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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
California:
Public Utilities Commission Email Scandal Widens to Involve Southern Cal Edison,
San Onofre Closure (Utility Dive)
Free
Wi-Fi now available in downtown Bainbridge Island – Kitsap PUD Partnership
(Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
One More Try: A Renewed Push to Pass Klamath
Agreements (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
How
Four Brands (and Bob Newhart) Made the Most of College Football’s First Playoff
Championship (AdWeek)
Washington
State Senate Republicans Bring Back Eyman-Style “Super Majority” (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- California: Public Utilities Commission Email Scandal Widens to Involve Southern Cal Edison, San Onofre Closure
- Oregon Transportation Commission Chair Says the Governor Fired Her for Rejecting Coal Subsidy
- Public’s Power – 80 People Attend Two Open Houses on Idaho Power’s Proposed Boardman to Hemingway Power Line
- Minnesota: After Clash over Power Lines, Organic Dairy Cedar Summit Farm Closes
- Energy Information Administration: Wholesale Power Prices Rose across the Nation in 2014
- FERC Conferences to Address Impact of EPA’s Clean Power Plan on Electricity Reliability & Markets
- OSHA Extends Delay in Enforcement for Certain Parts of Its Big New Safety Rule
- Texas: Firefighters Warn Against Makeshift Power Sources
- American Public Power Association’s Policy Makers Council Advocates on Top Priorities for Public Power
- One More Try: A Renewed Push to Pass Klamath Agreements
- Washington State Department of Ecology Releases ‘Fish Consumption’ Rule
- Op/Ed: Wind Energy Hits Headwinds
- Americans Like Alternative Energy But Don’t Understand Costs, Survey Finds “…the caution is that if you inform them, you’re going to get lower support…”
- Dynamic Tidal Power Technology Advances
- Pasco Saves Big from “Energy Star” Schools
- Environment, Not Cash, Encourages L.A. Residents to Save Electricity
- Cree Sees How Many Suits It Takes to Block Rival LED Lightbulbs
- Chart of the Week: The Challenging Banking Climate for Marijuana Businesses
- No Smoke, but Haze around E-Joint
- Seven Unbelievable Things You Could Buy with Colorado’s Weed Tax Revenue
- Energy Department Project Captures & Stores One Million Metric Tons of Carbon
- Car Charging Stations Go Unused in Cowlitz County
- Free Wi-Fi now available in downtown Bainbridge Island – Kitsap PUD Partnership
- Anti-Municipal Broadband Bill Teed Up In Missouri
- This Year’s Y2K? ‘Leap Second’ Threatens to Break the Internet
- How Four Brands (and Bob Newhart) Made the Most of College Football’s First Playoff Championship
- McDonald’s New ‘Signs’ Ad Draw Strong Reactions, Good & Bad
- Facebook Will Now Include AMBER Alerts in the News Feed
- Stop Putting Your Email Address in Your Email Signature
- Washington State Senate Republicans Bring Back Eyman-Style “Super Majority”
- Washington Senate Opens with Democratic Insurgency – Roach Wins Senate President Pro-Tem over Sheldon
- U-S Rep. Kilmer Cops a Coveted House Appropriations Committee Seat
- Patient Walks Away From Staff at Mason General Hospital, Found in Canyon Nearby
- Teen Driver Admits to Smoking Marijuana before Kitsap County Crash Killing 3
- The Night It All Ended: Oregon Ducks’ Resiliency Runs out in Title Game Loss to Ohio State
- Police Deploy Pepper Spray, Gas to Disperse Ohio Football Fans
Ichthyomania
• \ick-thee-oh-MANE-ee-yah/ • An excessive fascination with fish.
Ichthyomancy
1. Divination by means of the heads or entrails of fishes. 2. Divination by
examining the heads and/or entrails of fish for prophetic signs or processing
the next fish caught.
Bradford
was in heaven. As a rabid ichtyomnaniac, working in the fish processing plant
let him play with his semi-frozen charges as if they were ventriloquist dummies.
