Commentaries
How Cities Are Adapting to the Mobility Revolution (Episode 90)
Jess Del Fiacco
January 23, 2020
Host John Farrell is joined by ILSR Senior Fellow David Morris to talk about how new transportation technologies are changing how cities prioritize public space.READ MORE
To Save the Internet We Must Own the Networks
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
The Movement for Free College Tuition Is Growing
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

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Education - The Public Good Index
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
Alive from the Archives
Video from the ILSR Archives: David Morris Speaks to TPT's Portrait Series
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
Why Local Self-Reliance? (Episode 22)
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
Breaking Through Partisanship: Left-Right-Local (Episode 14)
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
Obama’s Two Mistakes That Lost the Country
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
"The Secret Side of Global Trade" - David Morris, International Forum on Globalization
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
All Hail the PUBLIC Library
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
The Real American Exceptionalism
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