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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Court-Mandated Overspill Angers Lawmakers Including
Newhouse; Inland Power Rates to Jump (iFiberOne News, Ephrata, WA)
Tesla Recalls Almost Half the Cars It Ever Built – Shares
Tank & Musk’s Billions Shrink (NBC News)
‘Maybe Someone Dies’: Facebook VP Justified Bullying,
Terrorism as Costs of Network’s ‘Growth’ (Washington Post)
Douglas PUD’s 2018 Fiber Expansion Project Underway
(iFiberOne News, Ephrata, WA)
Californians Are Embracing Recycled Drinking Water, So Why
Isn’t Sacramento? (Sacramento Bee, CA)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Court-Mandated Overspill Angers Lawmakers Including Newhouse; Inland Power Rates to Jump
- Chelan PUD freezes applications for cryptocurrency
- Three Struggling Nuclear Plants Need an ‘Emergency’ Government Rescue, Company Pleads
- New Owner of North Carolina Dams Wants Power Sale Forced on Duke Energy
- Deer Rescued From Hydroelectric Power Plant in Nevada
- Power Grid War Games Crash Social Media
- Help! A Smart Meter’s Turned My Husband into a Power-Crazed Penny Pincher
- These Women Taught Depression-Era Americans to Use Electricity
- News Release: What Would You Pay to Save Salmon?
- Prominent Washington Fishing Guide Convicted in Disability Fraud Scheme
- Douglas PUD’s 2018 Fiber Expansion Project Underway
- Could Enemies Sabotage Undersea Cables Linking the World?
- As Atlanta Seeks to Restore Services, Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise
- Under Armour Says 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts Breached
- RUS Takes a New Approach to Broadband Loan Applications
- Tesla Recalls Almost Half the Cars It Ever Built – Shares Tank & Musk’s Billions Shrink
- Wenatchee: Wirelessly Charging Electric Bus Goes Live after Easter
- New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Florence
- U-S Utilities Look to Electric Cars as Their Savior amid Decline in Demand
- Californians Are Embracing Recycled Drinking Water, So Why Isn’t Sacramento?
- Exxon Flops in Bid to Kill Climate-Fraud Probe
- ‘Maybe Someone Dies’: Facebook VP Justified Bullying, Terrorism as Costs of Network’s ‘Growth’
- Facebook Employees Lash Out over ‘This Leak #$%^’
- Woods Family Sells Wenatchee World to Wick Communications
- 10 Email Phrases That Make You Sound Unprofessional
- Oregon, Other Marijuana-Legal States Want Meeting with U-S Attorney General
- Wine-Related Firms Look to Uncork Opportunities in Marijuana
- Californians to Take Their Coffee with a Cancer Warning
- Brands Need to Join the 21st Century & Tap into Radio Advertising
- U-S Ninth Appeals Court Judge Reinhardt Known as the ‘Liberal Lion’, Dies
- Doubts Raised That Massive Hanford Plant Nuclear Waste Treatment Could Open By 2022
- As Swimming Season Nears, How Clean Is the Water at Your Favorite Beach?
- La Nina is Doomed
Rube Goldberg • \ROOB-GOLD-berg\ • Adjective: Accomplishing by
complex means what seemingly could be done simply; also: characterized by such
complex means
The process of setting gasoline seems to spring fully formed
from a small, black box. Gertrude knew through personal investigation that it
was more of a Rube Goldberg operation, initiated by the first seaboard landing
at on an artificial nest at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, tripping a
wire attached to a bowling ball, set on rails, which rolled onto a teeter
totter, which flipped a switch, which turned on a light bulb, which woke a hen,
which laid an egg…….