Hi Folks! He would exclaim while working the little fish mouths at lunch. It
was when he started using ichthyomancy in an attempt to predict the annual
salmon runs in the Columbia River that his co-workers started to avoid him like
week-old chum.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
California:
Public Utilities Commission Email Scandal Widens to Involve Southern Cal Edison,
San Onofre Closure (Utility Dive)
Oregon
Transportation Commission Chair Says the Governor Fired Her for Rejecting Coal
Subsidy (Oregonian, Portland)
Public’s
Power – 80 People Attend Two Open Houses on Idaho Power’s Proposed Boardman to Hemingway
Power Line (Baker City Herald, OR)
Minnesota: After Clash over Power Lines, Organic Dairy Cedar
Summit Farm Closes (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, MN)
Energy
Information Administration: Wholesale Power Prices Rose across the Nation in 2014
(Utility Dive)
FERC
Conferences to Address Impact of EPA’s Clean Power Plan on Electricity
Reliability & Markets (National Law Review)
OSHA
Extends Delay in Enforcement for Certain Parts of Its Big New Safety Rule
(American Public Power Association)
Texas: Firefighters Warn Against Makeshift
Power Sources (KRGV-TV, Rio Grande Valley, TX)
American
Public Power Association’s Policy Makers Council Advocates on Top Priorities
for Public Power (American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
One More Try: A Renewed Push to Pass Klamath
Agreements (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Washington
State Department of Ecology Releases ‘Fish Consumption’ Rule (South Sound
Business Journal, WA)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Op/Ed:
Wind Energy Hits Headwinds (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/wp/2015/01/12/wind-energy-hits-headwinds/
Americans
Like Alternative Energy But Don’t Understand Costs, Survey Finds “…the caution
is that if you inform them, you’re going to get lower support…” (Columbus
Business First, OH)
Dynamic Tidal Power Technology Advances (Renewable
Energy World)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Pasco
Saves Big from “Energy Star” Schools (KEPR-TV,
Tri-Cities, WA)
Environment,
Not Cash, Encourages L.A. Residents to Save Electricity (Los Angeles Times, CA)
Cree
Sees How Many Suits It Takes to Block Rival LED Lightbulbs (Bloomberg News)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Chart
of the Week: The Challenging Banking Climate for Marijuana Businesses (Marijuana
Business Daily)
No
Smoke, but Haze around E-Joint (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/health/with-the-e-joint-the-smoke-clears-.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Seven
Unbelievable Things You Could Buy with Colorado’s Weed Tax Revenue (Mashable)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Energy
Department Project Captures & Stores One Million Metric Tons of Carbon (Breaking
Energy)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Car
Charging Stations Go Unused in Cowlitz County (Everett Herald, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Free
Wi-Fi now available in downtown Bainbridge Island – Kitsap PUD Partnership
(Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, WA)
Anti-Municipal
Broadband Bill Teed Up In Missouri (Multi Channel News)
This
Year’s Y2K? ‘Leap Second’ Threatens to Break the Internet (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
How
Four Brands (and Bob Newhart) Made the Most of College Football’s First Playoff
Championship (AdWeek)
McDonald’s
New ‘Signs’ Ad Draw Strong Reactions, Good & Bad (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Facebook
Will Now Include AMBER Alerts in the News Feed (Washington Post)
Stop
Putting Your Email Address in Your Email Signature (Slate Magazine)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington
State Senate Republicans Bring Back Eyman-Style “Super Majority” (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer)
Washington
Senate Opens with Democratic Insurgency – Roach Wins Senate President Pro-Tem
over Sheldon (Northwest Public Radio)
U-S
Rep. Kilmer Cops a Coveted House Appropriations Committee Seat (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Patient Walks Away From Staff at Mason General
Hospital, Found in Nearby Canyon (KBKW Radio,
Aberdeen, WA)
Teen Driver Admits to Smoking Marijuana before Kitsap
County Crash Killing Three (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle,
WA)
The Night It All Ended: Oregon Ducks’ Resiliency
Runs out in Title Game Loss to Ohio State (Oregonian, Portland – so what’s the
deal with the YELLOW confetti?)
Police Deploy Pepper Spray, Gas to Disperse Ohio Football
Fans (Reuters)
DIVERSIONS
Local
Politician’s Threat to Sue Maryland Newspaper Backfires – The Moral: Don’t
argue with someone who buys their ink by the barrel!
Black
Lab Likes to Take Solo Bus Ride to Her Dog Park Stop
Coin
Dealer Pays Nearly $2.6 Million for Rare American Penny
Minnesotan
Who Lived on Yacht, Collected Aid, Gets 21 Months in Prison
SONG OF THE DAY
The
Clash - I Fought the Law
Bobby
Fuller Four - I Fought the Law
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