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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
The Switchboard: Obama Urges End of State Laws Limiting Municipal
Broadband (Washington Post)
Washington
State Gov. Inslee Says Fund Education, Transportation, Clean Energy (Associated Press)
JD
Power: Electric Utilities Achieve Highest Level of Business Customer
Satisfaction since 2009 (Yahoo! Finance)
Turning Waste into Energy in Oregon: City of Gresham
Wastewater Treatment Plant (Renewable Energy World)
Marijuana
Listening Tour: Oregon Liquor Control Commission Announces Two Stops in Eastern
Oregon (Oregonian, Portland)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- JD Power: Electric Utilities Achieve Highest Level of Business Customer Satisfaction since 2009
- Alaska: Falling Oil Prices Lead to 12 Percent Power Rate Drop in Interior
- Feds Seek to Bring Nuclear Waste to Idaho for Research
- Benton PUD Expands Its Low Income Discount to More Seniors
- Public Power Council Elects Officers & Board Members for 2015-2016
- Montana: Columbia Falls Aluminum – Who Are the Responsible Parties?
- New NRC Chair to Focus on Safety, Commission Structure
- FERC Pushes Utilities to Adopt Protection Standards for Both Cyber & Physical Security
- Will a Takeover of Hawaiian Electric Bring Relief from the Nation’s Highest Electricity Prices?
- Winter Rations Prompt Coal Use in Hydropower-Rich Tajikistan
- Enormous Rainbow Trout Caught in Idaho
- White House Environmental Adviser to Resign
- Turning Waste into Energy in Oregon: City of Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Net Metering for Rooftop Solar: How to Fix the Problems
- Reverse Net-Metering? California Penalizes Certain Types of Energy Efficiency
- Cheap Solar Power Emerging From Mineral Named for Russian Count
- Nova Scotia Power Biomass Project in Cape Breton Raising Green Concerns
- Marijuana Listening Tour: Oregon Liquor Control Commission Announces Two Stops in Eastern Oregon
- Washington State Municipals that Block Cannabis Should be Blocked from Revenue Sharing. Fair is Fair
- Maligned & Banned: The American Comeback of Industrial Hemp
- Complications Abound for Hemp Farming in Pacific Northwest
- The Greenest Governor in the Country Tells Grist about His Big Washington State Climate Plan
- Former Mayor Sam Adams to Leave Portland for D-C Climate Job
- The Switchboard: Obama Urges End of State Laws Limiting Municipal Broadband
- Obama Wants to Help Make Your Internet Faster & Cheaper. This is His Plan: Public Broadband
- Obama Aims to Unleash Broadband Boost
- Eugene Church Offers to Scrap Cell Tower for $750,000
- Cloud Company Basho Says Goodbye to Boston, Shifts Headquarters to Bellevue
- Cable: Google Doesn’t Need Title II for Pole Access
- Facebook Ad Clicks Are Shifting to Mobile, so Why Aren’t Conversions?
- Nissan’s Reddit “Ask Me Anything” Went Horribly Wrong – PR Plants?
- It’s Official: ESPN Scored Cable’s Highest Ratings Ever with College Football Championship
- Coke & Pepsi Shrink Their Can Sizes
- Washington State Gov. Inslee Says Fund Education, Transportation, Clean Energy
- Washington State Senate’s 2/3rds Rule Could Doom New Taxes, Inslee Carbon Plan
- Testifying to Lawmakers in Olympia May Get Easier with Remote Testimonies
- Rep. Dan Griffey Discusses First Week as New Legislator on KMAS Radio, Shelton
- Op/Ed: Dan Evans & the Efficacy of Bipartisanship
- China Joins Nations Banning U-S Poultry & Eggs after Benton County Avian Influenza Outbreak
- WSDOT Comes Under Fire for Report Warning of ‘Catastrophic Failure’ with Bertha Repair Pit
- Thurston County Approves Emergency Jail Repairs
- OPEC Won’t Cut Production Despite Plummeting Oil Prices
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• \lawn-GURR \ • Noun - A dull & tedious passage or section (as of a book,
play, or musical composition) — usually used in plural.
