On WBHM: Advocates warn of a ‘dollar store invasion’
NPR affiliate station WBHM reported on the rapid expansion of dollar stores across the American South. Across three segments, reporter Stephan Bisha interviewed…… Read More
StarTribune: Utility Lobbying Violates Ratepayers’ Free Speech
In this commentary from the Minneapolis StarTribune, John Farrell makes a case against monopoly utilities using customer funds for political lobbying. Compelling captive customers to pay for political speech is a violation of their first amendment right, says Farrell.… Read More
BioCycle: Community Composters Grow Into a Movement
ILSR’s Clarissa Libertelli authored an article in BioCycle on the Composting for Community initiative’s first-ever Community Composter Census…… Read More
On Columbus Radio: Stacy Mitchell Discusses the Problem of Dollar Stores
On the local NPR affiliate, Stacy explains how dollar stores prey on communities. … Read More
The New York Times: As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Say No
The New York Times reported on the growing opposition to chain dollar stores in communities across the U.S., drawing extensively from ILSR’s recent report, The Dollar Store Invasion.… Read More
The American Prospect: Small Businesses Rise to Fight Wall Street
ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell and Senior Policy Advocate Katy Milani are interviewed on the rise of credit card swipe fees and the growing grassroots opposition.… Read More
City Cast Las Vegas: Why Is Vegas’ Internet So Bad?
ILSR’s Sean Gonsalves joined the City Cast Las Vegas podcast to discuss Las Vegas’ subpar Internet offerings and the advantages of city-owned broadband networks…… Read More
The Daily Yonder: Do You Really Have the Broadband the FCC Thinks You Have?
Two members of ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks Team—Sean Gonsalves, Senior Reporter, Editor, and Communications Team Lead, and Christine Parker, GIS and Data Visualization Specialist—contributed an editorial…… Read More
MSN: Comcast Has Another Sneaky Price Increase
Data from ILSR is used to report on internet service price increases by the telecom giants.… Read More