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Statement on Arizona Municipal Court Judge Randall Warner’s Dismissal of C&BP Lawsuit

2016-05-31

A Statement by Executive Director Scott Peterson “Checks and Balances Project was founded six years ago to ask tough questions of government officials, lobbyists, and corporate managers who stand in the way of sustainability. Despite today’s action, we’re celebrating the progress we’ve made in Arizona over the past year. “Our pressure on the Corporation… Read more »

Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s Visitors Log Tells Tales

2016-04-26

Nine Times More Meetings with Utility Lobbyists Than Clean Energy Reps On the third floor of the Public Service Commission (PSC) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, directly across from the elevator, is the guard’s desk. There you’ll find the visitors sign-in log. Our analysis of a 17-month period documents the Commission’s greater than 9-to-1 preference… Read more »

Will Transparency or Corporation Commission’s Gamesmanship Prevail in Arizona?

2016-04-18

A critical decision is approaching in the effort to enforce public access to public records. Superior Court Judge Randall Warner will soon decide whether to allow continued gamesmanship by Arizona Public Service-connected players in Arizona government or take a step toward public transparency. On April 15, 2016, we submitted a new motion to the court…. Read more »

Arizonans Overwhelmingly Want Stump’s Text Messages Released

2016-03-7

After Year of Evasion on Record Requests, New Poll Shows a Majority Reject Stump’s Assertions (Note: this story was updated on March 8, 2016.) Lawyers for the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) tried today to have a judge help it to continue blocking public access to thousands of work-related text messages on Commissioner Bob Stump’s… Read more »

Wisconsin Public Service Commission: Slow-Walking Accountability?

2016-02-18

Part Three in a Series The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSCW) has agreed to fulfill our request for the release of records surrounding a powerful former staff member’s communications with the clients and lobbyists from the lobbying firm he joined right after he left the Commission. It took the PSCW three and a half months… Read more »

Facts Do Not Support Bob Stump’s Wishful Thinking About Exoneration

2016-02-3

Is Arizona Attorney General Brnovich Hiding the Ball? Nearly 11 months ago, a reader tipped us that Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Stump used text messaging as his preferred means of communication. We found and reviewed footage of him texting repeatedly during Commission meetings. That led us to ask to examine Mr. Stump’s text messages, in… Read more »

Nevada Utilities Commissioner Noble’s Travel Records Subject of Inquiry

2016-01-28

PUC Agrees to Release a Thousand Pages of Records – for $339 The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada doesn’t keep an accurate sign-in log of visitors to its headquarters in Carson City and has maintained for five months and counting that Commissioner Noble’s public office appointment calendar isn’t a public record. Yet the PUCN’s… Read more »

Nevada’s Anti-Rooftop Solar Decision Mirrors Utility Lobby’s Template

2016-01-25

Public Utilities Commission Staff Denies Lobbying Contacts, But Won’t Release Noble’s Meeting Records Checks and Balances Project has been using public records requests to help citizens better understand the origins of what one couple called “the Christmas bait-and-switch decision” by the Public Utility Commission of Nevada (PUCN) to end the solar rooftop industry… Read more »

Were None of Stump’s Text Messages On Our List Reviewed by Judge Cole?

2016-01-25

While Judge Cole’s two-paragraph report is silent about which of Commissioner Bob Stump’s text messages he actually looked at, the former judge’s comments last Friday to the Arizona Republic indicate that he did not look at any of the more than 3,500 text messages sought by C&BP’s public records request. Only those text messages given… Read more »

First Report from Judge Cole Leaves Unanswered Questions

2016-01-20

Two Paragraph Letter Tells Us Little Wednesday evening, C&BP attorney Dan Barr received a two paragraph report from Judge Cole, the special master appointed to examine Commissioner Bob Stump’s text messages from his government-issued smartphone. According to Cole’s report, “none of the text messages” that the Attorney General’s investigators downloaded from Stump’s iPhone6 are… Read more »

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