We were excited to begin writing about the Upgrade Seattle campaign back in January and this week we are presenting a discussion with several people...
In late May, the nation’s first clean energy partnership between a city and its utilities released its first two-year work plan. It holds true to...
Welcome to the Archive of the American Voice 2004 Project. The bedrock of good government is an informed citizenry. American Voice 2004 was launched in...
American Voice 2004 was a project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance launched during the presidential election campaign of 2004. Strong communities depend on an...
The Village of Bald Head Island, North Carolina, recently released a Request for Proposals (RFP), in its search for an FTTP network. The Village, home...
American Voice 2004 was a project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance launched during the presidential election campaign of 2004. Strong communities depend on an...
In a 2011 CNN/Tea Party Express Republican Debate moderator Wolf Blitzer famously asked prominent libertarian Representative Ron Paul a “hypothetical question” about the soon-to-be-operational Obamacare:...
American Voice 2004 was a project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance launched during the presidential election campaign of 2004. Strong communities depend on an...
As the talk of municipal broadband grows louder in Seattle, city leaders are gathering to learn more about what deploying at a fiber network may...
In an effort to extend the benefits of its gigabit network to lower income Chattanooga school kids, Mayor Andy Berke announced that the EPB will...
Back during the 2004 election ILSR’s Vice President, David Morris, took policy questions from our audience and provided detailed answers across a wide range of...
After Santa Fe found its residents and businesses were often paying the same rates for connections at half the speed of peers in Albuquerque, the...
When Westminster, a community of 18,000 in rural Maryland, found itself with poor Internet access that incumbents refused to improve, it decided to join the...
In his Sunday Wall Street Journal commentary on May 17, Brian Potts suggests that cost is the bottom line in the electric customer shift to...
Shlomo Dowen of GAIA-Europe provided this article from Edward Perchard on Denmark’s transition away from its network of 26 garbage incinerators that lead the country...