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News Digest Word Cloud for May 7, 2013
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
California May Fine Pacific Gas & Electric
$2.25 Billion over San Bruno Gas Fire (Reuters)
Man Who Died Climbing Seattle Power Tower
Identified (Associated Press)
Copper Theft Epidemic Has Lawmakers Looking for
Answers “…nobody questioned us on where we got our high-grade copper wire.
Nobody rejected my fake ID…workers coached us on how to get cash instead of a
check…” (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
CenturyLink Suffering Major Broadband Outage -
Customer Support Lines Have Crashed (Broadband Reports)
SoloPower
Makes Last-Minute Oregon Loan Payment, Extending Hope for Thin-Film Solar
(Oregonian, Portland, OR)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- California May Fine Pacific Gas & Electric $2.25 Billion over San Bruno Gas Fire
- Man Who Died Climbing Seattle Power Tower Identified
- Two People Shocked by Power Lines after Pickup Hits Utility Pole in Arlington
- Copper Theft Epidemic Has Lawmakers Looking for Answers
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District Considers Back-To-Back Rate Hikes, Time of Use Pricing
- At Least 11 Apply for Chelan County PUD’s Top Job
- Dam Power Makes Clocks Crazy: ‘I Thought My Watch Was Broken’
- Shot from Pellet Gun Suspected Cause of East Wenatchee-Area Outage
- California Electric Supply Seen as Adequate for Summer
- Does Water Power Hurt the Environment?
- Tri-Cities School Children to Release Schools of Salmon Today & Tomorrow
- Let the Hype Begin! The Man Behind the Copper River Salmon Frenzy as Season Fast Approaches
- Carpenter Ants Invade the Inland Northwest
- Full Water Supply Predicted for Yakima Basin Farmers this Summer
- Water War Erupts on Sammamish Plateau
- Anti-Logging Protesters: ‘We Are Not Terrorists’
- SoloPower Makes Last-Minute Oregon Loan Payment, Extending Hope for Thin-Film Solar
- First Solar to Lay off 150 Employees in North America
- Moses Lake, Grant County Officials Meet to Discuss REC Agreement
- New Washington Energy Legislation: Legislature Continues to Wrestle With Questions Raised by Renewables
- Generations Credit Union Teams Up with Thurston Energy for Low Loans
- Next Big Thing for LEED Planning? Sustainable Neighborhoods
- This Power Plant Will Tap the Ocean for Endless Power
- CenturyLink Suffering Major Broadband Outage - Customer Support Lines Have Crashed
- Will Bad Data Make Rural Alaska Miss the Broadband Revolution?
- U-S Congress - Fight Expected in House on Online Sales Tax
- YouTube Set to Launch Pay Channels within Weeks
- It’s Hard to Tell When the Onion’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked, Because It’s the Onion
- Leonard Nimoy Smack Talks Zachary Quinto, Drops F-Bomb in Audi Ad
- Governor Inslee Wants Negotiations on Washington State Budget Deal
- Dangerous Mason County Man in Custody
- Washington State DNR Makes Progress on Westside Wildfires
- SeaTac - Thieves Looking for Metal Piping Trigger Dangerous Leak
- Escaped Cleveland Woman Amanda Berry ‘Real Hero’ in Kidnapping Case, Police Say
- Celebrate State Parks Centennial with ShellFest in Belfair
- Peter Watson Hits Hole-In-One Shot At Salish Cliffs Golf Course, Wins Car
WORD OF THE DAY
Exiguous
• \ig-ZIG-yuh-wuss\ • Adjective - Excessively scanty: inadequate.
