David Morris

December 18, 2017

In late October, Ajit Pai, Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, proudly announced, “We’ve been energetic in advancing the public interest…over the past nine months, the Commission has voted on 63 items at our monthly meetings, compared to 103 in the pREAD MORE

David Morris

December 15, 2017

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 high school graduates and might not have been aware of a free tuition program operatingREAD MORE

David Morris

February 26, 2018

Pell grants, awarded solely on need, are the largest single source of non-loan assistance to postsecondary education. Two thirds of Pell recipients enroll in public colleges and universities.   Fraction of tuition, fee, room and board expenses in public four-year colleges coveredREAD MORE

Nick Stumo-Langer

November 7, 2017

In May of 1991, Institute for Local Self-Reliance's co-founder David Morris was featured in Minnesota Public Television's (TPT) Portrait series on prominent Minnesotans. The video is available here in TPT's video archive. In this interview David speaks about the founding of READ MORE

Nick Stumo-Langer

June 15, 2017

In this episode of Building Local Power, host Christopher Mitchell, of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews ILSR co-founder David Morris about the history of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and why the message of local self-reliance is as relevant today as iREAD MORE

Nick Stumo-Langer

March 23, 2017

Welcome to episode fourteen of the Building Local Power podcast. In this episode, Christopher Mitchell, the director of ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews John Farrell, Stacy Mitchell, and David Morris, directors of our Energy Democracy, Community-Scaled Economies, and Public Good initiatives, reREAD MORE

David Morris

December 29, 2015

Early this year President Obama spoke before the Cleveland Club. After the speech 7th grader Alura Winfrey inquired, “If you could go back to the first day of your first term what advice would you give yourself?” Obama reflected for a mREAD MORE

Rebecca Toews

January 8, 2015

David Morris spoke at Riverside Church for the International Forum on Globalization in 1995 about local self-reliance and global trade. His words still ring true today. You can listen to the audio from the speech below, download it in yourREAD MORE

David Morris

April 29, 2011

"The word “public” has been removed from the name of the Fort Worth Library. Why? Simply put, to keep up with the times."From the Media release on the rebranding of the Fort Worth Library Fort Worth, you leave me speREAD MORE

David Morris

April 18, 2011

This commentary was also published at On the Commons. For Republican presidential candidates the phrase American Exceptionalism has taken on almost talismanic qualities. Newt Gingrich’s new book is titled, A Nation Like No Other:  Why American Exceptionalism Matters. “American the Exceptional” is theREAD MORE