A bill to clarify California state law to ensure that all retailers with a physical presence in the state collect sales tax on internet transactions...
While many parts of the country are overrun with chain stores, San Francisco remains a stronghold for locally owned businesses, according to a new study,...
Be suspicious of megamall subsidy Federal tax law discourages individual investment and local ownership of turbines. By David Morris, originally published in the Minneapolis Star...
Stacy Mitchell's cover story for The Nation looks at how Amazon is a radically new kind of monopoly, and what we should do about it.
A survey of 2,602 independent business owners across the U.S. has found that the Buy Local message is boosting customer traffic and improving the outlook...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 6, 2014) — A survey of 2,602 independent business owners across the U.S. has found that the Buy Local message is boosting...
“(W)ithout power and independence, a town may contain good subjects, but it can have no active citizens.” That was the conclusion of Alexis de Tocqueville...
For 100 years, most decisions about the U.S. electric grid have been made at the top by electric utilities, public regulators, and grid operators. That...
In early December, the city of Cortez, Colorado, released a request for proposals in their search for a private sector partner to help bring last mile fiber...
In an effort to raise funds, thousands of public schools are encouraging parents and neighbors to shop on-line. More than a dozen new companies, such...
Paola Santana, founder of G-Commerce, talks to BLP about using a human-centered approach to fix a broken government purchasing system.
Local officials in Columbia County, Georgia, wanted better public safety communications, synchronized traffic signals, and better connectivity for government facilities. They decided the best strategy...
In response to the reintroduction of the Marketplace Fairness Act in the U.S. Senate today, Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance released the...
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 146 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Ted Deriso on the Mid-Atlantic Broadband...
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 146 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Ted Deriso on the Mid-Atlantic Broadband...