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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Six Claim Racial Bias in Suit with Utilities in Seattle Public
Utilities Bill-Fixing Scandal (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Amazon
Plans Up to Eleven More Oregon Data Centers If Tax Situation Addressed
(Oregonian, Portland)
Idaho
Regulators Shorten Renewable Power Contracts (Utility Dive)
2014
Snake River Fall Chinook Redd Estimate Highest Total since Surveys Began in
1988 (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
Disaster
on the Slopes: Record-Low Snow Year Continues (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Six Claim Racial Bias in Suit with Utilities in Seattle Public Utilities Bill-Fixing Scandal
- Mason PUD 3 Working to Restore Electricity to Belfair Elementary School
- Editorial: Enloe Project Making Strange Bedfellows
- Is Your Electric Co-op Prepared to Handle a Crisis?
- Bonneville Power Administration Regional Science Bowl – Pacific Northwest High School Students Give Their Brains a Serious Workout
- Western Area Power Administration Budget Request Holds Steady for Fourth Year in a Row
- Warning System for Solar Storms Is Kept on Earth for Now
- 2014 Snake River Fall Chinook Redd Estimate Highest Total since Surveys Began in 1988
- British Columbia: Quesnel Dragon Lake Trout Endangered by Koi Infestation
- Upgrades at Oregon’s Foster Dam Fish Passage Facility Aimed at ESA-Listed Salmonids
- Nile River May Be Running Out of Fish
- Disaster on the Slopes: Record-Low Snow Year Continues
- Could a Pineapple Express Save California from Drought?
- The Dam Truth: How the U-S Army Corps of Engineers Manages Heavy Rain Storms
- House Legislation Would Block Implementation of Waters of the U-S Rule
- Idaho Regulators Shorten Renewable Power Contracts
- Rocky Barker: Idaho Solar Dispute Shouldn’t Be Like Wind War
- Intellectual Property Battles Roil the Wind Power Industry
- The Hottest New Thing in Energy This Year? Wind Power
- California: Interior Secretary Will Dedicate Large Solar Plant
- Public Service Co. of New Mexico Plans 40,000-Panel Solar Farm near Santa Fe
- Voters Favor Renewable Focus
- Energy Smart Industrial: Five Years of Enormous Savings
- Snohomish PUD Sees Energy Use Rise & Fall with the Super Bowl
- Jefferson County Commissioners to Look Again at Marijuana Businesses Moratorium at Monday Meeting
- Oregon Cities Pushing for Power to Tax, Ban Cannabis Sales
- District of Columbia Sees Loophole in Congress’s Move to Halt Marijuana Law
- Power Theft Suspect: Nearly 800 Marijuana Plants Found in Grow Operation Next to Day Care
- Washington State’s Marijuana Law Hurts Idaho Police Recruitment
- Report Says Emotions, Not Science, Rule U-S Climate Change Debate
- Inslee a Student of California’s Carbon-Cap Lessons
- University Of Hawaii Researchers Say Climate Change is Affecting Major Big Island Storms
- Amazon Plans Up to Eleven More Oregon Data Centers If Tax Situation Addressed
- FCC & Net Neutrality: What You Really Need to Know
- Your Old Landline Could Get an Early Retirement
- Virtual Private Networks Dissolve National Boundaries Online, for Work & Movie-Watching
- Washington State Government Asked to Provide Nearly Every Email Ever Sent
- Technicalities: Oregon Governor Kitzhaber Recall Efforts Could Prove Futile, For Now
- Business Owners Voice Frustration over Temporary Port Shutdown
- Mud, Not Flood, Now Primary Worry along Duckabush River
- Is Winter Over?
- Mystery of the ‘Milky Rain’ in Eastern Washington Solved?
