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SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER
ALERTS
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE
STORIES
Tunnel
Collapses at Washington Nuclear Waste Plant; No Radiation Released (Reuters)
Washington
Businesses Hope to Kill Inslee’s Carbon Cap (Crosscut Seattle)
Washington
State Ponders Bill That Would Create an Office of Broadband Access (GovTech)
Still
No Budget Deal Halfway through Washington’s Special Session (Northwest Public
Radio)
U-S
Fishing Industry Retracted a Bit in 2015 – $208 Billion in Sales (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Man Posing as Utility Worker Tries to Enter Gresham Homes, Police Say
- Human Error Cause of Grant PUD Outage
- Few Use Jefferson PUD Low-Income Help
- Idaho Falls Maintenance Crew Scrambles to Help Lower Valley Energy
- U-S Fishing Industry Retracted a Bit in 2015 – $208 Billion in Sales
- Troublesome Dams in Mill Creek Fixed by the ‘Beaver Deceiver’
- Tesla to Begin Selling Solar Roof Tiles
- Washington Businesses Hope to Kill Inslee’s Carbon Cap
- Washington State Ponders Bill That Would Create an Office of Broadband Access
- Senators Want FCC Chair to Explain Why Online Comment System Crashed
- Bitcoin Surges to All-Time High Above $1,700
- Amazon’s Echo Show Is a Giant Phone for Your Kitchen Counter
- How Tiny Bozeman, Montana, Became a Booming Tech Town
- Current FCC rules bar Sinclair from owning both KOMO and KCPQ – That could change
- Still No Budget Deal Halfway through Washington’s Special Session
- Seattle Mayor Drops Out of Race after Sex Abuse Claims
- James Comey Is Out at the F.B.I. – Here’s What Happens Next
- Tunnel Collapses at Washington Nuclear Waste Plant; No Radiation Released
- 3.4 Quake Adds to Swarm West Of
- Postal Service, Citing Losses, Seeks Higher Stamp
- City of Shelton to Reconfigure Franklin Between Safeway & Transit
- Oregon May Allow Drivers to Choose Nonbinary, Rather Than Male or Female, for Licenses
Man
Posing as Utility Worker Tries to Enter Gresham Homes, Police Say (KGW-TV,
Portland, OR)
Human Error
Cause of Grant PUD Outage (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Few Use
Jefferson PUD Low-Income Help (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
Idaho
Falls Maintenance Crew Scrambles to Help Lower Valley Energy (Bonneville Power
Administration)
FISH & WILDLIFE
U-S
Fishing Industry Retracted a Bit in 2015 – $208 Billion in Sales (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Troublesome
Dams in Mill Creek Fixed by the ‘Beaver Deceiver’ (Everett Herald, WA)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Tesla to
Begin Selling Solar Roof Tiles (USA Today)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION
VAULT
Washington
Businesses Hope to Kill Inslee’s Carbon Cap (Crosscut Seattle)
TECHNOLOGY &
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington
State Ponders Bill That Would Create an Office of Broadband Access (GovTech)
Senators
Want FCC Chair to Explain Why Online Comment System Crashed (Consumerist)
Bitcoin
Surges to All-Time High Above $1,700 (Reuters)
Amazon’s
Echo Show Is a Giant Phone for Your Kitchen Counter (C/NET News)
How
Tiny Bozeman, Montana, Became a Booming Tech Town (Fast Company)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Current
FCC rules bar Sinclair from owning both KOMO and KCPQ – That could change (Seattle
Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
Still
No Budget Deal Halfway through Washington’s Special Session (Northwest Public
Radio)
Seattle
Mayor Drops Out of Race after Sex Abuse Claims (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
James
Comey Is Out at the F.B.I. – Here’s What Happens Next (NY Times)
GENERAL NEWS
Tunnel Collapses
at Washington Nuclear Waste Plant; No Radiation Released (Reuters)
3.4
Quake Adds to Swarm West Of Seattle (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
Postal
Service, Citing Losses, Seeks Higher Stamp Prices (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall
Advisory)
City of
Shelton to Reconfigure Franklin Between Safeway & Transit Center (Mason Web
TV, Shelton, WA)
Oregon
May Allow Drivers to Choose Nonbinary, Rather Than Male or Female, for Licenses
(Oregonian, Portland)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER –
DIVERSIONS
This Brewery
Used 50,000 Liters of Human Urine to Make Its Beer – Um, as Fertilizer
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