If
Bradley’s intent was to inflict a “wardrobe malfunction” on the unsuspecting
attendees at the state basketball finals, he was eminently successful. The exiguous
waist-band cord failed at the most inappropriate moment…Brad’s last-second, game
winning, emphatic slam dunk with two seconds remaining. Let us just say it was
not just the nets that came down that night.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
California May Fine Pacific Gas & Electric $2.25
Billion over San Bruno Gas Fire (Reuters)
Man Who Died Climbing Seattle Power Tower Identified
(Associated Press)
Two People Shocked by Power Lines after Pickup
Hits Utility Pole in Arlington (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Copper Theft Epidemic Has Lawmakers Looking for Answers
“…nobody questioned us on where we got our high-grade copper wire. Nobody
rejected my fake ID…workers coached us on how to get cash instead of a check…” (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Sacramento Municipal Utility District Considers
Back-To-Back Rate Hikes, Time of Use Pricing (Sacramento
Bee, CA)
At Least 11 Apply for Chelan County PUD’s Top Job
(Wenatchee World, WA)
Dam Power Makes Clocks Crazy: ‘I Thought My Watch
Was Broken’ (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Shot from Pellet Gun Suspected Cause of East
Wenatchee-Area Outage (Wenatchee World, WA)
California Electric Supply Seen as Adequate for
Summer (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Does Water Power Hurt the Environment? (Deutsch
Welle)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Tri-Cities School Children to Release Schools of
Salmon Today & Tomorrow (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Let the Hype Begin! The Man Behind the Copper
River Salmon Frenzy as Season Fast Approaches (Puget
Sound Business Journal, WA)
Carpenter Ants Invade the Inland Northwest (Associated Press)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Full
Water Supply Predicted for Yakima Basin Farmers this Summer (KNDU-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Water
War Erupts on Sammamish Plateau (KING-TV, Seattle,
WA)
Anti-Logging
Protesters: ‘We Are Not Terrorists’ (Northwest
Public Radio)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
SoloPower
Makes Last-Minute Oregon Loan Payment, Extending Hope for Thin-Film Solar (Oregonian,
Portland, OR)
First
Solar to Lay off 150 Employees in North America (Renewable Energy World)
Moses
Lake, Grant County Officials Meet to Discuss REC Agreement (Columbia Basin
Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
New
Washington Energy Legislation: Legislature Continues to Wrestle With Questions
Raised by Renewables (GTH Energy & Natural Resources Law Blog)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Generations
Credit Union Teams Up with Thurston Energy for Low Loans (Thurston Talks,
Olympia, WA)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Next
Big Thing for LEED Planning? Sustainable Neighborhoods (Midwest Energy News)
This
Power Plant Will Tap the Ocean for Endless Power (Gizmodo)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CenturyLink Suffering Major Broadband Outage - Customer
Support Lines Have Crashed (Broadband Reports)
Will Bad Data Make Rural Alaska Miss the Broadband
Revolution? (Alaska Dispatch)
U-S Congress - Fight Expected in House on Online
Sales Tax (Reuters)
YouTube Set to Launch Pay Channels within Weeks
(Yahoo! News)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
It’s Hard to Tell When the Onion’s Twitter Account
Gets Hacked, Because It’s the Onion (Consumerist)
Leonard Nimoy Smack Talks Zachary Quinto, Drops
F-Bomb in Audi Ad (Jalopnik)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Governor Inslee Wants Negotiations on Washington
State Budget Deal (Everett Herald, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Dangerous Mason County Man in Custody (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Washington State DNR Makes Progress on Westside
Wildfires (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
SeaTac - Thieves Looking for Metal Piping Trigger
Dangerous Leak (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Escaped Cleveland Woman Amanda Berry ‘Real Hero’ in
Kidnapping Case, Police Say (Associated Press)
Celebrate State Parks Centennial with ShellFest in
Belfair (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Peter Watson Hits Hole-In-One Shot At Salish Cliffs
Golf Course, Wins Car (Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Medina
Man Gets $1,103 Speeding Ticket in Oregon
In
The Global Competition for Rain, Seattle a Winner!
Stormtrooper,
Ghostbuster Assaulted During Free Comic Book Day; 300-Pound Man Arrested
QWERTY’s
Origin Story Is a Big Fat Lie
SONG OF THE DAY
Typewriter
Symphony Orchestra
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