- Trade Stories: Building Boats at the Taylor Shellfish Fabrication Shop with Brian Omdahl
- Post Season Mason County High School Basketball
Weltschmerz
• \VELT-shmertz\ • Noun - 1: mental depression or apathy caused by comparison
of the actual state of the world with an ideal state 2: a mood of sentimental
sadness
“Ah,
to live in the world of the 1500’s, when things were simpler…and you knew where
you stood,” sighed the grizzled English lord to his bootblack. His state of
weltschmerz was only slightly tempered by the historic realities of disease,
dirt, body odor, and rampant halitosis.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Six Claim Racial Bias in Suit with Utilities in Seattle
Public Utilities Bill-Fixing Scandal (Seattle Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Mason
PUD 3 Working to Restore Electricity to Belfair Elementary School (Mason PUD 3,
Shelton, WA)
Editorial: Enloe Project Making Strange Bedfellows
(Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune, Oroville, WA)
Is
Your Electric Co-op Prepared to Handle a Crisis? (Electric
Co-op Today)
Bonneville
Power Administration Regional Science Bowl – Pacific Northwest High School
Students Give Their Brains a Serious Workout (Oregonian, Portland)
Western
Area Power Administration Budget Request Holds Steady for Fourth Year in a Row (American
Public Power Association)
Warning System for Solar Storms Is Kept on Earth for Now (NY Times)
FISH & WILDLIFE
2014
Snake River Fall Chinook Redd Estimate Highest Total since Surveys Began in
1988 (Columbia Basin Bulletin)
British
Columbia: Quesnel Dragon Lake Trout Endangered by Koi Infestation (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Upgrades
at Oregon’s Foster Dam Fish Passage Facility Aimed at ESA-Listed Salmonids (Columbia
Basin Bulletin)
Nile
River May Be Running Out of Fish (USA Today)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Disaster
on the Slopes: Record-Low Snow Year Continues (KCPQ-TV, Seattle,
WA)
Could
a Pineapple Express Save California from Drought? (Christian Science Monitor)
The
Dam Truth: How the U-S Army Corps of Engineers Manages Heavy Rain Storms (KOMO-TV,
Seattle, WA)
House
Legislation Would Block Implementation of Waters of the U-S Rule (American
Public Power Association)
RENEWABLE/ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Idaho
Regulators Shorten Renewable Power Contracts (Utility Dive)
Rocky
Barker: Idaho Solar Dispute Shouldn’t Be Like Wind War (Idaho Statesman, Boise)
Intellectual
Property Battles Roil the Wind Power Industry (Renewable
Energy World)
The
Hottest New Thing in Energy This Year? Wind Power (Wired Magazine)
California: Interior Secretary Will Dedicate Large
Solar Plant (KESQ-TV, Palm Springs, CA)
Public Service Co. of New Mexico Plans 40,000-Panel Solar
Farm near Santa Fe (Albuquerque Business First, NM)
Voters
Favor Renewable Focus (Morning Consult)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Energy
Smart Industrial: Five Years of Enormous Savings (Bonneville
Power Administration)
Snohomish
PUD Sees Energy Use Rise & Fall with the Super Bowl (Everett Herald, WA)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Jefferson
County Commissioners to Look Again at Marijuana Businesses Moratorium at Monday
Meeting (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Oregon
Cities Pushing for Power to Tax, Ban Cannabis Sales (Marijuana Business Daily)
District
of Columbia Sees Loophole in Congress’s Move to Halt Marijuana Law (NY Times)
Power
Theft Suspect: Nearly 800 Marijuana Plants Found in Grow Operation Next to Day
Care (KCPQ-TV, Seattle, WA)
Washington
State’s Marijuana Law Hurts Idaho Police Recruitment (KGW-TV, Portland, OR)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Report
Says Emotions, Not Science, Rule U-S Climate Change Debate (Reuters)
Inslee
a Student of California’s Carbon-Cap Lessons (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
University
Of Hawaii Researchers Say Climate Change is Affecting Major Big Island Storms (Associated Press)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Amazon
Plans Up to Eleven More Oregon Data Centers If Tax Situation Addressed (Oregonian,
Portland)
FCC
& Net Neutrality: What You Really Need to Know (CNET News)
Your
Old Landline Could Get an Early Retirement (Washington Post)
Virtual
Private Networks Dissolve National Boundaries Online, for Work &
Movie-Watching (NY Times)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Government Asked to Provide Nearly Every
Email Ever Sent (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Technicalities: Oregon Governor Kitzhaber Recall Efforts Could
Prove Futile, For Now (Northwest Public Radio)
GENERAL NEWS
Business
Owners Voice Frustration over Temporary Port Shutdown (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Mud,
Not Flood, Now Primary Worry along Duckabush River (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Is
Winter Over? (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
Mystery
of the ‘Milky Rain’ in Eastern Washington Solved? (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA)
Trade
Stories: Building Boats at the Taylor Shellfish Fabrication Shop with Brian
Omdahl (Filson Life)
Post
Season Mason County High School Basketball (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
DIVERSIONS
Internet
Trolls Weigh In – Should Vermont Have an Official Latin Motto?
Forgotten
Copy of Magna Carta Found in Scrapbook
Seattle
Police Bike Made Famous by Seahawks’ Bennett Auctioned Off
Grower
Uses Classical Music to Enhance Marijuana Potency
SONG OF THE DAY
Walter
Murphy – A Fifth of Beethoven
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