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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
High
Wind Warnings in Effect as Windstorm Looms This Evening (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Yakama
Nation Files Lawsuit against Army Corps Over River Cleanup (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Higher
Phone Bills to Pay for High-Speed Internet at Schools (Associated Press)
Washington
State Utilities & Transportation Commission Wants to Test By-The-Mile Road
Tax (Associated Press)
Should Homeowners with Solar Panels Pay to Maintain
Electrical Grid? (National Public Radio)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Seven Tips to Prepare for High Wind Storm, Power Outage
- Magid: How to Keep Your Gadgets Running During a Power Outage
- Clallam PUD Readies for Increase in Utility Rates - Informational Meetings Scheduled
- FERC Plans Conferences on EPA Clean Power Plan
- Ontario: Smart Meters Have Few Benefits for Big Costs: AG Report
- Electric, Gas Industries Still Can’t Agree on When the Day Starts
- Senate Confirms Two Tennessee Valley Authority Nominees
- Yakama Nation Files Lawsuit against Army Corps Over River Cleanup
- Sturgeon Population Slowly Improving in Lower Columbia
- Flap over Sage Grouse Spurs Congress to Intervene
- Should Homeowners with Solar Panels Pay to Maintain Electrical Grid?
- Poll: Oregonians of All Stripes Support Renewable Energy
- How Utilities Can Design Demand Response & Efficiency Programs to Boost Customer Engagement
- Report: Feds Gathering Evidence against Cannabis Companies
- ‘Bad Actors’ in Medical Marijuana to be Weeded Out, Seattle Official Says
- Higher Phone Bills to Pay for High-Speed Internet at Schools
- Douglas PUD Reduces Fiber Hook-Up Rate
- Your Internet Access Will be Tax-Free for Another Year, at Least
- CenturyLink’s New Gigabit Internet Service: Where It Is (Map), What It Costs
- Washington State Utilities & Transportation Commission Wants to Test By-The-Mile Road Tax
- High Wind Warnings in Effect as Windstorm Looms This Evening
- Big Wind Tonight
- Homeowners Prepare for Power Outages, Tree Damage in Pacific NW Storm
- Bay Area Storm: Flash Flood Warnings, Tree Injures Child, Thousands without Power
- Oregon: Another Earthquake Swarm Rattles Lakeview Area
- Thief Strips Wiring from Kelso’s Stan Rister Stadium Lights
- What Is an Atmospheric River?
Phalanx
• \FAY-lanks\ • noun – 1: a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece
formed in close deep ranks and files; broadly: a body of troops in close array
2 plural phalanges: one of the digital bones of the hand or foot of a vertebrate
3: a massed arrangement of persons, animals, or things: an organized body of
persons
The
Amish space heater salesman strode into the room, head held high, surrounded by
his phalanx of high-priced Philadelphia lawyers. One could not imagine a more
impressive sight, until a small child squeaked, “Mamma look, that man has no
clothes!”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Seven
Tips to Prepare for High Wind Storm, Power Outage (Thurston Talks, Olympia, WA)
Magid:
How to Keep Your Gadgets Running During a Power Outage (San Jose Mercury News,
CA)
Clallam
PUD Readies for Increase in Utility Rates - Informational Meetings Scheduled
(Sequim Gazette, WA)
FERC
Plans Conferences on EPA Clean Power Plan (Utility Dive)
Ontario:
Smart Meters Have Few Benefits for Big Costs: AG Report (Toronto Star, Ontario)
Electric,
Gas Industries Still Can’t Agree on When the Day Starts (Utility Dive)
Senate
Confirms Two Tennessee Valley Authority Nominees (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Yakama
Nation Files Lawsuit against Army Corps Over River Cleanup (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Sturgeon Population Slowly Improving in Lower Columbia
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Flap over Sage Grouse Spurs Congress to Intervene
(Associated Press)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Should Homeowners with Solar Panels Pay to Maintain
Electrical Grid? (National Public Radio)
Poll:
Oregonians of All Stripes Support Renewable Energy (Portland Business Journal,
OR)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
How
Utilities Can Design Demand Response & Efficiency Programs to Boost
Customer Engagement (Utility Dive)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Report:
Feds Gathering Evidence against Cannabis Companies (Marijuana Business Daily)
‘Bad
Actors’ in Medical Marijuana to be Weeded Out, Seattle Official Says (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Higher
Phone Bills to Pay for High-Speed Internet at Schools (Associated Press)
Douglas
PUD Reduces Fiber Hook-Up Rate (Wenatchee World, WA)
Your
Internet Access Will be Tax-Free for Another Year, at Least (Washington Post)
CenturyLink’s
New Gigabit Internet Service: Where It Is (Map), What It Costs (Oregonian,
Portland)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington
State Utilities & Transportation Commission Wants to Test By-The-Mile Road
Tax (Associated Press)
GENERAL NEWS
High
Wind Warnings in Effect as Windstorm Looms This Evening (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Big
Wind Tonight (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
Homeowners
Prepare for Power Outages, Tree Damage in Pacific NW Storm (KATU-TV, Portland,
OR)
Bay
Area Storm: Flash Flood Warnings, Tree Injures Child, Thousands without Power (San
Jose Mercury News, CA)
Oregon:
Another Earthquake Swarm Rattles Lakeview Area (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Thief
Strips Wiring from Kelso’s Stan Rister Stadium Lights (Longview Daily News, WA)
What
Is an Atmospheric River? (Gizmodo)
DIVERSIONS
Man
Secretly Living above Denver Bar Falls through Ceiling, Gets Stuck in Wall
This
Agency Wants You to Become a Christmas Tree by Putting Ornaments in Your Beard
I
MEANT Mazel Tov – Wisconsin Governor Says ‘Molotov’ in Hanukkah Letter Was Typo
Washington
State Baby Tips Scales at Nearly 15 Pounds
SONG OF THE DAY
Where’s
your emergency kit?
The
Temptations - Get Ready
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