Broadband Internet connectivity is a critical issue in every community across America, the mystery in how communities get connected was the springboard for this show...
The United States Congress just passed a bill that is ostensibly aimed at solving a community banking regulatory issue, what actually happened argues anti-monopoly reporter...
The Portland Mercury News reporter Erik Henriksen wrote a comprehensive feature detailing the possibility of Portland, Oregon investing in a municipal broadband network for the...
From Whole Foods to cloud computing to manufacturing commonly bought household goods, Amazon is everywhere in our economy. This article from The Guardian from Olivia Solon and...
Mark Howell, the Chief Information Officer for the town of Concord, Massachusetts wrote an article for The Washington Post, detailing the steps that his community has...
In an update to municipal recycling, “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” broadcast from WAMU out of Washington D.C. reached out to Neil Seldman, the co-founder of...
Fairlawn, Ohio’s Fairlawn Gig is a great example of a municipal broadband project that is connecting it’s community to high-speed, affordable Internet access. Andrea Fox...
As we’ve documented countless times since the release of our electric vehicle report last year, these EVs are going to change the relationship that customers...
In this story for Circa, reporter Fernando Hurtado details the rent increase for small businesses in a number of different metro areas, including in California areas....
In mid-April, ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative director Christopher Mitchell, took a trip to Boulder, Colorado to speak at a conference hosted by the University...
Things are constantly changing in retail, from the death of some big-box stores to the growing threat of e-commerce to the re-emergence of local independent...
Earlier this year, our Energy Democracy initiative scored each state in the U.S. under the criteria of how well they enable community-owned renewable energy. This...
The Kit Carson Cooperative, an electricity provider that we’ve covered in both our Energy Democracy and Community Broadband Networks initiatives, is providing broadband access to...
Matthew Marcus published this opinion piece in The Daily Yonder in March on the upcoming federal auction for rural broadband dollars.… Read More
In Andalusia, Alabama & Coulee Dam, Washington members of the each city council were interested in learning more about municipal broadband and how it could...