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Longview’s charging stations go mostly unused; CR’s sees more usage
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Millions
rally in
France
Scores of world leaders
join massive unity march
By Angela Charlton
and Thomas Adamson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS — More than a million
people surged through the boulevards of Paris behind dozens of
world leaders walking arm-inarm Sunday in
a rally for unity
described as the
largest demVideo
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surfaces
French history.
showing
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marched around attacker
the country and
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the world to
motives
repudiate three
days of terror that killed
Israel
17 people and
expects
changed France.
attacks
Amid intense
to drive
security and
Jews from
with throngs
rivaling those
France
that followed
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the liberation
of Paris from
the Nazis, the city became “the
capital of the world” for a day, on
a planet increasingly vulnerable
to such cruelty.
More than 40 world leaders
headed the somber procession —
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Nissan Leaf owner Will Price charges his electric vehicle in his garage rather than at publicly funded EV Project locations around Eugene on Dec. 30.
By Brooks Johnson
E
Potency of
state’s pot
all over
the map
[email protected]
lectric car drivers needing a charge
in Cowlitz County are in luck. Too
much luck, probably. The county
has four charging stations, but only
Castle Rock’s Cascade Select Market station gets used on a daily basis.
“
The others, all in
I don’t
Longview, have been used
think we have
sparingly — or not at all
— since being installed.
started really
At the Nissan dealerpromoting it
ship on Third Avenue in
Longview, a few chargers pull
yet.”
up a week to the area’s oldest
— Wendy
station, which predates the
Hall, LCC
release of the Nissan Leaf a
spokeswoman
few years ago.
The Cowlitz PUD parking
on the nonlot has seen upward of
existent usage
90 drivers pay for power
of the charging
since the stations were instation at the
stalled a year ago.
college
As for spots reserved for
charging at Lower Columbia
College’s new parking lot, open since this fall? No
charges yet.
“I don’t think we have started really promoting
it yet,” college spokeswoman Wendy Hall said. “I
would say we need to let people know about it.”
There were 48 plug-in electric vehicles registered in the county as of July, and chances are
most of those drivers charge their cars at home,
eliminating the need to wait and pay for power
elsewhere.
Each of the four stations in the county is part
of a different network of chargers, requiring subscriptions or memberships to charge at a preferred
rate, except for the Nissan dealership station.
All of Longview’s chargers are considered
Level 2, which takes several hours to recharge an
electric car’s battery back to capacity.
The most-used station in the county, at Castle
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Average THC level is
about 16%, while some
climb into the 30s, 40s
By Evan Bush
THE SEATTLE TIMES
Bill Wagner / The Daily News
The electric car charging station at Cascade Select Market in Castle Rock is the busiest
one around — though it was a bit slow Saturday morning.
9,745 electric cars registered in state
As of the end of July, most plug-in vehicles were
concentrated in the Puget Sound region.
48 in Cowlitz
County
0-20
21-100
101-400
400+
SOURCE: Washington state Department of Transporation
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BY THE NUMBERS
48
4
30
2
0
No. of plug-in electric cars registered
in Cowlitz County
Locations of public
charging stations in
the county
Minutes it takes to
charge at CR quickcharge station
Hours it takes to
charge at every
other local station
Cars that have used
the stations at
LCC since August
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Vaping finds
a new home
in Kelso at
Viper Vapor,
as owners
revel in latest
nicotine
trend / B1
SEATTLE — When Uncle Ike’s
Pot Shop opened in Seattle, owner Ian Eisenberg said he couldn’t
compete with medical dispensaries’ lower prices, but he did have
one advantage.
“Ours is tested and you know
what you’re getting,” Eisenberg
said.
He’s right on the first point.
State rules require a small
sample tested from every lot of
marijuana up to 5 pounds. But do
consumers know what they’re
getting? That’s murkier. As the
state market develops, so does its
testing program.
The program is having success
screening substances like yeast,
mold and bacteria. About 10 percent of marijuana buds fail tests
and can’t be sold in recreational
pot stores, according to Liquor
Control Board data.
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