Nick Myers

We receive mixed information from our own general counsel.

Commissioner Nick Myers also asked Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays to issue an opinion on the powers of the executive director to fire policy advisors.

Wayne Shutsky, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Well, recently released data shows Citizenship and Immigration Services approved just 54,000 citizenship applications over the last three months.

Bridget Dowd, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Attorney General Chris Mays wants Arizona Corporation Commissioner Nick Myers to step away from ongoing cases considering rate increases for Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power.

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desk, Wayne Schatzke has more on that.

APS, SRP, and Tucson Electric Power pay to participate in a trading market operated through California's grid, but they want out.

Arizona Corporation Commissioner Nick Myers says California has been a bad neighbor, withholding resources bought by Arizona to ride through its own emergencies.

The problem is the new market Arizona Utilities would like to join could be a lot smaller without the Pacific Northwest's Bonneville Power Administration, which is reconsidering the move.

APS and Tucson Electric Power say Markets Plus is still the better option, with or without Bonneville.

It happens, but they're typically, you know, kind of governing from the same point of view.

But, um, Commissioners Kevin Thompson and Nick Myers were up for re-election this year, and, uh, Nick Myers actually got taken out by, uh, Ralph Heep, a state lawmaker, in the primary.

So now you have Kevin Thompson, the incumbent, and Ralph Heep as the two Republican nominees.

Heep kind of came at this from a further right side, uh, touting President Trump's kind of call for more coal power in Arizona, which we don't really use much of here.

Arizona commissioner stands firm on Markets Plus support.

Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Nick Myers is firing back on speculation that Arizona is wavering in its choice of SPP's Markets Plus rather than CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market.

ROE debated at NJ utility reform hearings.

New Jersey officials trying to create a model for determining how utilities should operate faced contentious pushback from stakeholders in a recent public hearing, particularly over how much return on equity utilities should earn.