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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Washington State Senator Cantwell Slams House Speaker Ryan
Over Grid Cybersecurity in Energy Bill Talks (Utility Dive)
Energy Demands in North Central Washington State Drop from
Record Highs (North Central Washington Life, East Wenatchee, WA)
Former Snoqualmie PUD General Manager Pleads Guilty
(Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Oregon Lawmakers Craft Bill Targeting Comcast’s Unpaid Taxes
(Oregonian, Portland)
British Columbians Pay Tax on the Carbon Tax – One Vernon
City Councilor Isn’t Happy About It (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Energy Demands in North Central Washington State Drop from Record Highs
- Power Restored for 20,000 Seattle City Light Customers
- Lewis County PUD Warns of Phone Scam
- Power Line Falls, Sparks Fire at Redmond’s Bright Wood Mill
- Public Power Council Elects Officers & Board Members for 2017-2018
- New York: Entergy’s Indian Point Nuclear Plant to Shut Down in 2021
- New Obama Report Warns of Changing ‘Threat Environment’ for the Electricity Grid
- Moniz: Energy Department Needs New ‘National Security’ Powers
- Pioneer Cabin Tree in California Felled by Storms
- Former Snoqualmie PUD General Manager Pleads Guilty
- New Vermont GOP Governor Sticking with 90 Percent Renewable Goal
- France: GE Throws in Tidal Towel
- British Columbians Pay Tax on the Carbon Tax – One Vernon City Councilor Isn’t Happy About It
- Oregon Lawmakers Craft Bill Targeting Comcast’s Unpaid Taxes
- Computer System Troubles Plague Tacoma Community College, State Community Colleges
- Op/Ed: The Real Story About Broadband in Rural Montana
- United Kingdom: Church Spires to Get Broadband Transmitters in New Government Drive to Connect Remote Communities
- Twitter Boots Ex-Pharma Exec Martin Shkreli for Harassment
- Washington State Senator Cantwell Slams House Speaker Ryan Over Grid Cybersecurity in Energy Bill Talks
- Montana State Officials Use Personal Emails for Government Business
- Things Washington Politicians (And Journalists) Should Stop Saying in 2017
- Elma Teen Dies in SR 3 Head-On Collision South of Allyn
- Load Restrictions on Shelton Streets Take Effect Today
- Snow Returns Tuesday
- Portland’s Frigid Naughty Bits: No Pants MAX Ride Postponed Due to Winter Weather
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capitalized) – 1: Of or relating to the river Styx 2: extremely dark, gloomy,
or forbidding
Donetello awoke from his fitful slumber; confused and
disoriented. The stygian gloom; the shuddering movement of his seat. All were
swept away when his seatmate pulled the eyeshades from his face. His nightmare
of a flight to nowhere was replaced with the nightmare of a flight packed with
screaming and fussy children on their way to Disneyland.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Energy Demands in North Central Washington State Drop from
Record Highs (North Central Washington Life, East Wenatchee, WA)
Power Restored for 20,000 Seattle City Light Customers (KING-TV,
Seattle, WA)
Lewis County PUD Warns of Phone Scam (KELA Radio, Centralia,
WA)
Power Line Falls, Sparks Fire at Redmond’s Bright Wood Mill
(KTVZ-TV, Bend, OR)
Public Power Council Elects Officers & Board Members for
2017-2018 (Public Power Council, Portland, OR)
New York: Entergy’s Indian Point Nuclear Plant to Shut Down in
2021 (Utility Dive)
New Obama Report Warns of Changing ‘Threat Environment’ for
the Electricity Grid (Washington Post)
Moniz: Energy Department Needs New ‘National Security’
Powers (Washington Examiner)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Pioneer Cabin Tree in California Felled by Storms (British
Broadcasting Corporation)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
Former Snoqualmie PUD General Manager Pleads Guilty (Ellensburg
Daily Record, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
New Vermont GOP Governor Sticking with 90 Percent Renewable
Goal (Associated Press)
France: GE Throws in Tidal Towel (renews)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
British Columbians Pay Tax on the Carbon Tax – One Vernon City
Councilor Isn’t Happy About It (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Oregon Lawmakers Craft Bill Targeting Comcast’s Unpaid Taxes
(Oregonian, Portland)
Computer System Troubles Plague Tacoma Community College,
State Community Colleges (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Op/Ed: The Real Story About Broadband in Rural Montana (The Missoulian,
MT)
United Kingdom: Church Spires to Get Broadband Transmitters in
New Government Drive to Connect Remote Communities (The Telegraph, UK)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Twitter Boots Ex-Pharma Exec Martin Shkreli for Harassment (Associated
Press)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Washington State Senator Cantwell Slams House Speaker Ryan Over
Grid Cybersecurity in Energy Bill Talks (Utility Dive)
Montana State Officials Use Personal Emails for Government
Business (Associated Press)
Things Washington Politicians (And Journalists) Should Stop
Saying in 2017 (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory – I vote for the
terms “yet” ‘Yet to be found’ & “still” ‘still under investigation, still
on the loose, etc”)
GENERAL NEWS
Elma Teen Dies in SR 3 Head-On Collision South of Allyn (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Load Restrictions on Shelton Streets Take Effect Today (KMAS
Radio, Shelton, WA)
Snow Returns Tuesday (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Portland’s Frigid Naughty Bits: No Pants MAX Ride Postponed
Due to Winter Weather (KOIN-TV, Portland, OR)
HURRAY FOR RAISINETS – DIVERSIONS
Are Nestlé’s Raisinet Boxes “Recklessly” Under-Filled?
‘Stallions’ as a Nickname at a Kentucky High School is Being
Viewed as Offensive
South Puget Sound Community College Prepares to Offer Craft
Brewing & Distilling Degree
‘Dumpster Fire’ Is the American Dialect Society’s 2016 Word
of the Year
SONG OF THE DAY
The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
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