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Utilities Sector

  • News

    February 21, 1990

    Sell, APS, Sell!

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    July 15, 1992

    A STINK OVER SEPTIC TANKSNOBODY WANTS TO TAKE YOUR CRAP

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    December 30, 1992

    MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    May 26, 1993

    NUKE PLANTS LOBBY TO LET DOWN THEIR GUARDS

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    July 28, 1993

    NUKE PLANT CREASED IN WASHINGTON OPPOSITION HAS LITTLE TIME TO ACT

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    April 27, 1994

    THE NUKE GETS TAX BREAKS WHILE THE COUNTY FLOUNDERS

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    June 1, 1994

    THE LIGHTER SIDE OF GLOWING IN THE DARK

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    June 8, 1994

    THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULDN'T

    Experts say Arizona would be lucky if an outsider bought its largest utility company

  • News

    January 25, 1996

    Tale of the Crypto

    Other Valley cities wonder whether Phoenix's water treatment practices increase the odds for an outbreak of a waterborne disease. It's called Crypto and it can kill.

  • News

    July 4, 1996

    Trickle-Down Theory

    Industries get a big say in rewrite of water-pollution laws; public may pick up tab

  • News

    July 18, 1996

    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.

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    Scottsdale's Drinking Problem

    It's crystal clear that the city of Scottsdale served its citizens water laced with a suspected carcinogen. But did city officials do it on purpose?

  • News

    February 13, 1997

    Marshmallow Roast

    It's crystal clear that the city of Scottsdale served its citizens water laced with a suspected carcinogen. But did city officials do it on purpose?

  • News

    April 24, 1997

    Dark Days on Black Mesa

    The Hopi want one of the largest coal mines in North America to stop using their groundwater. If springs and wells continue to dry up, they say, their ancient culture may disappear, too.

  • News

    May 1, 1997

    A People Betrayed

    Recently discovered documents indicate that the lawyer who represented the Hopi Tribe in crucial negotiations with Peabody Western Coal Company was working for the mining company at the same time

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    Flashes

    Recently discovered documents indicate that the lawyer who represented the Hopi Tribe in crucial negotiations with Peabody Western Coal Company was working for the mining company at the same time

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Going to the Well Too Often

    Should boom towns like Prescott let little things like water shortages keep them from growing?

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    Power Struggle

    Top state officials clash over Salt River Project

  • News

    December 1, 2005

    Wisdom of the Ancestors

    A Hopi leader fought a lonely battle to stop a mining company from stealing water that helped build Phoenix. He succeeded. Finally

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Solstice Retreat

    The Arizona Corporation Commission appears poised to toss solar power into the shadows

  • News

    November 4, 2004

    Born Again

    Business and environmentalists agreed for once, and a beautiful Arizona stream will return to us.

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Garbage Time

    Something besides the dump stinks in Mobile

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Power Vacuum

    Arizona's letting the Big Three utilities steal countless millions from us by standing in the way of solar energy

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    Safety Meltdown

    Critics say Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is headed for trouble

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Personal Foul

    Jim Irvin should give up using taxpayers' money as a political football

  • News

    April 24, 2003

    Article of Impeachment

    It's time for legislators to give disgraced Corporation Commissioner Jim Irvin the boot

  • News

    October 3, 2002

    Getting the Shaft

    A water dispute puts both the economy and the environment at risk

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Public Waste

    Are Phoenix taxpayers being taken to the dump?

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Liquid Purity

    To protect the public's water, some Phoenix employees will have to pee in a cup

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    Arizonan Siesta

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

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Giving Us Crap

    Farmers say it's nourishing. Critics say it's noxious. Either way, tons of California sewage is headed to Arizona.

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    Power Trip

    Plant near Kingman may be a foreboding sign for the rest of the state

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    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.

  • Culture

    March 16, 2000

    "Sites" Seeing

    Art and the urban environment hold a lesson for the future

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    "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.

  • News

    May 2, 1996

    Lines of Power

    Mesa residents claim a Tempe councilwoman's home is being spared from high-tension lines--at their expense

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    Going Underground

    Industry makes secret push to gut laws protecting subsurface water supplies

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    Quit Polluting Our Aquifers. Please. Pretty Please.

    Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

  • News

    June 22, 1994

    SORRY, YOU'VE BEEN RE-ENGINEEREDPALO VERDE LAYS OFF HUNDREDS, OUSTS UNION TRADESMEN, IN STREAMLINING EFFORT

    Republican revolutionaries want environmental regulators who cooperate with business. Those who enforce Arizona's groundwater laws have to cooperate; there are too few of them to do much else.

  • News

    June 1, 1994

    SECRETS OF THE PALO VERDE INN

    WHEN IT SOLD A WORKERS' DORMITORY LAST YEAR, APS LEFT THOUSANDS OF ITS OWN DOCUMENTS BEHIND. THOSE FILES SHOW DANGEROUS MISMANAGEMENT OF THE NATION'S LARGEST NUCLEAR PLANT.

  • News

    February 9, 1994

    THE TWO FACES OF ARTBETWEEN THE GODDARD AND JOHNSON ADMINISTRATIONS, PHOENIX'S PUBLIC ART PROGRAM WAS KNOCKED OFF ITS PEDESTAL

    WHEN IT SOLD A WORKERS' DORMITORY LAST YEAR, APS LEFT THOUSANDS OF ITS OWN DOCUMENTS BEHIND. THOSE FILES SHOW DANGEROUS MISMANAGEMENT OF THE NATION'S LARGEST NUCLEAR PLANT.

  • News

    October 21, 1992

    CORPORATION MEN

    TO RETAIN HIS SEAT ON THE COMMISSION, CHAIRMAN JENNINGS TAKES HIS GLOVES OFF AND BATTLES TURNBUCHLE TOM

  • News

    August 19, 1992

    MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

    TO RETAIN HIS SEAT ON THE COMMISSION, CHAIRMAN JENNINGS TAKES HIS GLOVES OFF AND BATTLES TURNBUCHLE TOM

  • News

    October 7, 1992

    MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

    TO RETAIN HIS SEAT ON THE COMMISSION, CHAIRMAN JENNINGS TAKES HIS GLOVES OFF AND BATTLES TURNBUCHLE TOM

  • News

    August 19, 1992

    THE COST OF TOXIC SPILLSHERE'S HOW YOU'LL PAY FOR MOTOROLA'S CONTAMINATION

    TO RETAIN HIS SEAT ON THE COMMISSION, CHAIRMAN JENNINGS TAKES HIS GLOVES OFF AND BATTLES TURNBUCHLE TOM

  • News

    July 1, 1992

    DISASTER RESPONSE

    TO RETAIN HIS SEAT ON THE COMMISSION, CHAIRMAN JENNINGS TAKES HIS GLOVES OFF AND BATTLES TURNBUCHLE TOM

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    EPA Giving $82 Million in Stimulus Cash to Arizona for Water Projects

      Image: Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is directing $82 million in Recovery Act Funds to Arizona water projects. The money will "create jobs, boost local economies, improve aging water and wastewater infrastructure and protect human health and the en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Jack Pfister, Former General Manager of Salt River Project, dies at 76

    Jack Pfister, Phoenix community leader and former long-term manager of power and water utility company Salt River Project, died yesterday at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer. A native to Prescott, Arizona, Pfister quickly rose to leadership in the Phoenix community, where he played rol ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2009

    Heady Metal

    Jack Pfister, Phoenix community leader and former long-term manager of power and water utility company Salt River Project, died yesterday at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer. A native to Prescott, Arizona, Pfister quickly rose to leadership in the Phoenix community, where he played rol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Queen Creek Man Fails to Convince Estranged Wife Rape Was Consensual Sex. Then He Failed at Killing Himself, Too

    MCSOClifton Wilkinson​Clifton Wilkinson had two plans yesterday after getting caught in the act of allegedly sexually assaulting his estranged wife: Plan A was to convince her that it wasn't rape. Plan B was to hang himself.Both failed miserably. According to documents obtained by New Times, Wilk ... More >>

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