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Weather
Forecast for March 30, 2015
Small
Craft Advisory for Puget Sound & Hood Canal
Will
This Summer Be Warmer Than Normal? – I believe the probability of a warm summer
in the Pacific Northwest is quite high (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Probe
of Back-Channel Dealing Continues at California Public Utilities Commission
(Sacramento Bee, CA)
Governor's
Signature Could Trigger Data Center Boom in Rural Oregon (Oregonian, Portland)
Washington
State Attorney General Tells High Court: Nebraska, Oklahoma Shouldn’t Pick on
Colorado Pot Law (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Seattle
Mayor Bans City Funding for Indiana Travel (KCPQ-TV, Seattle,
WA)
Editorial:
Thumbs Up To Benton PUD’s Community Solar Project (Tri-City Herald, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Probe of Back-Channel Dealing Continues at California Public Utilities Commission
- Nation’s Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play for Green Energy Money
- Op/Ed: A Transition from Coal to Clean Energy
- Clallam PUD Meeting Schedule, Budget Expectations in Building New Headquarters in Carlsborg
- Transactive Energy: Enabling a More Intelligent, Interactive Grid
- Op/Ed: Power Grid Is Protected – Your Say
- How APS, APPA, And NRECA Would Design a 'Blank' Electricity Market
- Audubon Announces Intent to Sue Corps over Plan to Cull Cormorants from Columbia River Estuary
- Salmon BiOp Case: Feds File Cross-Motion Following Challengers’ Request for Summary Judgment
- Judge Rules McKenzie River Salmon Hatchery Releases Sufficient to Protect Wild Fish
- Drought, Early Spring Warmth Force Oregon Agriculture to Prepare for Tough Year – Or Years
- Difficult Choices – Meager Snowpack Complicates Oregon’s Water Balancing Act
- Sultan River Basin: Snow Depth Measured at Zero, But Rainfall Makes Up for It
- Historically Small Sierra Snowpack, Seen Up Close, another Bad Sign in California Drought
- Editorial: Thumbs Up To Benton PUD’s Community Solar Project
- California's Shift toward Renewables Makes Energy Harder to Manage
- Why Going “Off the Grid” May Not Actually be Such a Good Idea
- Making Solar Work for You
- New Jersey: Wind Power or Hot Air? Foes Question Christie’s Shift on Clean Energy
- Report: Half of All Pacific Northwest Hospitals Cut Energy Consumption
- Water Heater Bill Clears U-S Senate, on to House
- An Energy App Startup's Unusual Bid to Make Money from California's Wholesale Electricity Market
- Washington State Attorney General Tells High Court: Nebraska, Oklahoma Shouldn’t Pick on Colorado Pot Law
- Moses Lake Zoning Proposal for Marijuana Production & Processing Fails
- Washington State Marijuana Grower Suggests New Businesses Start Small
- Portland Workshop Set to Guide Would-Be Pot-Preneurs
- After Legalization, Marijuana Events Fighting for a Foothold in Portland
- What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Wi-Fi
- Governor's Signature Could Trigger Data Center Boom in Rural Oregon
- Goldendale Lawmaker Seeks Permanent Tax Exemption for Internet Access
- New Home, No Broadband? Prepare to Negotiate
- Apple TV 'Skinny' Package Likely to Accelerate Cord Cutting
- The Campaign to Make National Parks Relevant to Millennials
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Trout Derby Hooks Anglers of All Sizes
- Are You a Millennial Boss? Here's How to Work With Boomers and Xers
- Seattle Mayor Bans City Funding for Indiana Travel
- In Delaying Vote on Loretta Lynch as Attorney General, GOP Is in a Quandary
- Port Angeles Man Sentenced for Collecting Dead Grandmother's Benefits
- State Takes Step toward Fining CenturyLink for 911 Outage
- Steep Costs of Inmate Phone Calls Are Under Scrutiny
- Germanwings Co-Pilot Had Been Treated for ‘Suicidal Tendencies,’ Authorities Say
Panjandrum
• \pan-JANN-drum\ • Noun - A powerful personage or pretentious official.
Like
potentates of old, the city council ordered its members to wear an official
uniform: powdered wig, “Elizabethan Collar” (no, not the pet-type collar), and
black, silk robes. The group of pretentious panjandrums would then hold court
on weighty topics: such as animal control ordinances, official holiday
pronouncements, and the designation of mead as the official city beverage. Bartholomew’s
sartorial secret was safe. That is until the day he suffered a seizure during
the debate over the official city tree. It was found by the attending emergency
medical technicians that the emperor truly wore no clothes (other than his
uniform.)
