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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Washington Law Would Let Counties Sell Broadband Service
When Comcast Won’t (Consumerist)
Chelan PUD Grapples with Heavy Electricity Users (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
USDA on Drought “We Don’t Have Very Many Concerns” (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
Lewis County PUD Warns Customers about Phone Scam (KELA
Radio, Centralia, WA)
States Ask Supreme Court to Stay Obama Climate Rules
(Washington Examiner)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Chelan PUD Grapples with Heavy Electricity Users
- Lewis County PUD Warns Customers about Phone Scam
- Yakima Police Say Telephone Scammers Pretend to be Collecting Overdue Power Bills
- Wither Aluminum Smelting's Future in the Northwest?
- Snohomish County PUD Grants Boost Young Engineers, Scientists
- New York Regulators Propose Nuclear Power Mandate in New Clean Energy Plan
- USDA on Drought “We Don’t Have Very Many Concerns”
- California: Water Fill Means Big Folsom Dam Spillway Project Hits Milestone
- Victoria Sewage Treatment Plans Inching Along, But Mayors Not In Harmony
- How Much Is Your Solar Power Worth? The Fight over Solar’s Future
- States Ask Supreme Court to Stay Obama Climate Rules
- Coal Miners, Families Pack Salt Lake Hearing on Regional Haze
- Washington Law Would Let Counties Sell Broadband Service When Comcast Won’t
- Committee Tackles Future of Tacoma’s Click! Cable Network
- As FERC Bolsters Cybersecurity Rules, Critics Cite Lack of Secure Communication Standards
- Report: Facebook Rolling Out New Like Button in a Few Weeks
- Twitter, Facebook & Other Social Media Sites Vie for Sports Fans in Real Time
- Washington State Will Get to Vote on Whether Corporations Are People
- U-S Senate Set to Pass Energy Bill This Week
- FBI Sets Up Checkpoints around Oregon Refuge after Confrontation Turns Deadly
- Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum Shot & Killed While Charging Police, Driver Says
- Mason County Unemployment Up in December
- Wendy's Investigating 'Unusual Activity' on Payment Cards
- City Of Shelton’s Permit Fee Cuts Debated
- Including Olympic College: Nine Washington Community Colleges on List of 150 Best in Country
- Cowlitz Casino Construction Starts despite Lawsuit
- Mammoth Bones Unearthed at Oregon State University
Kaput • \ku-PUT\ • Adjective – 1: utterly finished,
defeated, or destroyed 2: unable to function: useless 3: hopelessly outmoded
I love word origins. Here’s the origin of kaput via
Merriam-Webster Dictionary online:
“Kaput” originated with a card game called piquet that has
been popular in France for centuries. French players originally used the term
“capot” to describe both big winners and big losers. To win all twelve tricks
in a hand was called “faire capot” (“to make capot”), but to lose them all was
known as “être capot” (“to be capot”). German speakers adopted “capot,” but
respelled it “kaputt,” and used it only for losers. When English speakers
borrowed the word from German, they started using “kaput” for things that were
broken, useless, or destroyed.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Chelan PUD Grapples with Heavy Electricity Users (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
Lewis County PUD Warns Customers about Phone Scam (KELA
Radio, Centralia, WA)
Yakima Police Say Telephone Scammers Pretend to be Collecting
Overdue Power Bills (Yakima
Herald-Republic, WA)
Wither Aluminum Smelting's Future in the Northwest? (Northwest
Public Radio)
Snohomish County PUD Grants Boost Young Engineers,
Scientists (Everett Herald, WA)
New York Regulators Propose Nuclear Power Mandate in New
Clean Energy Plan (Utility Dive)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
USDA on Drought “We Don’t Have Very Many Concerns” (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
California: Water Fill Means Big Folsom Dam Spillway Project
Hits Milestone (Sacramento Bee, CA)
Victoria Sewage Treatment Plans Inching Along, But Mayors
Not In Harmony (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
How Much Is Your Solar Power Worth? The Fight over Solar’s
Future (SF Chronicle)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
States Ask Supreme Court to Stay Obama Climate Rules
(Washington Examiner)
Coal Miners, Families Pack Salt Lake Hearing on Regional
Haze (Associated Press)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington Law Would Let Counties Sell Broadband Service
When Comcast Won’t (Consumerist)
Committee Tackles Future of Tacoma’s Click! Cable Network (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA - Paywall
Advisory)
As FERC Bolsters Cybersecurity Rules, Critics Cite Lack of
Secure Communication Standards (Utility Dive)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Report: Facebook Rolling Out New Like Button in a Few Weeks (USA Today)
Twitter, Facebook & Other Social Media Sites Vie for Sports
Fans in Real Time (San Jose Mercury News, CA)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Will Get to Vote on Whether Corporations
Are People (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
U-S Senate Set to Pass Energy Bill This Week (Washington
Examiner)
GENERAL NEWS
FBI Sets Up Checkpoints around Oregon Refuge after Confrontation
Turns Deadly (Reuters)
Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum Shot & Killed While Charging
Police, Driver Says (Oregonian, Portland)
Mason County Unemployment Up in December (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
Wendy's Investigating 'Unusual Activity' on Payment Cards (Associated Press)
City Of Shelton’s Permit Fee Cuts Debated (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Including Olympic College: Nine Washington Community
Colleges on List of 150 Best in Country (Seattle
Times, WA - Paywall Advisory)
Cowlitz Casino Construction Starts despite Lawsuit (KOIN-TV, Portland, OR)
Mammoth Bones Unearthed at Oregon State University (Oregonian,
Portland)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Seahawks Fan Petition Calls for Ban on Seahawks Fan
Petitions
Second Teen Dies after Drinking Racing Fuel Mixed with Mountain
Dew
Woman Finds Cat Wedged in Engine after Trip to Spokane
Man Caught Smuggling Live Birds in 'Groin Area' Aboard
Flight to Miami
SONG OF THE DAY
Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby of Birdland
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