As the FCC contemplates the fate of the Chattanooga EPB’s ability to expand to surrounding communities, some of those Tennessee communities are publicly announcing their...
Changes in solid waste management have indeed made a great social impact in the past few years. However, the Wharton School’s Social Impact report gives...
VICTORY! Over the last 6 years, the Takoma Park Young Activist Club has been campaigning to get toxic styrofoam lunch trays out of Piney Branch...
The Missouri Senate Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee voted to pass anti-local choice SB 266 on March 18th. This bill, sponsored by Senator...
There are a lot of stories on residential rooftop solar but few if any on what cities are doing to make themselves energy self-reliant by...
Q. The Supreme Court has allowed the words “under God” to continue to be included in the Pledge of Allegiance. Could you give me some...
Q. What is going on with federal sentencing? First I heard that Congress had made it very difficult for judges to mete out lenient sentences....
For the first time in four years, EPB is asking its board of directors to approve a rate increase for electric power charges, reports the...
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript to the episode 10 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Vince Jordan on the municipal fiber...
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript to the episode 10 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Vince Jordan on the municipal fiber...
In the past five years, rooftop solar has revealed the limitations of the archaic electric utility business model, as customers have found generating their own...
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for the transcript of Episode 22 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Jason Grey discusses the history of nDanville and how...
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for this transcript of Episode 163 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Tim Miles, the Technology Director at Steamboat Springs and...
On the one hand: Sky-high electricity prices. A 20th century electricity system burning fuel oil and controlled by large monopoly electric utilities. A proposed utility...
In Texas liberty trumps democracy. The Texas Supreme Court itself says so. In a recent decision, three of the five Justice majority bluntly declared. “(O)ur...