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Probe
of Back-Channel Dealing Continues at California Public Utilities Commission (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Nation’s
Biggest Nuclear Firm Makes a Play for Green Energy Money “…looking for policy
support that every other technology receives…that produces zero-carbon
electricity with the exception of nuclear…” (Associated
Press)
Op/Ed:
A Transition from Coal to Clean Energy (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Clallam
PUD Meeting Schedule, Budget Expectations in Building New Headquarters in Carlsborg
(Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Transactive
Energy: Enabling a More Intelligent, Interactive Grid (Bonneville Power Administration)
Op/Ed:
Power Grid Is Protected – Your Say (USA Today)
How
APS, APPA, And NRECA Would Design a 'Blank' Electricity Market – SEPA asks
stakeholders to design the "51st State." Here are the utility
proposals (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Audubon Announces Intent to Sue Corps over Plan to
Cull Cormorants from Columbia River Estuary (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Salmon BiOp Case: Feds File Cross-Motion
Following Challengers’ Request for Summary Judgment (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Judge Rules McKenzie River Salmon Hatchery
Releases Sufficient to Protect Wild Fish (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Drought,
Early Spring Warmth Force Oregon Agriculture to Prepare for Tough Year – Or
Years (Oregonian, Portland)
Difficult
Choices – Meager Snowpack Complicates Oregon’s Water Balancing Act (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Sultan
River Basin: Snow Depth Measured at Zero, But Rainfall Makes Up for It (Everett
Herald, WA)
Historically
Small Sierra Snowpack, Seen Up Close, another Bad Sign in California Drought (Fresno
Bee, CA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Editorial:
Thumbs Up To Benton PUD’s Community Solar Project (Tri-City Herald, WA)
California's
Shift toward Renewables Makes Energy Harder to Manage (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Why
Going “Off the Grid” May Not Actually be Such a Good Idea (Washington Post)
Making
Solar Work for You (American Public Power Association)
New
Jersey: Wind Power or Hot Air? Foes Question Christie’s Shift on Clean Energy (Washington
Post)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Report:
Half of All Pacific Northwest Hospitals Cut Energy Consumption (Portland
Business Journal, OR)
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2015/03/report-half-of-all-nw-hospitals-cut-energy.html
Water
Heater Bill Clears U-S Senate, on to House (Electric Co-op
Today)
An
Energy App Startup's Unusual Bid to Make Money from California's Wholesale
Electricity Market (Forbes Magazine)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Washington
State Attorney General Tells High Court: Nebraska, Oklahoma Shouldn’t Pick on Colorado
Pot Law (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Moses
Lake Zoning Proposal for Marijuana Production & Processing Fails (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Washington
State Marijuana Grower Suggests New Businesses Start Small (Oregon Public
Broadcasting)
Portland
Workshop Set to Guide Would-Be Pot-Preneurs (Portland Business Journal, OR)
After
Legalization, Marijuana Events Fighting for a Foothold in Portland (Oregonian,
Portland)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Wi-Fi (New York Magazine)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Governor's
Signature Could Trigger Data Center Boom in Rural Oregon (Oregonian, Portland)
Goldendale
Lawmaker Seeks Permanent Tax Exemption for Internet Access (Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
New
Home, No Broadband? Prepare to Negotiate (USA Today)
Apple
TV 'Skinny' Package Likely to Accelerate Cord Cutting (San Jose Mercury News,
CA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
The
Campaign to Make National Parks Relevant to Millennials (Mashable)
Sacramento
Municipal Utility District’s Trout Derby Hooks Anglers of All Sizes (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Are
You a Millennial Boss? Here's How to Work With Boomers and Xers (AdWeek)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Seattle
Mayor Bans City Funding for Indiana Travel (KCPQ-TV, Seattle,
WA)
In
Delaying Vote on Loretta Lynch as Attorney General, GOP Is in a Quandary (NY Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Port Angeles Man Sentenced for Collecting Dead
Grandmother's Benefits (Associated Press)
State Takes Step toward Fining CenturyLink for 911
Outage (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Steep Costs of Inmate Phone Calls Are Under
Scrutiny (NY Times)
Germanwings Co-Pilot Had Been Treated for
‘Suicidal Tendencies,’ Authorities Say (NY Times)
DIVERSIONS
'God
She's Beautiful': College Basketball Star Left Red-Faced as He Forgets
Microphone is Still Running & Remarks on Pretty Reporter
3D
Printing with Cheese is Here ... And it Stinks
Oregon
Home Demolished after Diesel Mistakenly Dumped into Its Basement
Trevor
Noah Set to Replace Jon Stewart on 'Daily Show'
SONG OF THE DAY
Bob
Seger - Beautiful Loser
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