People in Arkansas who depend on Medicaid for healthcare typically don’t have the option to sign-up for affordable health insurance through their jobs. Sometimes they...
ILSR built a list of grant and loan programs that helped small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
ILSR's fact sheet outlines ways your state can use policy to target monopolies that harm small businesses, communities, and consumers
Rural electric co-op members should use this new toolkit to swap coal debt for clean, affordable energy.
How much of the U.S. solar fleet is made up of smaller, distributed sources that help communities build local wealth? This 2025 update examines the...
Through and attractive pricing arrangement, the Woodruff Electric Cooperative has enticed nearly 85 percent of area farmers to allow their irrigation systems to be shut...
On this episode of the Building Local Power podcast, host Jess Del Fiacco is joined by two members of ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative: Sean...
An overflow crowd of hundreds turned out yesterday at a New York City Council hearing on the impact Wal-Mart would have if allowed to expand...
In 2015, President Obama proposed making community college free nationwide. He pointed to a pilot free tuition program just being launched by Tennessee for recent...
Host Chris Mitchell is joined by Kim Haddow for a robust conversation on preemption and Kim’s efforts to get power back into the hands of...
Two more electric cooperatives recently announced plans to build Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks to connect their rural members in the southeastern United States with high-quality Internet...
States Rights and Wrongs by David Morris June 6, 1995 July 4, 1995. Armed militias roam the countryside, threatening to shoot government agents. Citizens gather...
In an unsurprising result, voters in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, chose not to build their own FTTH network. The margin was 58% against, 42% for. According...
Last week, I joined Craig Settles on his Gigabit Nation show to discuss Chairman Genachowski’s Gigabit Challenge along with Jim Baller, Masha Zager of Broadband...
The gridlock that plagues Washington leads many, fairly or unfairly, to lump together the two parties and declare a pox on both their houses. But...