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Regulator set to offer renewable energy plan for Corp Comm consideration
With a renewable energy initiative ready to be filed next week, a state utility regulator is filing his own proposal, one that electric companies are likely to find more attractive.
Union files initiative to cap hospital executives’ pay
The health care arm of the Service Employees International Union wants to ask Arizona voters to cap “exorbitant” salaries for executives at area hospitals.
The end of transparency? Corp commissioner Burns considering further restrictions to public records
After three months of fighting with the Washington DC-based Checks and Balances Project over records of an Arizona Corporation Commission member’s text messages, emails and call logs, a fellow commissioner was fed up. "When does too much become too much?” Commissioner Bob Burns wrote in an email to Jodi Jerich, executive director of the Corporation Commission.
Enrollment in Medicaid expansion falls short of projection
Enrollment for the population that benefits from the contentious passage of Medicaid expansion is far below projections, but that doesn’t sound alarms for the Governor’s Office, the agency that administers the program or hospitals.
Medicaid plan limits AHCCCS director power, but concerns remain
Limits on how the AHCCCS director would be able to use the unprecedented power provided under Gov. Jan Brewer’s Medicaid expansion plan have eased some worries, but not all.
Capitol Quotes: Feb. 24, 2012
This week's most outstanding quips, jibes and utterances.
Brewer orders halt to budget negotiations
Gov. Jan Brewer threw a counterpunch at GOP lawmakers following the Monday release of their budget plan, ordering a halt to meetings between the two sides’ budget staffs until the legislative budget plan is changed to address some of her key concerns.
Capitol Quotes: May 27, 2010
This week's most outstanding quotes from around the Capitol.
Capitol Quotes: April 8, 2011
‘You can imagine how much pot has to be smoked for us to get $10 million in (sales taxes).” — Sen. Andy Biggs, on estimates medical marijuana sales taxes would bring in $10 million in fiscal year 2012.
