Arizona Corporation Commission

Liquid Sol, A "Coachella-Like" Music Festival, Reportedly Coming to Canyon Moon Ranch in September

Attention local concert commandos: Keep the third weekend of September open on your social calendar and set aside enough gas money to get you to and from Florence. That's because, per recent reports that have surfaced online, there's supposedly gonna be some sort a "Coachella-like multigenre music ... More >>

Solar Eclipsed: Why the Sun Won't Power Phoenix Despite an Industry Boom

"Solar Team" Goes Dark; Voters Choose Three Republicans Instead for Arizona Corporation Commission

Voters turned out the lights on the self-described "solar team" of three Democrats who hoped to control the Arizona Corporation Commission. The commission, which regulates public utilities, corporations, securities, railways and pipelines, will be dominated by an all-Republican membership for at lea ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Birther Club Hit With IRS Complaint Pegging "Investigator" Mike Zullo

Believe it or not, someone out there doesn't believe Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse/birther club qualifies as a "charity."A complaint to that effect was filed with the Internal Revenue Service a few weeks ago, which is referenced through the Fogbow's extensive library of information on Arpaio' ... More >>

Peter Pocklington, Former Owner of Houston Oilers, Accused of Scamming Investors With Gold Mine Claims

Peter Pocklington, former owner of the hockey's Houston Oilers, has been accused by Arizona officials of scamming investors out of millions with bogus claims about a gold mine in La Paz County.This one has echoes of a ripoff we wrote about last week from the late '80s called the Pannos Mine. One of ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensary Entrepreneurs Denied Corporate Status for Now; Wait for Election, Corporation Commission Says

  ​Eager entrepreneurs who want to get moving on their marijuana dispensary business have been denied corporate status by the Arizona Corporation Commission. Rebecca Wilder, spokeswoman for the commission, tells New Times that at least three would-be dispensary companies ... More >>

Endorsements: Romley for County Attorney; Jennings for Corporation Commission; Dougherty for U.S. Senate

Matinee Energy Official Pushed Gold-Mine Scheme in 1980s, Now Behind $700 Million Solar Deal With Hyundai Heavy

  ​One of the principals behind a company that claims to be bringing a 175-megawatt solar plant to southern Arizona was accused in the 1980s of running a bogus gold-mining scheme. Christopher E. Pannos, one of his brothers, James, and two other people were among those charged by the ... More >>

Crime Ring Spanned Years, Involved Local Nightclubs and Exotic Auto Dealerships, Cops Say

Three people have been arrested and accused of bilking a bank of $750,000 and running a network of shady businesses with the infusion of millions of dollars of capital from Mexico.The crimes spanned the last decade and included businesses that would be familiar to many readers, including:* CBNC, the ... More >>

Hot Links: APS Rates, Joe Shirley, and the Postal Service

​The Arizona Corporation Commission will vote today on a possible rate hike for Arizona Power Systems (APS) customers. The proposed increase would raise customers' rates by an average of more than $6 a month. An administrative-law judge has already recommended approval of the rate hike...A judge i ... More >>

Arizona Helped Bust SEC Official Who Helped Scottsdale Numerologist's Ponzi Scheme

A Securities and Exchange Commission supervisor handled the finances for a Scottsdale-based flim-flam artist's Ponzi scheme, than received a $25,000 retirement buyout package. Investigators with the Arizona Corporation Commission notified the SEC late last year about its naughty employee after ... More >>

Steven Anderson's Three Alarm Baptist Church: Barry Lynn of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State Weighs In

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Solar Energy Snub: Feds Shortchange Arizona in Solar Study

  ​ The feds are going to study 670,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in six western states -- but only 16,000 of those acres are in Arizona. What an oversight! Those gloomy skies over Washington D.C. must have dimmed bureaucrats' minds. It's typically said that we get about ... More >>

The Dirty Truth about "Clean" Elections

Hot Links: Obama Gets to Work and Receives Challenge From Russia, Local Election Officials Still Counting Votes, Massachusetts Voters Decriminalize Pot

Ex-Lawmaker Debra Brimhall Back as Debra Pearson in College Board Election

Gorenter Founder Mark Bosworth Accused of Ripping Off Investors

Death Be Not Profitable

Investors are finding that terminally ill patients don't make the best investments

Arizonan Siesta

While the public sleeps, the fix is in to turn our state into a power farm for Mexico

Shock Treatment

California eats lots of power, but it doesn't like growing its own power plants. Instead, Arizona is becoming the new power farm for the Coast.

Accountants Down

State files more charges against Arthur Andersen in BFA scandal

Leftie Bag

Activist passionate about his causes

Ecstatic Fall Sale

Safari Media update

Ecstatic Fall

They threw lavish raves, had endless expense accounts and traveled the world. Then the attorney general crashed the party.

"This Has Wrecked My Career"

Jack Rose was a golden boy, a precocious businessman and political insider. Then he ran into a buzz saw at the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Phone Hex

A US West telephone repairman goes to war against his employer in an attempt to see that his hometown is ready for a new century

A Litany of Litigation

Investors file suit against besieged Baptist Foundation

"Fraudulent Practices"

State orders Baptist Foundation of Arizona to stop selling securities; officers "relinquish responsibilities"

Letters

From the week of February 2, 1999

For Whom Your Bell Tolls

Arizonans will be asked to pay a share of $45.1 million retirement packages for three U S West executives

A peek at how the power companies played the political game in 1998:

The Tony and John Show

Ten years of greasing the wheels for a real estate big shot make Tony West a spooky choice for voters

Flashes

Power Struggle

Top state officials clash over Salt River Project

The Story So Far

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Reform Fitting but Unlikely

In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Wholly Owned Subsidiary

They put their life savings into a Christian housing development owned by the Conservative Baptists. Now they're praying for deliverance.

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How Not to Make a Shilling in Insurance

When the esteemed Lloyd's of London came calling for investors, some Arizonans took a pounding

There's No Accounting for Joe's Posses

Sheriff thumbs nose at Public Records Law, refuses to disclose how posses collect and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars

Letters

An Exercise in Utility

Jim Irvin is poised to give the GOP a Corporation Commission majority for the first time in a decade. If that happens, Democratic activist Barbara Sherman and her mentor, Commission chairman Renz Jennings, will both wind up losers.

Tapped Out

In Pine and Strawberry, the groundwater runs down to Phoenix. Now water reserves are shrinking, the two paradisiacal Mogollon Rim hamlets are drying out--and hardly anyone wants to admit it.

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BUSINESS AS USUAL

STATE LAWMAKERS SOLVED MANY PROBLEMS THIS SESSION. UNFORTUNATELY,MOST OF THE PROBLEMS WERE BIG BUSINESSES'.

ARIZONA, HOME OF THE OK QUARREL

HEY, WE'RE THE GRAND CANYON STATE. WE LIKE BIG SCHISMS.

WHAT'S A LITTLE FRAUD BETWEEN FRIENDS?THE LEGISLATURE IS HELL-BENT ON GUTTING ARIZONA'S STIFF SECURITIES STATUES

RUNAWAY TRAINSTHE RAILROAD INDUSTRY WON'T TAKEN THE BLAME IF YOU GET KILLED AT ONE OF ITS CROSSINGS

POWER OUTRAGEWHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET A HUGE HIKE IN YOUR ELECTRIC BILL AND NO ONE GIVES A WATT OF SYMPATHY?