A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has taken the first steps in what should result in the public finally getting a look at text messages Bob Stump sent and received during last year's election.

State investigators are working to recover text messages that utility regulator Bob Stump sent and received during last year's Republican primary, Capitol Media Services has learned.

Irony,” says literary critic Harold Bloom, “demands a certain attention span, and the ability to sustain antithetical ideas, even when they collide with one another.”

After months of threatening a lawsuit, the Checks and Balances Project today sued the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and the Corporation Commission to get immediate access to a commissioner’s text messages.

After a moment of introspection, three energy regulators have concluded they hold no prejudices and there’s no need to recuse themselves from hearing a now-withdrawn proposal by Arizona Public Service to hike the monthly solar fee by 320 percent.

Two former Corporation Commissioners and a solar company say Commissioners Tom Forese and Doug Little should have recused themselves from the proceeding on Arizona Public Service’s solar fee increase. In a separate motion, solar company Sunrun says Commissioner Bob Stump should have recused himself from the proceeding because he has prejudged the net metering issue.

The Court of Appeals yesterday ruled in favor of the Arizona Corporation Commission, reversing a lower court’s decision and confirming the commission’s authority to count energy from a proposed trash-burning facility as a renewable source.

Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Stump, who is under fire for deleting text messages on his commission-issued phone, including content that was considered public records, has finally answered one the most pressing questions in the controversy: Why?

The Attorney General's office took custody of Corporation Commissioner Bob Stump's cell phone to review as part of the agency's whistleblower investigation into former Commissioner Gary Pierce.

The Arizona Corporation Commission is obtaining software designed to help ensure the public has a chance from now on of getting access to text messages of state utility regulators.