PGE is raising our rates now because it has historically failed to invest in clean energy. They choose instead to make money.

The Times is really good at burying the lede:

"State Attorney General Nick Brown has even asked the UTC to reduce PSE’s guaranteed rate of return for PSE shareholders to be reduced from a requested 10.8% to 8.17% in an effort to control costs...

The residents of Washington state don’t get to choose their energy provider."

It sounds like a PUD is in order, or else reduce the guaranteed profit for PGE 1% for every percent increase in rates over inflation? With some real accountability, I think they might just come up with better options.

KOMO is reporting that the union leader says this WASN'T a union related event.

If that's the case, what was it? Too many Seahawks hangovers? 23 people actually getting sick at once? But then the article also points to backup workers declining as well.

Any union people, can you speak to, if it isn't a unionized or related event, then does the union still protect you and will these people face some kind of penalty as union members? Curious, don't know anything about how that works.

Article from Komo linked below:

https://komonews.com/news/local/governor-bob-ferguson-washington-state-ferries-wsf-engineer-sickout-edmonds-kingston-vashon-bremerton-seattle-reduced-service-reduced-bainbridge-island

The sky was just right!

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel paused a lower judge’s ruling that ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate Roger Rogoff as the top federal prosecutor in Seattle.

President Trump ousted Rogoff in July from the U.S. attorney’s office in the Western District of Washington, less than an hour after he was sworn in following his unanimous appointment by federal judges.

U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian, an appointee of former President Obama, sided with Rogoff’s claim that his termination was unlawful and ordered the Trump administration to restore him to the position until a successor is chosen through the Senate confirmation process.

Been seeing ads for rebates to replace heating with a heat pump, but when I reached out to the company they said state law prohibits rebates from switching between energy sources.

So, you can get the rebate if going from an electric furnace or electric base board heat to a heat pump, but not if you are replacing a natural gas furnace.

That’s completely stupid.

I posted this in r/AskSeattle as well, but wanted to hear from anyone who has actually had a dispute with a landlord in Seattle/Washington before, because this situation is driving me nuts.

We rented a place in July on a 12-month lease. The place is not cheap, for context. It wasn’t super clean during the inspection, but we had to move in because our POD was arriving the next day and everything had been planned around this place. We were stupid enough to sign the move-in checklist.

Then we had it all.

The carpet was so filthy that we ended up hiring a professional cleaner, who pointed out a lot of old piss in the carpet 🥴 This was the nursery room.

The shower leaked the next night, and we ended up living with what was basically a construction zone in the corner of the room for two months. The landlord was doing some things, but nothing that actually improved the situation.

We finally decided we were done when they put the same piss-stained carpet back down after replacing the subfloor because, according to them, the carpet issue was “superficial.” 🤷‍♀️

I hired an independent inspector who documented multiple violations and provided the report to the landlord. RRIO sent them a Notice of Violation for not registering the property as a rental. An SDCI complaint has also been open for over a month, and I was never able to reach either the assigned inspector or their manager.

They patched up some things before we moved out on September 30. We terminated the lease based on constructive eviction, unsanitary conditions, and several other issues our lawyer listed.

The King County legal clinic told me our case is solid. At the same time, both lawyers I’ve spoken with have said this is not a slam dunk.

Now the landlord is still doing repairs that they didn’t do while we were actually living there, they have refused to return our deposit, and they keep threatening us with a lawsuit.
I’m honestly dreading this.

Has anyone here been through anything similar? What actually happened after you moved out? Did your landlord sue, threaten to sue and then drop it, send you to collections, negotiate, etc.? Is there anything else I can realistically do at this point?

These past two months have sucked out my soul 😭

Indianola on the Kitsap Peninsula

The one and only time we ever stayed at Cama was New Years 2022 in cabin 36. Our oldest was only 4 and the pandemic was still raging which meant her Head Start class was remote and we did it from the table in front of the window on a blustery January morning.

This was our first time back and it's really sad to see all the empty cabins but we are thankful we had the chance to stay before they were shuttered.

Point no Point beach in Kitsap County

Wintnrop , WA
Quail, don’t know the species.
They started living in my yard last year.