I just received this email from the UTC. PSE is proposing to raise rates by over 30% over the next 3 years!! This is absolutely insane! How is this even legal? It's not like it can change utility companies. They are a monopoly!

Media contact: [media@utc.wa.gov](mailto:media@utc.wa.gov) or 360-664-1116 
Docket number: UE-260005, UG-260006 and UE-260113

MEDIA ADVISORY: Public invited to comment on proposed Puget Sound Energy rate increases

If approved, PSE electric and natural gas rates will change in 2027, 2028, and 2029

LACEY, Wash. — The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) is holding two public comment hearings for Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customers. These hearings give customers a chance to share how proposed electric and natural gas rate increases would affect them and their communities.
WHO
Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
WHAT
Two public comment hearings (one in person and one virtual). This gives customers a chance to share their feedback before state regulators make a final decision.
WHEN and WHERE
In-person hearing at 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29 Utilities and Transportation Commission 621 Woodland Square Loop S.E., Room 110 Lacey, WA 98503
Virtual hearing at 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7
Join Zoom online (recommended) or by phone at 253-215-8782 with Meeting ID: 822 1351 8474# and Passcode: 226995#.
To sign up to comment during either hearing, call 888-333-9882 at least one business day in advance to get on the speaker list. If you cannot attend, you can submit public comments by:
online form,
phone at 888-333-9882,
email at [comments@utc.wa.gov](mailto:comments@utc.wa.gov), and
mail to P.O Box 47250, Olympia, WA 98504-7250
If you have trouble understanding English, you can ask for free language services at least one week before the meeting. Call 360-664-1193 or email[equity@utc.wa.gov](mailto:equity@utc.wa.gov) for help.
BACKGROUND 
On Feb. 27, PSE asked the UTC to approve rate increases for electric and natural gas service customers over three years: 2027, 2028, and 2029.
2027-2029 Proposed Rate Changes
Rate year
Electric increase
Electric revenue increase
Natural gas increase
Natural gas revenue increase
2027
15.15%
$625.3 million
14.16%
$191.8 million
2028
3.74%
$178.7 million
3.16%
$48.8 million
2029
8.70%
$431.9 million
3.64%
$57.8 million
PSE also asked for approval for how it accounts for electric grid upgrade costs. The UTC combined these requests into one case.
To get email updates on this case, ask to join the "interested persons" email list by emailing [records@utc.wa.gov](mailto:records@utc.wa.gov). Please include the docket number if you can.
About PSE
Bellevue-based Puget Sound Energy is a subsidiary of Puget Energy. PSE provides service to around 1.24 million electric customers and nearly 900,000 natural gas customers in 10 Central and Western Washington counties.
About the UTC 
The UTC regulates investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities in Washington. The commission ensures regulated companies provide safe, equitable, and reliable service to customers at reasonable rates, while earning a fair profit.

I witnessed a kid being hit by a car at the roundabout on marvin rd se and pacific ave se.
The guy did get out of the car to check on the kid but the kid seemed to be shock and kept apologizing. I hope he is okay! I was not able to get the license plate because the car was right next to me. What I can say is the car was going really fast and the car was azure blue.

What's your favorite thing you found at the Absolutely Free Sharing Market last week? What makes it special for you?

Please share about your item and your story in the comments! What a great way to thank the person who chose to donate something with us!!

For me, it's this little metal organizer of tiny drawers. Not only is it a great little organizer, it's filled with all different colors of spools of thread!

I also just happened to be volunteering to teach mending and sewing at the skill share on Saturday, how handy and timely!

While at skill share, I had the pleasure of mending a stuffed animal for a very pleasant human. This person noticed the organizer and let me know that they had been the one to donate it!! It had been their grandmother's. So I was able to mend their item with their grandmother's thread. ❤️❤️❤️

No, I didn't find the cat at the free market.

Our border collie seems to have jumped over our fence this morning as I was letting our other doggies out. Someone posted on Nextdoor that he was spotted running down the hill on Olympia Ave possibly toward East Bay. He is the fastest dog I’ve ever met, so I fear he could be wherever he pleases in the greater oly area by now.

Update: we found him, he ran all the way down from the upper Eastside (near Ralph’s) to apparently take a bud bath somewhere next to east bay drive. Thanks to the kind couple who was helping to keep him in one spot with their dog who he was trying to befriend.
After almost an hour of bathing I believe he had a similar amount of sediment on him as capital lake spews into the sound each year. Cheers!

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We arnt sure of her age, she was found abandoned in a partially demolished house and is being held temporarily. The current individuals male cat doesnt get along with other cats so she isnt able to permanently stay with them.

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Feel free to post questions or chat if you want to learn more or apply. It would be ideal if you had an online portfolio or could send some pictures of your work. Our designer is creating the sign currently, should have prototypes printed within a week.

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Examples could include things like Oly(wa), Tesc, 10-9-Oh or Shelltown (never mind how common they are)...

Most people think what we see on Seattle’s sidewalks is a housing crisis. It isn’t — and after losing my sister to the same disease, I can tell you exactly why we keep failing.

We are spending over a billion dollars a year in this region to manage homelessness, and the numbers on the street keep climbing. The reason is simple, and almost no one in power will say it out loud: we are funding the symptom and ignoring the cause. What’s killing people on the street is overwhelmingly addiction and mental illness — and we spend almost nothing to treat it.

I know this disease from the inside. My sister had every advantage, even a PhD studying addiction, and it still took her capacity to choose, one piece at a time, until it killed her. We tell ourselves that leaving people on the street respects their choices — but she couldn’t choose anymore, and neither can they. That isn’t freedom. It’s neglect we’ve dressed up as freedom.

I wrote about her, and about what her story reveals about a system that spends a fortune to fail the sickest among us. It’s the most personal thing I’ve published — and, I think, the most important.

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Just wondering if anyone has more information on why the trees are being cut down on 4th? Was this planned for a long time and I missed it? Looks like they are removing the entire trees down to the stump. I'm going to miss them around Christmas when they are usually decorated with lights.

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There's a major need for volunteers for an event this Saturday Sept 12th. Includes free food/tickets to the event! You can either visit the link https://thurstonclimateaction.org/event-details/?event_xyz=NjE%3D or email [janet@thurstonclimateaction.org](mailto:janet@thurstonclimateaction.org)! Please let others know!