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🍽️ From Drive-Ins to Lumpia: A New Book Explores How Tacoma Eats

💰 Tacoma Utility Bills Could Rise Again in 2027 and 2028

🛑 Speeding on Your Tacoma Street? Here’s How to Request a Fix

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Tacoma’s food scene is getting its own book—and it is less interested in ranking restaurants than revealing the people behind them. Peggy Cleveland’s new Unique Eats and Eateries of Tacoma explores the chefs, owners, farmers and artisans who have shaped the city’s dining culture, from historic drive-ins and steakhouses to internationally inspired restaurants and businesses that grew from food trucks into permanent homes.

Readers can meet Cleveland during a presentation and book signing from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, September 18, at The Essential Pantry in University Place. The 192-page paperback costs $27 and offers a people-centered tour of Tacoma’s food scene—along with plenty of reasons to reconsider where to eat next.

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Tacoma residents could face another two years of utility increases under proposals now being considered for 2027 and 2028. Average residential power bills would increase approximately $7.40 per month in 2027 and another $8.59 in 2028, while Tacoma Water customers inside the city would pay an estimated $2.99 more per month in 2027 and another $3.17 in 2028.

Separate proposals would also raise revenue from solid waste, wastewater and stormwater customers in both years. Officials point to aging infrastructure, rising operating and construction costs, regulatory requirements and declining wholesale electricity revenue. The increases are not final: the Public Utility Board is expected to vote in October, followed by City Council consideration in November and December.

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Tacoma residents concerned about speeding or cut-through traffic on a residential street can formally request help through the city’s Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program. Possible improvements include speed humps, traffic circles, curb extensions and raised crosswalks.

Requests are ranked using collision history, equity, nearby schools and other community features, plus existing street conditions. Filing a request does not guarantee construction, but it puts the location into Tacoma’s data-driven review process.

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