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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Columbia River Spring Chinook Sport Fishing Open
Friday, Saturday (Longview Daily News, WA)
Tennessee Valley Authority Cuts Jobs, Feds to
Determine Agency’s Future (Birmingham Business Journal, AL)
Yakima
Basin Canals Could Generate Electricity - New turbine technology can create
electricity without using dams (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Google Fiber’s Portland Deal Won’t Serve Everyone
(Oregonian, Portland)
Three Charts That Explain How U-S Journalists Use
Social Media (Washington Post)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Tennessee Valley Authority Cuts Jobs, Feds to Determine Agency’s Future (Birmingham Business Journal, AL)
- Women Make Work a Better Place, Says Bonneville Power Administration Exec (Portland Tribune, OR)
- Jefferson County PUD Billing Cycles Still Being Worked On; Utility Negotiates with Meter-Reading Company (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
- California Here I Come: Oversized Dam Gates Passing Through Clackamas County Tuesday, Wednesday Nights (Oregonian, Portland)
- Avista Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter & Fiscal Year 2013; Confirms 2014 Earnings Guidance (Yahoo! Finance)
- Election Contests for County Commissioners, Utility District Take Form in Jefferson County (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
- Duke Energy Posts Loss on Write-Down of Coal Fleet, Results Top Analyst Expectations (Associated Press)
- Stanford to Purge $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock (NY Times)
- Energy Games? Harry Reid Compares GOP to ‘Greased Pigs’ (Politico)
- Op/ED: Did Obama’s New FERC Nominee ‘Criminalize’ Energy Regulation? (Forbes Magazine)
- Columbia River Spring Chinook Sport Fishing Open Friday, Saturday (Longview Daily News, WA)
- Irrigators Call for Cap on Pacific Northwest Salmon Recovery Spending (Capital Press)
- Anglers Upset With Agreement on Steelhead Releases - Planting In Dungeness River Affected By Deal Made To Nix Lawsuit (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
- Mid-Columbia Students Releasing Salmon into Rivers (Tri-City Herald, WA)
- Scientists Say Invasive Trout in Yellowstone Park in Decline Following Costly Removal Program (Associated Press)
- Welcome to PR Hell: Shorebird Wood Chipper Massacre Reported in Oakland (SF Chronicle, CA)
- City of Shelton: Rough Water Ahead - Pay Now or Pay Later (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
- Water Flows Uphill? Maybe, in California Drought (Associated Press)
- Yakima Basin Canals Could Generate Electricity - New turbine technology can create electricity without using dams (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
- SoloPower Systems Marks another Month in the Red as Executives Pursue ‘Major’ Investment (Oregonian, Portland)
- Native Wind: A Look at the Pacific Northwest’s First Tribal Turbine (Sustainable Business Oregon)
- Oregon: Paisley Geothermal Plant May Be Online this Summer (Blue Mountain Eagle, John Day, OR)
- Judge Has Harsh Words for Cape Wind Foes (Renewable Energy World)
- Governor Inslee on Climate Change Warnings for Washington State (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
- White House Climate Report Dire Yet Optimistic (Associated Press)
- Columnist: Climate Change in the Northwest: Lower Snowpack, More Fires, Ocean Acidification (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
- Editorial: States & Cities Need to Act on Climate Change (Washington Post)
- Fortis to Double ‘Green’ Biogas Supplies in British Columbia (Victoria Times Colonist, BC)
- Google Fiber’s Portland Deal Won’t Serve Everyone (Oregonian, Portland)
- Google Fiber Passes on Vancouver, WA - Portland, some of its suburbs still in running (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
- Survey: Google Fiber Seeing Great Uptake Rate (Broadband Reports)
- Municipal Broadband Primer Emphasizes the Practical (The Hill, Washington, DC)
- Data Center Firm Igneous Systems Raises $23.6 Million (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
- Data Breaches: A New Source of Worry for CEOs (Associated Press)
- Three Charts That Explain How U-S Journalists Use Social Media (Washington Post)
- Drug Reference? Mocked on Internet, Diet Coke Alters Ads (NY Times)
- Here’s the Button to Save Google Maps to Use Offline (GigaOM)
- Filing for Public Office Begins May 12 in Washington State (Washington Secretary of State Office)
- Rodney Tom Talks about the Sometimes-Petty Olympia Scene He’s Leaving (Crosscut Seattle)
- Embezzler Gets One Year, Three Months in Prison – Took Money from State County Officials Association, Horse Club (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
- Quinault Tribe Explores “Moving” Town of Taholah (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
- Human Foot in Sneaker Found on Seattle Shore (Associated Press)
- Portland (Yes, Portland) Orders ‘America’s Bicycle Capital’ Mural Removed (Oregonian, Portland)
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Tennessee Valley Authority Cuts Jobs, Feds to
Determine Agency’s Future (Birmingham Business Journal, AL)
Women Make Work a Better Place, Says Bonneville
Power Administration Exec (Portland Tribune, OR)
Jefferson County PUD Billing Cycles Still Being
Worked On; Utility Negotiates with Meter-Reading Company (Port Townsend Leader,
WA)
California Here I Come: Oversized Dam Gates
Passing Through Clackamas County Tuesday, Wednesday Nights (Oregonian,
Portland)
Avista Reports Financial Results for Fourth
Quarter & Fiscal Year 2013; Confirms 2014 Earnings Guidance (Yahoo!