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Court-Mandated Overspill Angers Lawmakers Including
Newhouse; Inland Power Rates to Jump (iFiberOne News, Ephrata, WA)
Chelan PUD freezes applications for cryptocurrency (Lake
Chelan Mirror, WA)
Three Struggling Nuclear Plants Need an ‘Emergency’
Government Rescue, Company Pleads (Washington Post)
New Owner of North Carolina Dams Wants Power Sale Forced on
Duke Energy (Associated Press)
Deer Rescued From Hydroelectric Power Plant in Nevada
(Associated Press)
Power Grid War Games Crash Social Media (Washington
Examiner, Daily on Energy)
Help! A Smart Meter’s Turned My Husband into a Power-Crazed
Penny Pincher (The Daily Mail, UK)
These Women Taught Depression-Era Americans to Use
Electricity (History Channel)
FISH & WILDLIFE
News Release: What Would You Pay to Save Salmon? (National
Resources Defense Council – Keeping in mind that PNW public power customers
already do…)
Prominent Washington Fishing Guide Convicted in Disability
Fraud Scheme (Seattle Times, WA – Paywall Advisory)
TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Douglas PUD’s 2018 Fiber Expansion Project Underway
(iFiberOne News, Ephrata, WA)
Could Enemies Sabotage Undersea Cables Linking the World?
(Associated Press)
As Atlanta Seeks to Restore Services, Ransomware Attacks Are
on the Rise (National Public Radio)
Under Armour Says 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts Breached
(Reuters)
RUS Takes a New Approach to Broadband Loan Applications
(Telecompetitor)
I SING THE CAR ELECTRIC
Tesla Recalls Almost Half the Cars It Ever Built – Shares
Tank & Musk’s Billions Shrink (NBC News)
Wenatchee: Wirelessly Charging Electric Bus Goes Live after
Easter (KPQ Radio, Wenatchee, WA)
New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Florence (KCST
Radio, Florence, OR)
U-S Utilities Look to Electric Cars as Their Savior amid
Decline in Demand (National Public Radio)
WATER, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE
Californians Are Embracing Recycled Drinking Water, So Why
Isn’t Sacramento? (Sacramento Bee, CA)
CLIMATE CHANGE SEQUESTRATION VAULT
Exxon Flops in Bid to Kill Climate-Fraud Probe (Courthouse
News Service)
PUBLIC RELATIONS, MARKETING & MEDIA
‘Maybe Someone Dies’: Facebook VP Justified Bullying,
Terrorism as Costs of Network’s ‘Growth’ (Washington Post)
Facebook Employees Lash Out over ‘This Leak #$%^’ (Mashable)
Woods Family Sells Wenatchee World to Wick Communications (Yakima
Herald Republic, WA)
10 Email Phrases That Make You Sound Unprofessional (Fast
Company)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Oregon, Other Marijuana-Legal States Want Meeting with U-S
Attorney General (Associated Press)
Wine-Related Firms Look to Uncork Opportunities in Marijuana
(Marijuana Business Daily)
BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI – SEETHING STEW OF SCIENCE
Californians to Take Their Coffee with a Cancer Warning
(Associated Press)
Brands Need to Join the 21st Century & Tap into Radio
Advertising (AdWeek)
GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
U-S Ninth Appeals Court Judge Reinhardt Known as the ‘Liberal
Lion’, Dies (Reuters)
GENERAL NEWS
Doubts Raised That Massive Hanford Plant Nuclear Waste
Treatment Could Open By 2022 (Associated Press)
As Swimming Season Nears, How Clean Is the Water at Your
Favorite Beach? (Olympian, WA – Paywall Advisory)
La Nina is Doomed (Cliff Mass Weather Blog)
SOMETHING IN THE AIR – DIVERSIONS
Iowa Man Wins Lawsuit over Calling His Hometown Stinky
Precious Cargo: Qantas Announces ‘Cargo Class’ Plans for
Long-Haul Flights Where Passengers Go in the Hold
So, About the Satellite That’s About to Crash Into Earth...
Rube Goldberg’s Famed Cartoons on Display at Contemporary Jewish
Museum
SONG OF THE DAY
John Paul Young - Love Is in the Air
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