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ILSR Press Releases and Selected Media Coverage
NEW BRIEF: Tax Dodging is a Monopoly Tactic
Reggie Rucker
March 30, 2023
“It’s time to revisit and reimagine the proactive role tax policy can have in enabling fair competition, tackling concentrated markets and in turn driving productivity and innovation, lowering prices, and fueling more and better jobs,” says Susan Holmberg, a co-author of th READ MORE
StarTribune: Utility Lobbying Violates Ratepayers' Free Speech
Maria McCoy
March 23, 2023
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
Andrew Frank
March 22, 2023
ILSR's Clarissa Libertelli authored an article in BioCycle on the Composting for Community initiative's first-ever Community Composter Census... READ MORE
Media Release: New Survey Reveals Community Composting is a Rapidly Growing Sector in the Recycling Industry
Reggie Rucker
March 22, 2023
The community composting sector could create nearly as many new jobs as currently exists in the coal mining industry, according to the new report released by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). READ MORE
The New York Times: As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Say No
Andrew Frank
March 1, 2023
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
Andrew Frank
February 8, 2023
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?
Andrew Frank
February 2, 2023
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
“Antitrust enforcers are again embracing their responsibility,” Stacy Mitchell Says of DOJ Lawsuit Against Google in Online Ads Market
January 24, 2023
Mitchell proclaims in the statement, "Google actively extracts resources from communities that need them most and threatens a free, local press that lies at the heart of our democracy.” READ MORE
The Daily Yonder: Do You Really Have the Broadband the FCC Thinks You Have?
Andrew Frank
December 22, 2022
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
ILSR Urges Environmental Protection Agency to Prioritize Grants in Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities
Katie Kienbaum
December 13, 2022
Katie Kienbaum, Senior Researcher for ILSR's Energy Democracy Initiative made the following statement on the importance of submitting these comments to the agency. READ MORE