Cool
story about coded messages to the French Underground in Woirld War II prior to
the Normandy invasions on D-Day:
In
preparation for Operation Overlord, the BBC had signaled to the French
Resistance that the opening lines of the 1866 Verlaine poem “Chanson d’Automne”
were to indicate the start of D-Day operations. The first three lines of the
poem, Long sobs of autumn violins, meant that Operation Overlord was to start
within two weeks. These lines were broadcast on 1 June 1944. The next set of
lines, wound my heart with a monotonous languor, meant that it would start
within 48 hours & that the resistance should begin sabotage operations
especially on the French railroad system; these lines were broadcast on 5 June
at 23:15.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
JD
Power: Electric Utilities Achieve Highest Level of Business Customer
Satisfaction since 2009 (Yahoo! Finance)
Alaska:
Falling Oil Prices Lead to 12 Percent Power Rate Drop in Interior (Alaska
Dispatch)
Feds
Seek to Bring Nuclear Waste to Idaho for Research (Associated Press)
Benton
PUD Expands Its Low Income Discount to More Seniors (Tri-City Herald, WA)
Public
Power Council Elects Officers & Board Members for 2015-2016 (Public Power
Council)
Montana:
Columbia Falls Aluminum – Who Are the Responsible Parties? (Hungry Horse News,
MT)
New
NRC Chair to Focus on Safety, Commission Structure (Utility Dive)
FERC
Pushes Utilities to Adopt Protection Standards for Both Cyber & Physical
Security (Breaking Energy)
Will
a Takeover of Hawaiian Electric Bring Relief from the Nation’s Highest
Electricity Prices? (Forbes Magazine)
Winter
Rations Prompt Coal Use in Hydropower-Rich Tajikistan (National Geographic
Magazine)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Enormous Rainbow Trout Caught in Idaho (KGW TV, Portland, OR)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
White
House Environmental Adviser to Resign (National Journal)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Turning Waste into Energy in Oregon: City of Gresham Wastewater
Treatment Plant (Renewable Energy World)
Net Metering for Rooftop Solar: How to Fix the Problems (The
Energy Collective)
Reverse
Net-Metering? California Penalizes Certain Types of Energy Efficiency (Forbes Magazine)
Cheap
Solar Power Emerging From Mineral Named for Russian Count (San Jose Mercury
News, CA)
Nova Scotia Power Biomass Project in Cape Breton Raising
Green Concerns (Halifax Citizen, Canada)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Marijuana
Listening Tour: Oregon Liquor Control Commission Announces Two Stops in Eastern
Oregon (Oregonian, Portland)
Washington
State Municipals that Block Cannabis Should be Blocked from Revenue Sharing.
Fair is Fair (Washington State Wire, Olympia, WA)
Maligned & Banned: The American Comeback of Industrial
Hemp (SF Chronicle, CA)
Complications Abound for Hemp Farming in Pacific Northwest (Northwest
Public Radio)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
The
Greenest Governor in the Country Tells Grist about His Big Washington State Climate
Plan (Grist Online)
Former
Mayor Sam Adams to Leave Portland for D-C Climate Job (Portland Business
Journal, OR)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The Switchboard: Obama Urges End of State Laws Limiting
Municipal Broadband (Washington Post)
Obama
Wants to Help Make Your Internet Faster & Cheaper. This is His Plan: Public
Broadband (Washington Post)
Obama
Aims to Unleash Broadband Boost (Politico)
Eugene Church Offers to Scrap Cell Tower for $750,000 (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Cloud
Company Basho Says Goodbye to Boston, Shifts Headquarters to Bellevue (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Cable: Google Doesn’t Need Title II for Pole Access (Broadband Reports)
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook
Ad Clicks Are Shifting to Mobile, so Why Aren’t Conversions? (AdWeek)
Nissan’s
Reddit “Ask Me Anything” Went Horribly Wrong – PR Plants? (Mashable)
It’s
Official: ESPN Scored Cable’s Highest Ratings Ever with College Football
Championship (AdWeek)
Coke
& Pepsi Shrink Their Can Sizes (Associated
Press)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington
State Gov. Inslee Says Fund Education, Transportation, Clean Energy (Associated Press)
Washington
State Senate’s 2/3rds Rule Could Doom New Taxes, Inslee Carbon Plan (Crosscut
Seattle)
Testifying to Lawmakers in Olympia May Get Easier with
Remote Testimonies (KNDU/KNDO , Tri-Cities, WA)
Rep. Dan Griffey Discusses First Week as New Legislator on KMAS
Radio, Shelton (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Op/Ed:
Dan Evans & the Efficacy of Bipartisanship (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
GENERAL NEWS
China Joins Nations Banning U-S Poultry &
Eggs after Benton County Avian Influenza Outbreak (Tri-City Herald, WA)
WSDOT Comes Under Fire for Report Warning of ‘Catastrophic
Failure’ with Bertha Repair Pit (KIRO-TV, Seattle)
Thurston County Approves Emergency Jail Repairs (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
OPEC Won’t Cut Production Despite Plummeting Oil Prices (Associated
Press)
DIVERSIONS
NY
Times: 52 Places to Go in 2015 – Hey Look, Bend Oregon is on this List
Man Caught at Chinese Customs Wearing 94 iPhones as Long
Underwear
Sir
Patrick Stewart Perfectly Demonstrates the Most Annoying People on Planes
National
Dress Your Pet Day: ‘It’s Important That They be Comfortable’
SONG OF THE DAY
Victor
Young - Around the World in 80 Days, Soundtrack Suite
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