Vox, September 11, 2015 In my last post, I explained the core problem facing US electric utilities: They are still structured as monopolies that bundle...
WFAE, September 4, 2015 Salisbury, North Carolina – population just shy of 34,000 – can now lay claim to the title of “city with the...
Market Watch, September 4, 2015 When Louis Gray bought his two-story Sunnyvale, Calif., home in 2010, a solar power array was already in his plans....
American Banker, September 4, 2015 National Credit Union Administration officials will likely reflect on 2015 as the year they were inundated by comment letters. The...
American Booksellers Association, September 3, 2015 Advocates for Independent Business (AIB), a coalition of trade associations, including the American Booksellers Association, and other organizations representing...
Techwire, July 24, 2015 In Richmond, Calif., hundreds of low-income residents log on to the city’s free Wi-Fi network every day. The network was launched...
Santa Monica Daily Press, July 16, 2015 The City of Santa Monica was highlighted in a new policy agenda from Next Century Cities as a...
The Stranger, July 14, 2015 Wondering what a city wired with its own democratically controlled fiber internet network looks like? Look no further than the...
WABE Radio, July 14, 2015 Comcast is now offering residential customers its high-speed fiber Internet service. It’s one of the fastest and most expensive Internet...
Communications Daily, July 13, 2015 Colorado’s cities and towns are responding in a variety of ways to the state’s 2005 law restricting a municipality’s right to...
KOIN TV, July 10, 2015 SANDY, Ore. — The city of Sandy is providing city owned, high speed Internet to its residents. It’s something many...
Denver Post, July 8, 2015 The board of Intermountain Rural Electric Association, Colorado’s biggest electric cooperative, is proposing a new — and potentially groundbreaking —...
Government Technology, June 25, 2015 The state of Maine is firmly committed to municipal broadband — it just doesn’t want to pay for it. If...
IndyWeek, May 20, 2015 The lawsuit—technically, a “petition for review”—the state of North Carolina filed in federal court last week is, for a case rooted...
In our op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, we look at how much of our public policy seems to designed to bend the market in...