How consumers pay for the sweetheart electricity deals given by monopoly utilities to tech giants on multibillion-dollar data center expansions.
Stacy Mitchell shared with The Times that residents of rural and lower-income communities, and the independent grocers that serve them are endangered by rampant consolidation.
ILSR's Stacy Mitchell argues that we must enforce fair competition in order for investments in locally owned grocery stores to really pay off.
ILSR's Chris Mitchell shares insights on the mission and vision of the Tribal Broadband Bootcamps he partnered in forming with Matthew Rantanen.
ILSR co-director, John Farrell, discusses his recent report on the costs imposed on society from granting private exclusive power over the public resource of electricity.
ILSR senior researcher and policy advocate, Ron Knox, explains why buying concert tickets is such a nightmare, and how the government is stepping in.
ILSR co-director, John Farrell, urges boldness from city leaders in energy utility negotiations to extend service agreement that expires at year's end.
Utilities often oppose customer-driven, third-party-owned energy projects like community solar because they threaten to supplant utility investments and utility shareholder profits.
The Federal Trade Commission found that big retailers threatened to punish suppliers unless they got first dibs on food and household goods.
A federal affordable Internet program is ending. But muni-owned broadband networks have figured out how to deliver affordable high-speed Internet access themselves.
Stacy Mitchell defends the FTC blocking the Kroger-Albertsons merger citing grocery market concentration already causing skyrocketing food prices.
“The outsized power of big retailers is damaging the entire food system,” said Stacy Mitchell, co-executive director at ILSR.
Evan Malmgreno covers Tribes using federal grants to create their own Internet providers, and how it takes more than money to get a community online.
Karl Ebert cites the ILSR Community Solar Tracker to contextualize the debate in Wisconsin over community solar programs.
Clare Miflin and Samantha MacBride use ILSR's Community Composter Census to contrast the rise of community composting programs with Mayor Adams' proposed budget cuts.
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