{"id":620716,"date":"2017-05-26T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=620716"},"modified":"2017-05-27T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T21:03:03","slug":"atmos-energy-gets-a-rate-hike-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=620716","title":{"rendered":"Atmos Energy Gets a Rate Hike in Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Atmos-Energy-sig.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Atmos-Energy-sig-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-620717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Atmos-Energy-sig-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Atmos-Energy-sig-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Atmos-Energy-sig.jpeg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; Atmos Energy customers in Longview will be seeing an increase in natural gas rates. The Longview city council yesterday approved a 7% rate hike for the company. The company had proposed an 8% increase. But Longview and other cities negotiated the rate lower. The city council vote for the hike was 6 to 1, with councilman David Wright voting against it. He said the company had raised its rates at least 5% for each of the past two years. But inflation had only increased around 2%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; Atmos Energy customers in Longview will be seeing an increase in natural gas rates. The Longview city council yesterday approved a 7% rate hike for the company. The company had proposed an 8% increase. But Longview and other cities negotiated the rate lower. The city council vote for the hike was 6 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=620716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atmos Energy Gets a Rate Hike in Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":620717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 09:50:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620720,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620716\/revisions\/620720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/620717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}