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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Higher Energy Costs Accompany Bitter Cold Snap in U-S
(Associated Press)
Analysts Blame Tesla after Solar Installations Fall Sharply
Nationwide (Pacific Business News, HI)
Op/Ed: Rep Drew MacEwen – Washington State Can Have Energy
Independence without Economic Damage from Carbon Tax (Olympian, WA – Paywall
Advisory)
Trio of Net Neutrality Challenges Coming from Washington
State (KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
British Columbia Supreme Court Grants Injunction against
Fish Farm Protesters (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Higher Energy Costs Accompany Bitter Cold Snap in U-S
- Utility Workers, Feds Ready Major New Push to Fix Puerto Rico's Grid
- Power Restored at Disneyland after Outage Halts Rides
- Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line – Extending a Hand
- Tillamook Transmission Line Proposal Meets with Controversy
- Wyoming: Lower Valley Energy Energizes Buried Lines Connecting Town of Teton Village
- PUD 1 Power Outage Planned for Part of Mason County
- Bonneville Power Administration Celebrates Formation of New Tribal Utility
- National Grid Seeks Permit to Bring Canadian Power to Northeast U-S
- British Columbia Supreme Court Grants Injunction against Fish Farm Protesters
- Audio: How Fishermen Are Faring in Washington Months after Atlantic Salmon Spill
- Washington State Bill Could Provide Economic Assistance from Marbled Murrelet Protections
- Coyotes Are Colonizing Cities. Step Forward the Urban Hunter.
- Private-Public Partnership for Conservation: Examples from Oregon, Hawaii, & Maine
- Analysts Blame Tesla after Solar Installations Fall Sharply Nationwide
- Electric Heat Pumps Are Key to Low-Carbon Homes and Buildings
- California Marijuana Start-Ups, Shut Out from Banks, Turn to Private Backing
- Op/Ed: Rep Drew MacEwen – Washington State Can Have Energy Independence without Economic Damage from Carbon Tax
- Video Gaming Disorder Could Soon Be Recognized by the World Health Organization
- Trio of Net Neutrality Challenges Coming from Washington State
- Where Were Netflix & Google in the Net-Neutrality Fight?
- Now That The FCC Is Doing Away with Title II for Broadband, Will Verizon Give Back Taxpayer Subsidies It Got Under Title II?
- How to Repurpose Blog Content into Short-Form Social Media Updates
- Instagram: Here’s How to Tag Someone in a Story Post
- The Library of Congress No Longer Wants All the Tweets
- IRS Says Many Who Prepaid Property Taxes May Still Face Cap on Deductions
- Clark County Treasurer: No, You Can’t Pay Property Tax Early
- Rain Returns to the Lowlands, Heavy Snow Makes Travel Tough over Mountain Passes
- Mason County Unemployment Rises
- Census Data Highlights Pacific Northwest Population Growth
- Repairs on Capitol Lake Dam to Start Next Week
- Here's What Alexa Users Asked Most Over the Holidays
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Corpulent Casper Gutman ponderously waddled across the room.
The long tube tied to his water pipe wobbled like an obscene umbilical cord as
he drew grey, swirling smoke from the bowl on the many-faceted contraption
through its length. He grunted heavily as he backed into his overstuffed chair,
the tassel on his canted fez draped across one ear. Only the dark, heavy,
leather hassock protected his dainty, beslippered feet from the desecration of
touching the floor. “Now,” he rasped to the impatient Sam Spade, “I assume you
are here to speak with me about ‘the bird’.”
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Higher Energy Costs Accompany Bitter Cold Snap in U-S (Associated
Press)
Utility Workers, Feds Ready Major New Push to Fix Puerto
Rico's Grid (Washington Examiner)
Power Restored at Disneyland after Outage Halts Rides (CNN)
Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line – Extending a Hand
(Baker City Herald, OR)
Tillamook Transmission Line Proposal Meets with Controversy
(Capital Press)
Wyoming: Lower Valley Energy Energizes Buried Lines
Connecting Town of Teton Village (Associated Press)
PUD 1 Power Outage Planned for Part of Mason County (Olympian,
WA – Paywall Advisory)
Bonneville Power Administration Celebrates Formation of New
Tribal Utility (Bonneville Power Administration)
National Grid Seeks Permit to Bring Canadian Power to Northeast
U-S (Associated Press)
FISH & WILDLIFE
British Columbia Supreme Court Grants Injunction against
Fish Farm Protesters (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Audio: How Fishermen Are Faring in Washington Months after Atlantic
Salmon Spill (National Public Radio)
Washington State Bill Could Provide Economic Assistance from
Marbled Murrelet Protections (KXRO Radio, Aberdeen, WA)
Coyotes Are Colonizing Cities. Step Forward the Urban
Hunter. (NY Times)
ENVIRONMENTAL FOOT LOCKER
Private-Public Partnership for Conservation: Examples from
Oregon, Hawaii, & Maine (Atlantic Magazine)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
Analysts Blame Tesla after Solar Installations Fall Sharply
Nationwide (Pacific Business News, HI)
CONSERVATION & EFFICIENCY
Electric Heat Pumps Are Key to Low-Carbon Homes and
Buildings (The Energy Collective)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
California Marijuana Start-Ups, Shut Out from Banks, Turn to
Private Backing (NY Times)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Op/Ed: Rep Drew MacEwen – Washington State Can Have Energy
Independence without Economic Damage from Carbon Tax (Olympian, WA – Paywall
Advisory)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – SEETHING STEW OF SCIENCE
Video Gaming Disorder Could Soon Be Recognized by the World
Health Organization (USA Today)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Trio of Net Neutrality Challenges Coming from Washington State
(KIRO Broadcasting, Seattle, WA)
Where Were Netflix & Google in the Net-Neutrality Fight?
(Atlantic Magazine)
Now That The FCC Is Doing Away with Title II for Broadband,
Will Verizon Give Back Taxpayer Subsidies It Got Under Title II? (TechDirt)
PUBLIC RELATIONS, MARKETING & MEDIA
How to Repurpose Blog Content into Short-Form Social Media
Updates (Social Media Examiner)
Instagram: Here’s How to Tag Someone in a Story Post (AdWeek)
The Library of Congress No Longer Wants All the Tweets (NY
Times)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
IRS Says Many Who Prepaid Property Taxes May Still Face Cap on
Deductions (Washington Post)
Clark County Treasurer: No, You Can’t Pay Property Tax Early
(Vancouver Columbian, WA)
http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/dec/27/clark-county-treasurer-no-you-cant-pay-property-tax-early/
GENERAL NEWS
Rain Returns to the Lowlands, Heavy Snow Makes Travel Tough over
Mountain Passes (KCPQ-TV, Seattle/Tacoma, WA)
Mason County Unemployment Rises (Mason Web TV, Shelton, WA)
Census Data Highlights Pacific Northwest Population Growth (Northwest
Public Radio)
Repairs on Capitol Lake Dam to Start Next Week (Olympian, WA
– Paywall Advisory)
Here's What Alexa Users Asked Most Over the Holidays
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
This Haircut Was So Bad the Stylist Was Arrested
Why This Halifax Bus Driver Plays the Ukulele for Passengers
Get Bach to Work: Company Orchestras a German Tradition
People Are Putting Anti-Bird Spikes on Trees to Protect
Their Fancy Cars, & Humanity Has Hit an All-Time Low
SONG OF THE DAY
Johann Sebastian Bach –Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
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