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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Surging Salmon: Kings, Coho, Pinks Coming Back
Strong (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Winter
Sets Global Heat Record Despite US East’s Big Chill (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Washington
State Auditor’s Home Searched by Federal Agents (Northwest Public Radio)
California
Ballot Initiative Would Create Statewide Public Utility District (Utility Dive)
Feds
Warned Premera of Security Risks Three Weeks Before Cyber Attack (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- California Ballot Initiative Would Create Statewide Public Utility District
- UPDATE - Power Restored - Belfair-Focused Outage Needed to Complete Power Pole Replacement along Highway 3
- Bills Moving on Klickitat PUD Power, Eye Care
- Flathead Electric Co-Op’s Power Costs Keep Rising
- Tacoma Public Utilities Names In-House Candidate Chris Robinson to Head Tacoma Power
- Op/Ed: Cost of Cleaner Power Could Take Toll on Low-Income Families
- Survey Says: Electric Customers Applaud Utility Service
- Surging Salmon: Kings, Coho, Pinks Coming Back Strong
- Downstream from Here: Lake Cle Elum Fills Up So Sockeye Can Begin Their Journey
- 2,000 Dead Snow Geese Fall from the Sky in Idaho
- The Race to Save 1,100 Starving Baby Sea Lions
- California’s New Water Restrictions: If Drought Lingers, Are They Enough?
- The Renewable Energy Fight
- Analysis: IRS Grants Wind Power Developers an Extra 12 Months
- What Will Freak Weather Do to Renewable Energy?
- Why Four Grandmothers Are Champions of Solar Power in the Philippines
- Two Retail Marijuana Shops Now Open in Port Angeles
- Winter Sets Global Heat Record Despite US East’s Big Chill
- Obama to Order Cuts in Federal Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Feds Warned Premera of Security Risks Three Weeks Before Cyber Attack
- Target Agrees to Pay $10 Million to Settle Lawsuit from Data Breach
- Internet Explorer, We Hardly Wanted to Know Ye
- Chrome and Firefox Users Make Better Employees
- Republicans Can’t Overturn the FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules Without This Democrat – He’s Not Playing Along
- Can U-S Rep. Suzan Delbene Keep Your Fridge from Launching Spam Attacks?
- Would You Trust Facebook with Your Bank Account?
- Angry Birds Maker Bets on Animated Movie as Profit Drops
- Washington State Auditor’s Home Searched by Federal Agents
- Washington State Agencies to Plan for a Government Shutdown
- ‘Right to Work’ Fight over Public Employee Unions Heats Up in Oregon, May Go to 2016 Ballot
- Rep. Dan Griffey Gives Legislative Update on KMAS Radio, Shelton
- Car Stolen in Lacey with Two Children Inside
- Oregon: Driver Videotaping Child in Car Hit Teens in Crosswalk, Police Say
- Starbucks CEO Defends ‘Race Together’ after Backlash
- Washington State Projects Dust Storms & Fires for Eastern Washington
Lickerish
• \LIK-uh-rish\ • adjective - 1: greedy, desirous *2: lecherous
Bradley’s
intense competitive streak would be his undoing. As he hammered each volley of
the ping-pong ball at his diminutive opponent, the throng of onlookers gasped
with derision. It was one thing to have a lickerish sense of victory and the destruction
of an opponent. To take it out on his eight-year-old child was a step too far.
After the final set, the crowd rushed the table tennis equipment and folded
Bradley into it. He was not found until the next week’s church youth group
gathering.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
California
Ballot Initiative Would Create Statewide Public Utility District (Utility Dive)
UPDATE
- Power Restored - Belfair-Focused Outage Needed to Complete Power Pole
Replacement along Highway 3 (Mason PUD 3, Shelton, WA)
Bills
Moving on Klickitat PUD Power, Eye Care (Goldendale Sentinel, WA)
http://www.goldendalesentinel.com/story/2015/03/18/news/bills-moving-on-pud-power-eye-care/5603.html
Flathead
Electric Co-Op’s Power Costs Keep Rising (Hungry Horse News, MT)
Tacoma
Public Utilities Names In-House Candidate Chris Robinson to Head Tacoma Power (Bellingham
Herald, WA)
Op/Ed:
Cost of Cleaner Power Could Take Toll on Low-Income Families (The Hill,
Washington, DC)
Survey
Says: Electric Customers Applaud Utility Service (Intelligent Utility)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Surging Salmon: Kings, Coho, Pinks Coming Back
Strong (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Downstream from Here: Lake Cle Elum Fills Up So
Sockeye Can Begin Their Journey (Yakima
Herald-Republic, WA)
2,000 Dead Snow Geese Fall from the Sky in Idaho
(CNN Wire)
The Race to Save 1,100 Starving Baby Sea Lions
(Mashable)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
California’s
New Water Restrictions: If Drought Lingers, Are They Enough? (Christian Science
Monitor)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
The
Renewable Energy Fight - The battle in Colorado over renewable portfolio
standards is a key front in the national climate debate (National Journal)
Analysis:
IRS Grants Wind Power Developers an Extra 12 Months (Wind Power Monthly)
What
Will Freak Weather Do to Renewable Energy? (New Scientist)
Why
Four Grandmothers Are Champions of Solar Power in the Philippines (Christian
Science Monitor)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Two
Retail Marijuana Shops Now Open in Port Angeles – Washington State cap on
recreational dispensaries inside city limit is met (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Winter
Sets Global Heat Record Despite US East’s Big Chill (KEPR-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Obama
to Order Cuts in Federal Greenhouse Gas Emissions (NY Times)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Feds
Warned Premera of Security Risks Three Weeks Before Cyber Attack (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Target
Agrees to Pay $10 Million to Settle Lawsuit from Data Breach (Reuters)
Internet Explorer, We Hardly Wanted to Know Ye (Washington
Post)
Chrome and Firefox Users Make Better Employees (Gizmodo)
Republicans
Can’t Overturn the FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules Without This Democrat – He’s
Not Playing Along (Washington Post)
Can
U-S Rep. Suzan Delbene Keep Your Fridge from Launching Spam Attacks? (Crosscut
Seattle)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Would
You Trust Facebook with Your Bank Account? (Mashable)
Angry
Birds Maker Bets on Animated Movie as Profit Drops (Reuters)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington
State Auditor’s Home Searched by Federal Agents (Northwest Public Radio)
Washington State Agencies to Plan for a Government Shutdown (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
‘Right to Work’ Fight over Public Employee Unions Heats Up in
Oregon, May Go to 2016 Ballot (Oregonian, Portland)
Rep. Dan Griffey Gives Legislative Update on KMAS Radio, Shelton
(KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Car Stolen in Lacey with Two Children Inside (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Oregon: Driver Videotaping Child in Car Hit Teens
in Crosswalk, Police Say (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
Starbucks CEO Defends ‘Race Together’ after Backlash
(KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Washington State Projects Dust Storms & Fires
for Eastern Washington (KXLY-TV, Spokane, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Video:
Freaky Friday – Solar Eclipse, Supermoon, Spring Equinox
Bamboozled:
Five Barrels of Stolen Bourbon Found in Backyard
King
Richard III to Get Proper Burial 530 Years after His Death
Someone
Keeps Photocopying Their Cat at the University of Wisconsin Library
SONG OF THE DAY
Oklahoma
Outlaws - Drink You Off My Mind
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