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SHELTON FORECAST & WEATHER ALERTS
Heavy rain Thursday. Possible accumulations between one-half and one inch.
HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Seattle-Based Conservation Group Weighs Potential Carbon-Tax Measure (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Seattle City Council Wants Puget Sound Energy to Stop Using Coal-Fired Facility (Seattle Met)
Op/Ed: Idea to Sell BPA Is Tired, Makes No Economic Sense (Oregonian, Portland)
Washington State Legislature Is Planning for the World of 5G (Crosscut Seattle)
Bill to Reverse Hirst Decision Passes Out of Washington State Senate, Again (Washington State Wire, Olympia)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Seattle City Council Wants Puget Sound Energy to Stop Using Coal-Fired Facility
- Op/Ed: Idea to Sell BPA Is Tired, Makes No Economic Sense
- Grant PUD Commissioners Discuss Dam Refurbishment
- Oregon Delays Vote On Portland General Electric Fuel-Tank Sale Opposed by Environmentalists
- Grays Harbor PUD Says That Outages Were Less in 2016
- Jefferson PUD to Check Out Bank Property – Utility Has Grown from 8 to 45 Employees Since 2013
- 2017 Utility Customer Study: Evaluating the Reliability of Utility Providers
- Spawning Time, When Sockeye Salmon Change From Blue to Red
- Bill to Reverse Hirst Decision Passes Out of Washington State Senate, Again
- Rivers Rage across the West as Snow Thaws, Days Warm
- 20 Megawatt Solar Project to Be Built in Richland
- Will California's 100% Renewables Goal Survive the Political Process?
- Washington State among Those Suing Trump Administration over Energy Standards
- Oregon Defends Legal Marijuana Market to Feds
- Grays Harbor County OKs Six-Month Moratorium on Marijuana Production, Process Operations
- Jeff Sessions Personally Asked Congress to Let Him Prosecute Medical-Marijuana Providers
- Seattle-Based Conservation Group Weighs Potential Carbon-Tax Measure
- How Retiring Nuclear Power Plants May Undercut U-S Climate Goals
- After President Trump's Withdrawal from Paris, Nukes Are More Crucial Than Ever
- Texas Governor Fights Cities’ Protection of Trees as ‘Socialistic’
- Washington State Legislature Is Planning for the World of 5G
- Verizon Completes $4.48 Billion Purchase of Yahoo, Ending an Era
- How to Repurpose Content for Your Blog & Beyond: A Plan for Creators
- How to Make Bullet Points Compelling, Not Compulsory
- Third Washington State Special Legislative Session Called Likely
- Did Inslee Really 'Kickstart' Washington Budget Negotiations?
- Former State Senator Don Benton Says He Wasn’t Pushed Out of the EPA. “Nothing But Fake News”
- Mason 35th District Lawmakers Support Budget Reform
- Washington, DC: Rifle-Wielding Gunman Wounds Lawmaker, Killed by Cops
- Son of Fatal Kitsap County Fire Victim Charged with Illegal Marijuana Grow
- City of Shelton Privatizes Garbage Pickup
- Mason County Commissioners Support Overpass at Lynch Road-Highway 101 Crossing
- Taking the Banking Out of Blood Banking to Save Lives in Remote Places
- Mason County: Olympic Mountain Owners Lose Sleep to Make Their Top-Shelf Ice Cream
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Ambrose wandered aimlessly through the wasteland that was his backyard. A stunted tree with a crazily angled swing off a cracked limb; an abandoned fish pond filled with frogs eggs and mosquito larvae; and his barren garden plot, half an acre of rocky soil that looked as if God had scarified it as a part of a biblical curse. “Hmm, maybe potatoes this year,” he pondered.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Seattle City Council Wants Puget Sound Energy to Stop Using Coal-Fired Facility (Seattle Met)
Op/Ed: Idea to Sell BPA Is Tired, Makes No Economic Sense (Oregonian, Portland)
Grant PUD Commissioners Discuss Dam Refurbishment (Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, WA)
Oregon Delays Vote On Portland General Electric Fuel-Tank Sale Opposed by Environmentalists (Portland Business Journal, OR)
Grays Harbor PUD Says That Outages Were Less in 2016 (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Jefferson PUD to Check Out Bank Property – Utility Has Grown from 8 to 45 Employees Since 2013 (Port Townsend Leader, WA)
2017 Utility Customer Study: Evaluating the Reliability of Utility Providers (Utility Dive)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Spawning Time, When Sockeye Salmon Change From Blue to Red (NY Times)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
Bill to Reverse Hirst Decision Passes Out of Washington State Senate, Again (Washington State Wire, Olympia)
Rivers Rage across the West as Snow Thaws, Days Warm (Associated Press)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
20 Megawatt Solar Project to Be Built in Richland (KNDO/KNDU,-TV, Tri-Cities, WA)
Will California's 100% Renewables Goal Survive the Political Process? (Utility Dive)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Washington State among Those Suing Trump Administration over Energy Standards (South Sound Business Examiner)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Oregon Defends Legal Marijuana Market to Feds (Oregonian, Portland)
Grays Harbor County OKs Six-Month Moratorium on Marijuana Production, Process Operations (Aberdeen Daily World, WA)
Jeff Sessions Personally Asked Congress to Let Him Prosecute Medical-Marijuana Providers (Washington Post)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Seattle-Based Conservation Group Weighs Potential Carbon-Tax Measure (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
How Retiring Nuclear Power Plants May Undercut U-S Climate Goals (NY Times)
After President Trump's Withdrawal from Paris, Nukes Are More Crucial Than Ever (Scientific American)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – DRIVING ON SUNSHINE
Texas Governor Fights Cities’ Protection of Trees as ‘Socialistic’ (Courthouse News Service)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Washington State Legislature Is Planning for the World of 5G (Crosscut Seattle)
Verizon Completes $4.48 Billion Purchase of Yahoo, Ending an Era (NY Times)
MARKETING & MEDIA
How to Repurpose Content for Your Blog & Beyond: A Plan for Creators (Social Media Examiner)
How to Make Bullet Points Compelling, Not Compulsory (Grammarly Blog)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
Third Washington State Special Legislative Session Called Likely (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Did Inslee Really 'Kickstart' Washington Budget Negotiations? (Northwest Public Radio)
Former State Senator Don Benton Says He Wasn’t Pushed Out of the EPA. “Nothing But Fake News” (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Mason 35th District Lawmakers Support Budget Reform (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
Washington, DC: Rifle-Wielding Gunman Wounds Lawmaker, Killed by Cops (Associated Press)
Son of Fatal Kitsap County Fire Victim Charged with Illegal Marijuana Grow (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)
City of Shelton Privatizes Garbage Pickup (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Mason County Commissioners Support Overpass at Lynch Road-Highway 101 Crossing (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Taking the Banking Out of Blood Banking to Save Lives in Remote Places (Oregonian, Portland)
Mason County: Olympic Mountain Owners Lose Sleep to Make Their Top-Shelf Ice Cream (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
That's No Normal Runner: Bear Crosses Through Colorado Race
Report: 25 Percent of Adults Swim While Having Diarrhea, 20 Percent Pee in Pool
Police: Naked Man Goes On Rampage inside Antiques Store
Giant Flying Turkeys Once Roamed Australia Because of Course They Did
SONG OF THE DAY
Antonin Dvorak - New World Symphony
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