Finance)
Election Contests for County Commissioners, Utility
District Take Form in Jefferson County (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Duke Energy Posts Loss on Write-Down of Coal
Fleet, Results Top Analyst Expectations (Associated Press)
Stanford to Purge $18 Billion Endowment of Coal
Stock (NY Times)
Energy Games? Harry Reid Compares GOP to ‘Greased
Pigs’ (Politico)
Op/ED: Did Obama’s New FERC Nominee ‘Criminalize’
Energy Regulation? (Forbes Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia River Spring Chinook Sport Fishing Open
Friday, Saturday (Longview Daily News, WA)
Irrigators Call for Cap on Pacific Northwest Salmon
Recovery Spending (Capital Press)
Anglers Upset With Agreement on Steelhead
Releases - Planting In Dungeness River Affected By Deal Made To Nix Lawsuit (Peninsula
Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Mid-Columbia Students Releasing Salmon into Rivers
(Tri-City Herald, WA)
Scientists Say Invasive Trout in Yellowstone Park
in Decline Following Costly Removal Program (Associated Press)
Welcome to PR Hell: Shorebird Wood Chipper
Massacre Reported in Oakland (SF Chronicle, CA)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
City
of Shelton: Rough Water Ahead - Pay Now or Pay Later (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Water
Flows Uphill? Maybe, in California Drought (Associated
Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Yakima
Basin Canals Could Generate Electricity - New turbine technology can create
electricity without using dams (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
SoloPower
Systems Marks another Month in the Red as Executives Pursue ‘Major’ Investment (Oregonian,
Portland)
Native
Wind: A Look at the Pacific Northwest’s First Tribal Turbine (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Oregon:
Paisley Geothermal Plant May Be Online this Summer (Blue Mountain Eagle, John
Day, OR)
Judge
Has Harsh Words for Cape Wind Foes (Renewable
Energy World)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Governor
Inslee on Climate Change Warnings for Washington State (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
White
House Climate Report Dire Yet Optimistic (Associated
Press)
Columnist:
Climate Change in the Northwest: Lower Snowpack, More Fires, Ocean
Acidification (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Editorial:
States & Cities Need to Act on Climate Change (Washington Post)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Fortis
to Double ‘Green’ Biogas Supplies in British Columbia (Victoria Times Colonist,
BC)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Google Fiber’s Portland Deal Won’t Serve Everyone (Oregonian,
Portland)
Google Fiber Passes on Vancouver, WA - Portland,
some of its suburbs still in running (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
Survey: Google Fiber Seeing Great Uptake Rate (Broadband
Reports)
Municipal Broadband Primer Emphasizes the Practical
(The Hill, Washington, DC)
Data Center Firm Igneous Systems Raises $23.6 Million
(Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Data Breaches: A New Source of Worry for CEOs (Associated Press)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Three Charts That Explain How U-S Journalists Use
Social Media (Washington Post)
Drug Reference? Mocked on Internet, Diet Coke
Alters Ads (NY Times)
Here’s the Button to Save Google Maps to Use
Offline (GigaOM)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Filing for Public Office Begins May 12 in
Washington State (Washington Secretary of State Office)
Rodney Tom Talks about the Sometimes-Petty Olympia
Scene He’s Leaving (Crosscut Seattle)
GENERAL NEWS
Embezzler Gets One Year, Three Months in Prison –
Took Money from State County Officials Association, Horse Club (Olympian -
Paywall Advisory)
Quinault Tribe Explores “Moving” Town of Taholah (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Human Foot in Sneaker Found on Seattle Shore (Associated Press)
Portland (Yes, Portland) Orders ‘America’s Bicycle
Capital’ Mural Removed (Oregonian, Portland)
DIVERSIONS
Family
Dog Lays on Lost 3-Year-Old to Keep Him Warm
Seattle
Astronaut Wannabes Make Latest Cut to Colonize Mars
Spice
Up Your Life with This New Wasabi-Infused Beer
The
Best Meteor Shower of the Year Might Happen on May 24
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Life on Mars
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