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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Editorial: Bonneville Power Administration Back on the Block
– This Time, Sale of Transmission System Is Proposed (Eugene Register-Guard,
OR)
Industry Group Tries to Drop Out of Children’s Climate
Lawsuit (Washington Post)
Residential Solar Industry in the United States Stumbles
(Breaking Energy)
Fun at Grant PUD – Solar Cars Take to the Track (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Montana Republican Greg Gianforte, Charged with Assault,
Awaits Fate in Vote (NY Times)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Editorial: Bonneville Power Administration Back on the Block – This Time, Sale of Transmission System Is Proposed
- Trump Budget Proposal Would Sell Federal Transmission Assets
- Power Hit in Downtown Portland Affected Operations in Southwest Washington
- Natural Gas Boom, Cyber Threats Drive FERC's Need for Budget Boost
- Oregon: Timber Company Plans Lawsuit Over Elliott Forest
- Finances, Costs, Expansion – Mason County Commission Briefed on Belfair Sewer
- Where Nestlé Guzzles Water, Michigan Neighbors Take Exception
- Residential Solar Industry in the United States Stumbles
- Nevada Assembly Clear Bill Boosting Renewables Mandate to 80% by 2040
- Wine & Weed? Oregon Vineyards Try Pot Farming
- Industry Group Tries to Drop Out of Children’s Climate Lawsuit
- Looking for Trump’s Climate Policy? Try the Energy Department
- Fun at Grant PUD – Solar Cars Take to the Track
- Someone Impersonated Them to Slam the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules. Now They Want Answers
- Before Twitter & Facebook, There Was Morse Code – Remembering Social Media’s True Inventor
- Montana Republican Greg Gianforte, Charged with Assault, Awaits Fate in Vote
- Tacoma: She Runs This Town Now. So Who Is Elizabeth Pauli?
- Voters in Washington State Hated Trump & Clinton More Than in Any Other State
- Taxing Muni Bonds: Excuses, Excuses, and More Excuses
- Woman Dies after Fall from I-5 Overpass Onto Vehicle
- Authorities Stress Water Safety during Sweltering, Sunny Memorial Day Weekend
- Man Survives 1,000-Foot Fall into Oregon’s Crater Lake Caldera
- Shelton City Leaders OK $30,000 for Peewee Reese League Baseball World Series
Conundrum • \kuh-NUN-drum\ • Noun - 1: a riddle whose answer
is or involves a pun 2a: a question or problems having only a conjectural
answer b: an intricate and difficult problem.
Cut, borrow, or tax
Congressional conundrum
The best we can do?
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Editorial: Bonneville Power Administration Back on the Block
– This Time, Sale of Transmission System Is Proposed (Eugene Register-Guard,
OR)
Trump Budget Proposal Would Sell Federal Transmission Assets
(American Public Power Association)
Power Hit in Downtown Portland Affected Operations in Southwest
Washington (KATU-TV, Portland, OR
Natural Gas Boom, Cyber Threats Drive FERC's Need for Budget
Boost (Washington Examiner)
ENVIRONMENTAL FOOT LOCKER
Oregon: Timber Company Plans Lawsuit Over Elliott Forest (Associated
Press)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
Finances, Costs, Expansion – Mason County Commission Briefed
on Belfair Sewer (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Where Nestlé Guzzles Water, Michigan Neighbors Take
Exception (NY Times)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
Residential Solar Industry in the United States Stumbles (Breaking
Energy)
Nevada Assembly Clear Bill Boosting Renewables Mandate to 80%
by 2040 (Utility Dive)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Wine & Weed? Oregon Vineyards Try Pot Farming (KOIN-TV, Portland,
OR)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Industry Group Tries to Drop Out of Children’s Climate
Lawsuit (Washington Post)
Looking for Trump’s Climate Policy? Try the Energy
Department (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – DRIVING ON SUNSHINE
Fun at Grant PUD – Solar Cars Take to the Track (Columbia
Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Someone Impersonated Them to Slam the FCC’s Net Neutrality
Rules. Now They Want Answers (Washington Post)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Before Twitter & Facebook, There Was Morse Code – Remembering
Social Media’s True Inventor (Washington Post)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
Montana Republican Greg Gianforte, Charged with Assault,
Awaits Fate in Vote (NY Times)
Tacoma: She Runs This Town Now. So Who Is Elizabeth Pauli? (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Voters in Washington State Hated Trump & Clinton More
Than in Any Other State (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Taxing Muni Bonds: Excuses, Excuses, and More Excuses (American
Public Power Association)
GENERAL NEWS
Woman Dies after Fall from I-5 Overpass Onto Vehicle (News
Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Authorities Stress Water Safety during Sweltering, Sunny Memorial
Day Weekend (Oregonian, Portland)
Man Survives 1,000-Foot Fall into Oregon’s Crater Lake
Caldera (Associated Press)
Shelton City Leaders OK $30,000 for Peewee Reese League
Baseball World Series (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
HOGS (TO) HEAVEN – DIVERSIONS
Red Nose Day Is Today: What Exactly Is It?
'Spoon Bandit' Bathes in 1,500 Spoons He 'Stole' from School
Neil Armstrong’s Moon Bag Could Fetch $4 Million at Auction
Texas Wants You to Hunt Feral Hogs from Hot Air Balloons
SONG OF THE DAY
The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
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