“Unlike the public sector, the private sector is bred for efficiency. Left to its own devices, it will always find the means to provide services...
Would Republicans Destroy Even Good Government Programs? by David Morris November 21, 1995 When President Clinton assumed office he promised to reinvent government by making...
“It’s the most inspirational work that I’m doing…this is an inspirational and aspirational effort…at the heart of it is love of place and energy democracy.”...
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for Episode 24 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Dr. Michael Browder explains how Bristol, Tennesee built...
Win or lose, Bernie Sanders has made this Democratic primary the most substantive in my lifetime. Not that Hillary Clinton’s campaign is devoid of ideas....
Marin County and the city of San Rafael, California, have built a Wi-Fi mesh network in the city’s Canal neighborhood to connect over 2,000 students...
In response to the increased reliance on connectivity precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Minnesota Legislature is working on legislation to improve access to broadband,...
Marshall Steinbaum, a labor economist and research director at the Roosevelt Institute, sits down with Stacy Mitchell to discuss what is keeping American’s wages low...
It is with deep sadness that I share the news of David Buckel’s passing. This morning David set himself on fire in Brooklyn, New York,...
Berkeley, California wins a court battle to protect their historic Post Office buildings; protections for gig economy workers are passed by the California Supreme Court;...
Sarita Gupta of Jobs With Justice joins us to discuss the state of labor rights in the “gig economy” and how the care sector presents...
In this episode of Local Energy Rules, we revisit an earlier episode from our archives in which ILSR’s Director of Energy Democracy, John Farrell speaks...
ILSR built a list of grant and loan programs that helped small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Treasury recently released the guidelines governing the Capital Projects Fund (CPF) — a $10 billion pot of money available to states, territories, and Tribal governments...
After two decades of a headlong rush to single stream recycling collection programs across the US, are they still the best positioned to take us...