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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
High Court Sides with Property Owners in Wetlands Case –
Says Decisions Can Be Tested in Court (Associated
Press)
Pacific Northwest Bill for Fish & Wildlife Hits $757
Million (Electric Co-op Today)
Avista Seeks Idaho Electric Rate Increase (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Appeals Court Rips Federal Review of Contested Echanis
Oregon Wind Project (E&E News)
Verizon, Unions Agree to Pay Raises, New Jobs to End Strike (Reuters)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Avista Seeks Idaho Electric Rate Increase
- Eugene Water & Electric Board Selects Internal Candidate, Frank Lawson, to Serve as Next General Manager
- Lawsuit Still ‘Hanging Over’ Former Peace River Dam Protest Campers
- IRS Is Urged To Withdraw Proposal Changing Definition of “Political Subdivision” for Purposes of Tax-Exempt Bonds
- Seattle University Students Power Village in Africa
- Huge Benefits from California Regional Market Expansion, Studies Show
- Shameless in Seattle
- Woody Guthrie Sang Praises of Dam on Columbia in 1941
- Tennessee Valley Authority is First Mover for Small Modular Reactor Early Site Permit
- Op/Ed: Xcel Energy Wants to Rewrite Your Electricity Bill
- Why a Power Grid Attack Is a Nightmare Scenario
- Where Free Wind Meets Cheap Gas in U-S, Power Dynamics Changing
- No Hero Stands Alone: Storm Soldiers II
- When Kids Teach Adults on Electrical Safety
- A Simulation of What 100,000 Volts Does to Human Flesh
- Pacific Northwest Bill for Fish & Wildlife Hits $757 Million
- Op/Ed: Snake River Dams Vital to Renewable Energy Future
- River without a Dam - Early Estimates Disappointing for 2016 Fraser River Sockeye Returns
- High Court Sides with Property Owners in Wetlands Case – Says Decisions Can Be Tested in Court
- Chelan County Water Managers Make Play for Alpine Lakes
- Warm Spring Melting Washington’s Snowpack While Contributing to Other Problems
- Appeals Court Rips Federal Review of Contested Echanis Oregon Wind Project
- U-S Senator: Taxpayer-Funded Solar Plant Lights Birds on Fire
- Minnesota: Solar Garden Support – Devil in the Details
- Cloud-seeding program to continue in Idaho
- Tesla Will Celebrate Gigafactory Grand Opening in July
- Verizon, Unions Agree to Pay Raises, New Jobs to End Strike
- Forget Your Cable Provider – Verizon Just Hinted at Nationwide 5G Home Broadband
- What Makes Facebook Live Videos So Mind-Blowingly Bad
- Tenants Don’t Like Order to ‘Like’ Landlord on Facebook – Or Else
- State Commissioner of Public Lands Race Has Crowded Field
- Troy Kelley Scheduled to be Back in Court, Feds Could Signal Plans
- New Manager to Oversee Snohomish County Public Records Requests
- Mason County Sheriff: Dog Nabs Man in Possession of Drugs, Guns after Chase
- Washington State is Losing Its Signature Views. Can We Restore Them?
Foozle • \FOO-zul\ • Verb – To manage or play awkwardly:
bungle
Watching Abercrombie in aerobics class was like watching a
large, ponderous bear attempt ballet…only not as good. Just about every move
barked out by the harridan leading the class led to a foozled step by
Abercrombie. Many times he endangered his fellow classmates with flailing arms
or a mistaken left step when a right one was ordered.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Avista Seeks Idaho Electric Rate Increase (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Eugene Water & Electric Board Selects Internal
Candidate, Frank Lawson, to Serve as Next General Manager (Eugene Register-Guard, OR)
Lawsuit Still ‘Hanging Over’ Former Peace River Dam Protest
Campers (Victoria Times Colonist,
BC)
IRS Is Urged To Withdraw Proposal Changing Definition of “Political
Subdivision” for Purposes of Tax-Exempt Bonds (American Public Power
Association)
Seattle University Students Power Village in Africa (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
Huge Benefits from California Regional Market Expansion,
Studies Show (National Resources Defense Council)
Shameless in Seattle (Northwest Clean Energy)
Woody Guthrie Sang Praises of Dam on Columbia in 1941 (Associated Press)
Tennessee Valley Authority is First Mover for Small Modular
Reactor Early Site Permit (The Energy Collective)
Op/Ed: Xcel Energy Wants to Rewrite Your Electricity Bill
(Denver Post, CO)
Why a Power Grid Attack Is a Nightmare Scenario (the Hill,
Washington, DC)
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/281494-why-a-power-grid-attack-is-a-nightmare-scenario
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/281494-why-a-power-grid-attack-is-a-nightmare-scenario
Where Free Wind Meets Cheap Gas in U-S, Power Dynamics
Changing (Bloomberg News)
No Hero Stands Alone: Storm Soldiers II (Transmission &
Distribution World)
When Kids Teach Adults on Electrical Safety (Electric Co-op Today)
A Simulation of What 100,000 Volts Does to Human Flesh (Gizmodo)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Pacific Northwest Bill for Fish & Wildlife Hits $757
Million (Electric Co-op Today)
Op/Ed: Snake River Dams Vital to Renewable Energy Future (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
River without a Dam - Early Estimates Disappointing for 2016
Fraser River Sockeye Returns (Victoria
Times Colonist, BC)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
High Court Sides with Property Owners in Wetlands Case –
Says Decisions Can Be Tested in Court (Associated
Press)
Chelan County Water Managers Make Play for Alpine Lakes (Associated Press)
Warm Spring Melting Washington’s Snowpack While Contributing
to Other Problems (Vancouver
Columbian, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Appeals Court Rips Federal Review of Contested Echanis Oregon
Wind Project (E&E News)
U-S Senator: Taxpayer-Funded Solar Plant Lights Birds on
Fire (Washington Examiner)
Minnesota: Solar Garden Support – Devil in the Details
(Duluth News Tribune, MN)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Cloud-seeding program to continue in Idaho (Associated Press)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Tesla Will
Celebrate Gigafactory Grand Opening in July (Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Verizon, Unions Agree to Pay Raises, New Jobs to End Strike (Reuters)
Forget Your Cable Provider – Verizon Just Hinted at
Nationwide 5G Home Broadband (The Motley Fool)
MARKETING & MEDIA
What Makes Facebook Live Videos So Mind-Blowingly Bad (Slate
Magazine)
Tenants Don’t Like Order to ‘Like’ Landlord on Facebook – Or
Else (Associated Press)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
State Commissioner of Public Lands Race Has Crowded Field (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA)
Troy Kelley Scheduled to be Back in Court, Feds Could Signal
Plans (Northwest Public Radio)
New Manager to Oversee Snohomish County Public Records
Requests (Everett Herald, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Mason County Sheriff: Dog Nabs Man in Possession of Drugs,
Guns after Chase (KMAS Radio, Shelton,
WA)
Washington State is Losing Its Signature Views. Can We
Restore Them? (Cliff Mass Weather Bog)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
These Are the Dumb Questions People in Your State Google Most
Dr. Heimlich, 96, Uses His Maneuver to Save Choking Woman
Massive Alligator Takes an Afternoon Stroll on a Golf Course
Anthropologist Follows Trail of Century-Old Hobo Graffiti
http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/may/30/anthropologist-follows-trail-of-century-old-hobo-graffiti/
SONG OF THE DAY
Arlo Guthrie – Hobo’s Lullaby
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