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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Historic
Settlement Requires Corps to Disclose Pollution at Columbia, Snake River Dams (Associated Press)
Okanogan County Electricity Should Be Back on by
Thursday (Omak Chronicle, WA)
Windstorm 2014: Avista Releases Details of Outage;
Biggest in Past 18 Years (KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA)
More Google Effect: The Competition for High-Speed
Fiber Optic Internet is Escalating in 13 Cities (Washington Post)
Op/Ed:
Public Needs Voice in Washington State Carbon Debate (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Okanogan County Electricity Should Be Back on by Thursday
- Windstorm 2014: Avista Releases Details of Outage; Biggest in Past 18 Years
- Bonneville Power Administration’s Credit Ratings Affirmed, Bond Sale Will Save Customers Millions of Dollars
- What is a “Thumper Truck,” & What Does It Do?
- Nimby News: Natural Gas - Massachusetts is Ground Zero for Northeast’s Pipeline Fight
- Flashback! Suit Aims to Halt Salvage Logging in Spotted Owl Habitat
- Idaho Power Crews Land Giant Sturgeon – Tag It, Release It
- Historic Settlement Requires Corps to Disclose Pollution at Columbia, Snake River Dams
- Meters or No Meters, Bellingham Residents Show Signs of Being Water-Conscious
- Ohio: Behind Toledo’s Water Crisis, a Long-Troubled Lake Erie
- LED-Maker Next Lighting Corp. Moves Manufacturing from Scotts Valley to Seattle, Opens New Office
- Op/Ed: Public Needs Voice in Washington State Carbon Debate
- Once-Frozen Arctic Sea Now Gets 16-Foot Waves
- More Google Effect: The Competition for High-Speed Fiber Optic Internet is Escalating in 13 Cities
- CenturyLink Expands Fiber Broadband Speeds Up to 1 Gigabit to (some) Seattle Neighborhoods
- CenturyLink Plans Broader Fiber Rollout, Gigabit Speeds, in (some) Portland Neighborhoods
- CenturyLink Fiber: How It Matches Up with Comcast, Google Fiber
- Verizon’s Defense for LTE Throttling: We’re Not Going After Unlimited Users; They’re Just Data Hogs
- How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil
- LinkedIn Will Pay $6 Million in Back Wages, Damages after Multi-State Labor Investigation
- Los Angeles Residents Call 911 When Facebook Goes Down
- Public Power Magazine Recognized with Two National Awards
- Wow, the Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest Are Unreal
- Wildfires Menace Homes in Three Western States
- Windstorm 2014: Lake Roosevelt Poker Run Ends with Boaters Hanging on for Dear Life
- Washington Seeks to Avoid Court Ruling That State Pot Law is Pre-Empted by Federal Law
- Growing the Best Pot Can Be Tricky
- Even Marijuana Opponents Concede That Pot Has Gone Mainstream
- Relay for Life Founder Passes Away, Leaving a Worldwide Legacy
Balkanize
• \BALL-kun-eyes\ • Verb - 1: to break up (as a region or group) into smaller &
often hostile units 2: divide, compartmentalize
“HA!
We went from a single, smooth running operation to a group of disconnected subsidiaries
spread throughout the globe,” crowed the renowned reorganization expert to the
cowering board of directors. “We keep this up, and the balkanization of the
Balkans will look like child’s play,” he cackled, wringing his claw like
fingers in glee.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Okanogan County Electricity Should Be Back on by Thursday
(Omak Chronicle, WA)
Windstorm 2014: Avista Releases Details of Outage;
Biggest in Past 18 Years (KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA)
Bonneville Power Administration’s Credit Ratings
Affirmed, Bond Sale Will Save Customers Millions of Dollars (Bonneville Power
Administration)
What is a “Thumper
Truck,” & What Does It Do? (Mason County PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Nimby News: Natural Gas - Massachusetts is Ground
Zero for Northeast’s Pipeline Fight (Christian Science Monitor)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Flashback! Suit Aims to Halt Salvage Logging in Spotted
Owl Habitat (Sustainable Business Oregon)
Idaho Power Crews Land Giant Sturgeon – Tag It, Release
It (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Historic
Settlement Requires Corps to Disclose Pollution at Columbia, Snake River Dams (Associated Press)
Meters
or No Meters, Bellingham Residents Show Signs of Being Water-Conscious
(Bellingham Herald, WA)
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/08/04/3780801/meters-or-no-meters-bellingham.html
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/08/04/3780801/meters-or-no-meters-bellingham.html
Ohio:
Behind Toledo’s Water Crisis, a Long-Troubled Lake Erie (NY Times)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
LED-Maker
Next Lighting Corp. Moves Manufacturing from Scotts Valley to Seattle, Opens
New Office (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Op/Ed:
Public Needs Voice in Washington State Carbon Debate (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Once-Frozen
Arctic Sea Now Gets 16-Foot Waves (USA Today)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
More Google Effect: The Competition for High-Speed
Fiber Optic Internet is Escalating in 13 Cities (Washington Post)
CenturyLink Expands Fiber Broadband Speeds Up to 1
Gigabit to (some) Seattle Neighborhoods (Puget Sound
Business Journal, WA)
CenturyLink Plans Broader Fiber Rollout, Gigabit
Speeds, in (some) Portland Neighborhoods (Oregonian, Portland)
CenturyLink Fiber: How It Matches Up with Comcast, Google
Fiber (Oregonian, Portland)
Verizon’s Defense for LTE Throttling: We’re Not
Going After Unlimited Users; They’re Just Data Hogs (Consumerist)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil (NY Times)
LinkedIn Will Pay $6 Million in Back Wages, Damages
after Multi-State Labor Investigation (Associated
Press)
Los Angeles Residents Call 911 When Facebook Goes
Down (Cable News Network)
Public Power Magazine Recognized with Two National
Awards (American Public Power Association)
Wow, the Winners of the National Geographic Photo
Contest Are Unreal (Gizmodo)
GENERAL NEWS
Wildfires Menace Homes in Three Western States (Associated Press)
Windstorm 2014: Lake Roosevelt Poker Run Ends with
Boaters Hanging on for Dear Life (KHQ-TV, Spokane, WA)
Washington Seeks to Avoid Court Ruling That State
Pot Law is Pre-Empted by Federal Law (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Growing the Best
Pot Can Be Tricky (Northwest Public Radio)
Even Marijuana Opponents Concede That Pot Has Gone
Mainstream (Washington Post)
Relay for Life Founder Passes Away, Leaving a
Worldwide Legacy (KBKW Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Man
Struck Trying to Videotape Lightning: ‘I Made Possibly the World’s Worst
Decision’
Elderly
Black Lab Rejected by Owner after Walking 30 Miles to Return Home
Arizona
Researcher in Airport Flap Says He Was Asserting Gun Rights
Man
Who Underwent Four Surgeries to Look like a Ken Doll is Releasing Doll of His
Own
SONG OF THE DAY
Franz
Waxman - Sunset Boulevard Prelude (1950 Movie Soundtrack)
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