San
Jose Solar Startup to Be Acquired by Largest U-S Solar Manufacturer (San Jose
Mercury News, CA)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Bainbridge
Island Answers Call to Conserve Energy (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton,
WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
California’s
Governor Wants His State’s Carbon Market to Link with Quebec’s (Sacramento Bee, CA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Solar
Panels Could Destroy U-S Utilities, According To U-S Utilities (Grist Online)
Burien
Resident Claims City Doesn’t Deserve Tree City USA Status (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google Expanding Super-Fast Internet Service to Austin,
Texas (Washington Post)
Why AT&T’s Promise to Bring 1 Gbps to Austin is
Mostly Empty - Company Tries Damage Control With Carefully-Worded Press Release
(Broadband Reports)
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Adorably-Pretends-They-Too-Will-Offer-1-Gbps-in-Austin-123807
Kansas City Slow To Connect with Google’s Super-Fast
Internet (National Public Radio)
It’s Surprisingly Inexpensive For Google to Build
Its Cable-Destroying Google Fiber Network (Business Insider)
North Carolina - The Curious Tale of Raleigh’s Free
Downtown Wi-Fi “…downtown free Wi-Fi went bankrupt last year - and forgot to
tell the city…” (The Raleigh Record, NC)
Fox Affiliates Exec Says Stations ‘On Board’ with
Plan to Move to Pay TV amid Aereo Dispute (Associated Press)
Private Cloud Mania Drives Data Center Expansion, Survey Says
(GigaOM)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Texas - Local Companies Cash in on Google Fiber
Announcement (Austin Business Journal, TX)
General Motors Gives Facebook another Chance
(Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State to Look at Last-Minute Salary
Hikes That Led to Boosted Pensions (Associated Press)
Editorial - Spiking Public Safety Pensions Hurts
Poor Kids the Most (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Washington State Senate Leader: ‘Dream Act’ Is Dead
This Session (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
Man Suspected in Fatal Mason County Hit-And-Run
Pleads Innocent (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Washington State Worries as Boeing Pours $1 Billion
into South Carolina (Seattle Times, WA)
Vancouver, WA Teen Found Safe after Two-Week
Disappearance (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Public to Weigh In on Mason County Forest
Conservation (Olympian, WA)
Former Tumwater Municipal Court Judge Could Face
Jail Time after Second DUI Arrest (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Court Approves Sale of Last Core Hostess Assets (Associated
Press)
Oregon Girls Rescue Dad by Lifting Tractor Off His
Chest (KATU-TV, Portland, OR)
DIVERSIONS
Cicadas
to Emerge on East Coast after 17 Years
Does
a Star Wars Palace in Italy Need the Army to Protect It?
New
York ‘Gambling Nun’ Guilty in $130,000 Church Thefts
Canada
Woman in C$40,000 Lottery Prize Actually Won C $40 Million
SONG OF THE DAY
Zero
the Antistar - The Lonely Cricket Sonata
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