Recent Articles from Luige del Puerto and Rachel Leingang
This time, voters are in and out of the polls in minutes
The long lines that marred last month’s presidential primary election were nowhere to be seen at the voting centers today.
Miscalculations quickly became apparent as voters lined up at the polls
When Roberta Henning left her home in Glendale to vote on March 22, she never thought it would consume her entire day and she would fail – for the first time ever – to cast a ballot.
Stump accuses critics of acting like ‘mafia’
Commissioner Bob Stump is accusing SolarCity and Checks and Balances Project, a critic of Arizona’s regulatory agency, of acting like a “mafia” following the disclosure that the two have financial ties.
Commission mulls program that costs APS millions, benefits major firms
A more muted deliberation involving Arizona’s biggest utility is underway at the Arizona Corporation Commission, this time over a program that allows eight major energy consumers to purchase less-expensive power from a third-party source.
Rooftop solar not the only APS program that shifts customer costs
In asking for a whopping 320 percent increase in solar fees, Arizona Public Service argues that it needs to recover costs that solar users shift to other customers by not paying their fair share of maintaining the electric grid.