ILSR's Christopher Mitchell speaks to StateScoop on why fiber matters in debate over Internet access technologies
A bill in the Rhode Island House could level the state's grocery playing field, and encourage other states to join the fight against monopoly power.
Contribute to the scholarship fund at the 9th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum.
This post breaks down how state-level policies passed in 2024 informed ILSR’s 2025 Community Power Scorecard.
On Talking Headways, Stacy Mitchell talks with Jeff Wood about how the rules that govern our built environment have fueled corporate concentration and harmed democracy
A study found California's rooftop solar saved non-solar customers over $1 billion in 2024, rebutting the utility industry's "cost-shift" myth.
ILSR in collaboration with partners in Maryland has developed a pilot composter course for anyone interested in supporting composting initiatives in their communities.
Community composters continue to assert themselves as a growing and integral sector within the composting industry. At the COMPOST2025 Annual Conference and Tradeshow, hosted by...
Financial disclosures from tech corporations have hidden the telltale evidence of their monopoly power and their strategies for gaining it. Here's how to fix that.
ILSR outlines the economy-strengthening benefits of city and state partnerships with local independent business alliances.
Andrew Van Dam of the Washington Post's Department of Data explores the numbers behind American Small businesses with help from ILSR's Stacy Mitchell
Now that New York’s Affordable Broadband Act is set to take effect, it marks a potentially pivotal moment for other states to enact their law...
The City of Sherwood is cultivating a digital vineyard across Oregon’s “Gateway to Wine Country” with its municipally-owned and operated fiber network.
New York State officials have u.nveiled the first round of broadband deployment grants made possible by the state’s $100 million Affordable Housing Connectivity Program
When Jimmy Carter was president in 1979, one of the two nuclear reactors at the Three Mile Island nuclear complex near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania partially melted...