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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
This Is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town
(Politico)
Snow Study Shows Dwindling Snowpack on 9 of 10 Western U-S
Peaks (News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
Alcoa Restart? Tariffs Give Hope, But It’s Too Early to Tell
(Wenatchee World, WA)
Clark County Man Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Clean Energy
Company Scheme (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Coastal Research Increasingly Depends on Citizen Scientists
(Christian Science Monitor)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- This Is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town
- Alcoa Restart? Tariffs Give Hope, But It’s Too Early to Tell
- Leader of Longview Data Processing Center Plans Fighting Conspiracy, Copyright Infringement Charges
- SmartHub Application Empowers Mason PUD 3 Electric Customers
- NRG to Shutter Three California Gas Plants
- Power Grid Operators Say They Can Meet Customers’ Energy Needs
- FERC Chair Discloses Brain Tumor, Surgery, Says He Will Continue Work
- Tennessee Valley Authority Proposes Grid Access Fee, Lower Energy Costs in Rate Revamp
- National Hydropower Association Launches HydroWorks campaign, Asks for Industry Action
- West Coast Waters Returning to Normal but Salmon Catches Lagging
- Genetically Engineered Salmon May Be Coming to a Store Near You
- Clark County Man Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Clean Energy Company Scheme
- Are Renewable Portfolio Standards on the Way Out? Three Ballot Initiatives Say Otherwise
- Los Angeles Eyes Greater Role for Community Broadband
- Getting There: The Electric-Vehicle Buzz Is Real
- Snow Study Shows Dwindling Snowpack on 9 of 10 Western U-S Peaks
- Sheesh – Japan Wants More Women in Construction. Pink Toilets May Not Be Helping.
- Coastal Research Increasingly Depends on Citizen Scientists
- FCC Says Ex-Google, Apple Engineers’ Startup Launched Illegal Satellites
- Mason, Thurston Counties Get Millions of Dollars in State Capital Funds for Public Projects
- Tim Eyman Files Lawsuit against Legislature, Claiming I-940 & HB 3003 Should Appear on the Ballot
- ‘This Is Not an Oops!’ Deadly Crashes Involving DUI Drivers Continue to Climb in Washington
- Kitsap, Mason School Administrators Plan for March 14 Protests
- U-S Northeast Braces for Third Nor’easter in Two Weeks
- Richard Sherman Says He Loves the 12s, But Felt ‘Vengeful’ Toward Seahawks for Letting Him Go
Scilicet ● \SKEE-lih-ket\ ● Adverb – That is to say: to wit,
namely.
Say goodbye to Richard Sherman, as he leaves the Seattle
Seahawks Professional NFL football team (scilicet: the ‘Hawks) for the rival
San Francisco (scilicet: Santa Clara) 49er’s.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
This Is What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town
(Politico)
Alcoa Restart? Tariffs Give Hope, But It’s Too Early to Tell
(Wenatchee World, WA)
Leader of Longview Data Processing Center Plans Fighting
Conspiracy, Copyright Infringement Charges (Longview Daily News, WA)
SmartHub Application Empowers Mason PUD 3 Electric Customers
(KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
NRG to Shutter Three California Gas Plants (Utility Dive)
Power Grid Operators Say They Can Meet Customers’ Energy
Needs (Washington Examiner)
FERC Chair Discloses Brain Tumor, Surgery, Says He Will
Continue Work (Utility Dive)
Tennessee Valley Authority Proposes Grid Access Fee, Lower
Energy Costs in Rate Revamp (Chattanooga Times-Free Press, TN)
National Hydropower Association Launches HydroWorks
campaign, Asks for Industry Action (Renewable Energy World)
FISH & WILDLIFE
West Coast Waters Returning to Normal but Salmon Catches
Lagging (Phys.Org)
Genetically Engineered Salmon May Be Coming to a Store Near
You (Grist Online)
RENEWABLE ENERGY & SELF STORAGE
Clark County Man Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Clean Energy
Company Scheme (Vancouver Columbian, WA)
Are Renewable Portfolio Standards on the Way Out? Three Ballot
Initiatives Say Otherwise (Utility Dive)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Los Angeles Eyes Greater Role for Community Broadband (Broadband
Reports)
I SING THE CAR ELECTRIC
Getting There: The Electric-Vehicle Buzz Is Real (Spokesman
Review, Spokane, WA)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
Snow Study Shows Dwindling Snowpack on 9 of 10 Western U-S Peaks
(News Tribune, Tacoma, WA – Paywall Advisory)
PUBLIC RELATIONS, MARKETING & MEDIA
Sheesh – Japan Wants More Women in Construction. Pink Toilets
May Not Be Helping. (NY Times)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – SEETHING STEW OF SCIENCE
Coastal Research Increasingly Depends on Citizen Scientists (Christian
Science Monitor)
FCC Says Ex-Google, Apple Engineers’ Startup Launched
Illegal Satellites (Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
Mason, Thurston Counties Get Millions of Dollars in State
Capital Funds for Public Projects (KMAS Radio, Shelton, WA)
Tim Eyman Files Lawsuit against Legislature, Claiming I-940
& HB 3003 Should Appear on the Ballot (Washington State Wire, Olympia, WA)
GENERAL NEWS
‘This Is Not an Oops!’ Deadly Crashes Involving DUI Drivers
Continue to Climb in Washington (KCPQ-TV, Seattle/Tacoma, WA)
http://q13fox.com/2018/03/11/deadly-crashes-involving-drunk-drivers-continue-to-climb-in-washington/
Kitsap, Mason School Administrators Plan for March 14
Protests (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall Advisory)
U-S Northeast Braces for Third Nor’easter in Two Weeks (Reuters)
Richard Sherman Says He Loves the 12s, But Felt ‘Vengeful’
Toward Seahawks for Letting Him Go (KCPQ-TV, Seattle/Tacoma, WA)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Daycare Owner Sentenced to 21 Years for Giving Kids
Melatonin While She Went Tanning & to Gym
‘10 Things I Hate About You’ House on the Market for $1.6
Million
Historic, Seattle-Made Electric Bass Guitar Sold for $23,000
Winner of $560 Million Powerball Can Keep Her Name Private, Judge
Rules
SONG OF THE DAY
20 Amazing Bass Lines of All Time! (Instantly Recognizable)
Queen – Another One Bites the Dust
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