A conversation between ILSR and Main Street America based on ILSR's new report outlining ideas for using American Rescue Plan money to support small businesses.
In Governing, ILSR's Kennedy Smith and Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty examine how cities can create affordable space for local businesses and support entrepreneurship.
West Virginia addresses composting in a novel way: it categorizes acceptable farm and facility feedstock types more broadly than most states. Since 1997, it has...
President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order aimed at undoing concentrated corporate control and ending decades of consolidation across the economy.
In 2011, the City of Austin set a goal of a 75% diversion rate for solid waste by 2020 and a 90% diversion rate by...
Biden's executive order marks a turning point in the fight against monopoly power. It includes more than 70 provisions, many of which reflect ILSR’s priorities.
Dozens of locally based alternatives to the big third-party delivery apps have debuted during the pandemic, proving that in the food-delivery sector, local is better.
Here are the ten short-and-sweet reasons why supporting independent businesses is critical to the well-being of our communities and our economy.
We lay out 24 policy recommendations across a 6-point agenda to enable independent businesses to weather the pandemic and thrive and grow in its aftermath.
ILSR Senior Researcher Kennedy Smith talked to the Mayors' Institute on City Design about how to help Main Street businesses survive the pandemic.
Small business funding is running out. Congress should address the crisis facing small business by quickly providing the resources local governments need to support them.
ILSR built a list of grant and loan programs that helped small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here are the steps local and state governments have taken so far to shelter small businesses from the coronavirus’s vast economic turmoil.
In our latest Local Energy Rules podcast, John Farrell joins leaders from Farmers Electric Cooperative in Iowa and Kit Carson Electric Cooperative in New Mexico,...
Boston is the latest city to introduce a formula business proposal, which would make national chains a conditional use throughout the city.