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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Columbia Salmon Fishing Gets Easier Thursday – Marks the
second consecutive year of record-for-the-date sockeye salmon returns over
Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland)
Judge Denies Pacific Gas & Electric Request to Dismiss
Charges over Pipeline Safety (SF
Chronicle)
Avista Gets Award for Restoration Work after Windstorm (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
Portland Will Levy ‘Digital Equity’ Fee on Google Fiber
(Oregonian, Portland)
Three Surprising Brain Facts Marketers Should Know about
Email (AdWeek)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Judge Denies Pacific Gas & Electric Request to Dismiss Charges over Pipeline Safety
- Avista Gets Award for Restoration Work after Windstorm
- First New U-S Nuclear Reactor in Almost Two Decades Set to Begin Operating
- Feds Announce $82 Million for Nuclear Energy Research
- Trio of High-Profile Energy Cases Expected to Spark Wave of Litigation
- Columbia Salmon Fishing Gets Easier Thursday – Marks the second consecutive year of record-for-the-date sockeye salmon returns over Bonneville Dam
- Olympic National Forest Celebrates Skokomish Watershed Restoration
- Seattle: Wallingford Community Council Full of S— with P**p Concerns?
- Personalized Power Usage? There’s an App for That
- Portland Will Levy ‘Digital Equity’ Fee on Google Fiber
- Portland Approves its First Google Fiber ‘Hut’
- Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury
- Q&A: What Is Net Neutrality – Why Does It Matter?
- Rep: Upselling Ruins Comcast’s Customer Service Reform Efforts
- Three Surprising Brain Facts Marketers Should Know about Email
- Dueling Income Tax Proposals Divide Olympia Council
- Florida: Boy Snatched by Gator is Presumed Dead; Disney Beaches Close
- Washington State Work Release Inmate Caught In South Dakota – Heading To Shelton Corrections
- Murder Charges Dropped against One Brother in Rural Washington Killings
- Including Washington, Oregon, Idaho – Ten States with the Fastest Job Growth in 2016
- British Columbia: Falling Tree Branch Lands in B-C Supreme Court
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
Judge Denies Pacific Gas & Electric Request to Dismiss
Charges over Pipeline Safety (SF
Chronicle)
Avista Gets Award for Restoration Work after Windstorm (Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA)
First New U-S Nuclear Reactor in Almost Two Decades Set to
Begin Operating (The Energy Collective)
Feds Announce $82 Million for Nuclear Energy Research (Associated Press)
Trio of High-Profile Energy Cases Expected to Spark Wave of Litigation
(American Public Power Association)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Columbia Salmon Fishing Gets Easier Thursday – Marks the
second consecutive year of record-for-the-date sockeye salmon returns over
Bonneville Dam (Oregonian, Portland)
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Olympic National Forest Celebrates Skokomish Watershed
Restoration (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Seattle: Wallingford Community Council Full of S— with P**p
Concerns? (Publicola)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Personalized Power Usage? There’s an App for That (USA Today)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Portland Will Levy ‘Digital Equity’ Fee on Google Fiber (Oregonian,
Portland)
Portland Approves its First Google Fiber ‘Hut’ (Broadband Reports)
Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury (NY Times)
Q&A: What Is Net Neutrality – Why Does It Matter? (Associated Press)
Rep: Upselling Ruins Comcast’s Customer Service Reform
Efforts (Broadband Reports)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Three Surprising Brain Facts Marketers Should Know about Email
(AdWeek)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Dueling Income Tax Proposals Divide Olympia Council (Olympian - Paywall Advisory)
GENERAL NEWS
Florida: Boy Snatched by Gator is Presumed Dead; Disney Beaches
Close (Associated Press)
Washington State Work Release Inmate Caught In South Dakota –
Heading To Shelton Corrections (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Murder Charges Dropped against One Brother in Rural Washington
Killings (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation)
Including Washington, Oregon, Idaho – Ten States with the Fastest
Job Growth in 2016 (Christian Science Monitor)
British Columbia: Falling Tree Branch Lands in B-C Supreme
Court (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation)
FLYING FIGS – DIVERSIONS
Kitten ‘Travels 300 Miles’ in Navy Pilot’s Car Bumper
Drunk Customer Returns to Restaurant the Next Day to Take
Back $1,000 Tip
Russian Sues Ex-Girlfriend for Money He Spent On Her
Monkey Triggers Nationwide Blackout in Kenya
SONG OF THE DAY
The Proclaimers – I Would Walk 500 Miles
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