This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest.
Redoubt News Links:
- Avista agrees to framework to provide single business with power equal to half of all Spokane County customers. JWR’s Comments: Huge industrial electrical power customers (read: data centers) tend to be given “sweetheart deals”, where the customer is offered rates below 6 cents per kilowatt hour. So, in effect, the residential customers end up subsidizing the cost of the local grid expansion. It is also often feared that the big customers could be given priority for power. So, in the event of load-shedding, we the lowly peon residential customers could lose our power before the big guys.
- Montana teen shoots charging grizzly bear in his backyard.
- From the far-left SF Gate: Yellowstone National Park wolf pups face ‘particularly lethal’ virus.
- Montana Woman Loses Hand In Rodeo Accident: ‘I Thought She Was Going To Die’.
- Sumpter Valley Railway celebrates 50th anniversary.
- Brian Almon: The Two Idahos.
- Privately developed Mark-Zero reactor goes critical at Idaho National Laboratory, DOE says.
- Grant Union HS Seniors pull cattle prank on last day of school.
- I took note that holster-maker Werkz of Potlach, Idaho has recently expanded their product line. They now make holsters with flashlight options for a dizzying variety of pistols and tactical lights.
- ‘Sugarplum Fairy’: What can intimidate a Yellowstone grizzly? Video reveals answer.
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