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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Vets, Visitors
Flock To Normandy to Remember D-Day (TIME Magazine)
Ocean Salmon
Fishing Hot, as Predicted “…summer salmon runs for the Pacific Ocean &
Columbia River should be immense…” (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Portland
General Electric Moving Ahead with Boardman Natural Gas Plant (East Oregonian,
Pendleton)
How Will EPA Rules Affect Your Power Bill? Power
Providers Say It Is Too Soon to Tell (Bend Bulletin, OR)
Washington State Governor: Fires Will Worsen without
Emission Control (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Portland General Electric Moving Ahead with Boardman Natural Gas Plant
- Idaho: Wednesday’s Power Outage Caused by Gunshot
- Zapped Squirrel Caused Clark County Outage
- $120,000 Raise OK’d for Seattle City Light’s Top Job
- Seattle City Light Chief Gets Pay Boost with Help from Tacoma
- California: Seven Arrested in Copper Wire Theft Ring
- Lost Films Chronicle Dawn of Hydroelectric Power in the Pacific Northwest
- Xcel Sues over Push for City-Owned Utility in Colorado
- Prepay Plans for Electricity Offer Alternative to the Usual Monthly Power Bill
- Ontario’s Power Trip: Irrational Energy Planning Has Tripled Power Rates under the Liberals’ Direction
- India Fights to Keep the Lights On
- Ocean Salmon Fishing Hot, as Predicted
- Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission Voting on Plan to Limit Hatchery Salmon
- Oregon Fish & Wildlife Budget $32 Million Short
- The Columbia River Treaty: Salmon En Route - Canada & the United States Face Tough Negotiations
- Washington State Residents See ‘Massive Killer Whale Parade’
- New Program Could Mean More Money for Yakima Basin Projects
- El Niño Likely to be Too Weak to Have Big Impact on California Drought
- Wave Energy Finally Gets Its Day in the Water Off the Oregon Coast
- Ocean Current Energy Getting a Test Site in Florida
- Small-Scale Ocean Turbines Could Expand U-S Renewable Energy Portfolio
- State Official: Cut Subsidies for Texas Wind Energy
- IBM Has a Machine Learning Project to Forecast Solar & of Course It’s Called (LOL) Watt-Sun
- This Is How Little It Costs for States to Go Renewable
- How Many BTUs of A/C Do I Need for My Home?
- Try Snohomish PUD EnergyAdvisor for a Chance to Win $200 Off Your Bill
- Energy Efficiency Strategy Benefits from a Portfolio Approach
- Indiana: Utility Watchdog Says Ending Efficiency Program ‘Short-Sighted’
- How Will EPA Rules Affect Your Power Bill? Power Providers Say It Is Too Soon to Tell
- Washington State Governor: Fires Will Worsen without Emission Control
- U-S Hottest Spots of Warming: Northeast, Southwest
- Comcast Introduces Public & Private Wi-Fi Signals in One Modem
- Google Owns Up to Crashed Loon Balloon
- Killing Muni-Broadband Bans First Step to Helping U-S Broadband
- Affordable Seattle broadband? What Would Macklemore Do?
- Google Gets Serious About Rescuing Broadband
- Online TV Viewing Up 246% as More Turn to Smartphones
- 2015: The Year There Will Be More Cellular Connections than People
- How Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi
- Skip the Website? Some Small Businesses Still Do
- Gatorade Apologizes For Tweets after LeBron James Cramps Up in Game 1 of NBA Finals
- 24% of Americans Stopped Buying Online Because of Breaches
- Twitch Study Finds Video Gamers Are More Sociable, Optimistic, Creative than Non-Players
- One California County Votes to Secede, Two Counties Vote to Stick Around
- Nisqually Wildlife Refuge Center to Be Named Friday for Norm Dicks
- Students Gather to Pray after Seattle Pacific Shooting
- Police Search Home Believed to be Tied to SPU Shooting Suspect
- SPU Student Praised As Hero for Actions during Shooting
- Alcohol Involved in Highway 3 Rollover
- Pacific Northwest Fire Season Ramps Up East of the Cascades
- El Niño Could Bring Mild Pacific Northwest Winter
- Vets, Visitors Flock To Normandy to Remember D-Day
- D-Day (U-S Army)
- The Day before D-Day, Dwight Eisenhower Wrote This Famous Message
- AP Was There, 1944: Allies Win Footholds in France
- Very Cool - Watch D-Day Unfold in Real Time on Twitter, 70 Years Later
Perdure • \purr-DURR\ • Verb - To continue to exist: last
My father shuddered when we begged for ice cream cones at
“Dairy Dan’s” in Chehalis. He knew that one tiny drop of the gooey soft-serve would
purdure for months in the car; migrating to door handles, windows, door locks
and vinyl seats before finally ending its life as a permanent stain on a floor
mat.
SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Portland
General Electric Moving Ahead with Boardman Natural Gas Plant (East Oregonian,
Pendleton)
Idaho: Wednesday’s
Power Outage Caused by Gunshot (Ketchum Keystone, ID)
Zapped
Squirrel Caused Clark County Outage (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
$120,000 Raise
OK’d for Seattle City Light’s Top Job (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Seattle City
Light Chief Gets Pay Boost with Help from Tacoma (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA –
Paywall Advisory)
California:
Seven Arrested in Copper Wire Theft Ring (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
Lost Films Chronicle
Dawn of Hydroelectric Power in the Pacific Northwest (Bonneville Power
Administration – Links to PDF File)
Xcel Sues over
Push for City-Owned Utility in Colorado (Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal,
MN)
Prepay Plans
for Electricity Offer Alternative to the Usual Monthly Power Bill (National
Geographic Magazine)
Ontario’s
Power Trip: Irrational energy planning has tripled power rates under the
Liberals’ direction (Financial Post, Canada)
India Fights
to Keep the Lights On (Bloomberg News)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Ocean Salmon
Fishing Hot, as Predicted “…summer salmon runs for the Pacific Ocean &
Columbia River should be immense…” (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Oregon Fish
& Wildlife Commission Voting on Plan to Limit Hatchery Salmon (Associated
Press)
Oregon Fish &
Wildlife Budget $32 Million Short (Associated Press)
The Columbia
River Treaty: Salmon En Route - Canada & the United States Face Tough
Negotiations (The Economist Magazine)
Washington
State Residents See ‘Massive Killer Whale Parade’ (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
New Program
Could Mean More Money for Yakima Basin Projects (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
El Niño Likely
to be Too Weak to Have Big Impact on California Drought (SF Chronicle, CA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Wave Energy Finally Gets Its Day in the Water Off the
Oregon Coast (Grist
Online)
Ocean Current Energy Getting a Test Site in Florida (National Geographic Magazine)
Small-Scale
Ocean Turbines Could Expand U-S Renewable Energy Portfolio (Fierce Energy)
State Official: Cut Subsidies for Texas Wind Energy (Associated
Press)
IBM Has a Machine Learning Project to Forecast Solar &
of Course It’s Called (LOL) Watt-Sun (GigaOM)
This Is How Little It Costs for States to Go Renewable
(Grist Online)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
How Many BTUs of
A/C Do I Need for My Home? (Consumerist)
Try Snohomish PUD
EnergyAdvisor for a Chance to Win $200 Off Your Bill (Edmonds Beacon, WA)
Energy
Efficiency Strategy Benefits from a Portfolio Approach (Forbes Magazine)
Indiana: Utility
Watchdog Says Ending Efficiency Program ‘Short-Sighted’ (Indianapolis Business
Journal, IN)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
How Will EPA Rules Affect Your Power Bill? Power Providers
Say It Is Too Soon to Tell (Bend Bulletin, OR)
Washington State Governor: Fires Will Worsen without
Emission Control (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
U-S Hottest Spots of Warming: Northeast, Southwest
(Associated Press)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Comcast
Introduces Public & Private Wi-Fi Signals in One Modem (Philadelphia
Business Journal, PA)
Google Owns Up to
Crashed Loon Balloon (Yakima Herald Republic, WA)
Killing
Muni-Broadband Bans First Step to Helping U-S Broadband (Broadband
Reports)
Affordable
Seattle broadband? What Would Macklemore Do? (Crosscut Seattle)
Google Gets
Serious About Rescuing Broadband (InfoWorld)
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/google-gets-serious-about-rescuing-broadband-243743
Online TV Viewing
Up 246% as More Turn to Smartphones (USA Today)
2015: The Year
There Will Be More Cellular Connections than People (GigaOM)
How Not to Pay
the Price for Free Wi-Fi (NY Times)
SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
Skip the
Website? Some Small Businesses Still Do (Associated Press)
Gatorade Apologizes
For Tweets after LeBron James Cramps Up in Game 1 of NBA Finals (Vancouver Sun,
BC)
24% of Americans
Stopped Buying Online Because of Breaches (USA Today)
Twitch Study
Finds Video Gamers Are More Sociable, Optimistic, Creative than Non-Players
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
One California County
Votes to Secede, Two Counties Vote to Stick Around (Washington Post)
Nisqually Wildlife
Refuge Center to Be Named Friday for Norm Dicks (Olympian, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Students Gather to
Pray after Seattle Pacific Shooting (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Police Search
Home Believed to be Tied to SPU Shooting Suspect (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
SPU Student
Praised As Hero for Actions during Shooting (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Alcohol Involved
in Highway 3 Rollover (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Pacific Northwest
Fire Season Ramps Up East of the Cascades (Northwest Public Radio)
El Niño Could
Bring Mild Pacific Northwest Winter (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
D-DAY REMBEMBRANCE
Vets, Visitors
Flock To Normandy to Remember D-Day (TIME Magazine)
D-Day (U-S Army)
The Day before
D-Day, Dwight Eisenhower Wrote This Famous Message (Christian Science Monitor)
AP Was There,
1944: Allies Win Footholds in France (Associated Press)
Very Cool - Watch
D-Day Unfold in Real Time on Twitter, 70 Years Later (Mashable)
DIVERSIONS
Police: ‘Golf Addict’ Steals $9,200 Worth of Clubs, More
http://www.komonews.com/news/crime/Police-Golf-addict-steals-9200-worth-of-clubs-more-262016611.html
Hey Baby! Frogs Use Storm Drains to Amplify Mating Calls,
Say Scientists
Angry Birds: Crow Attack Season Underway in Western
Washington State
Colbert Says Shop at Powell’s: ‘We’re Going to Prove That
I Can Sell More Books than Amazon’
SONG OF THE DAY
Maurice Jarre - The Longest Day Soundtrack
LINKS & PAYWALL ADVISORY
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current
stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites
regularly, which may result in broken links in the future.
Note that as some newspapers migrate to a “paywall”
system of access, some articles may not be available without forking over some
cold hard credit card cash. However, some sites will allow a certain number of
story accesses per month before holding out their hand. Sorry if this is an
inconvenience.
