One of the many states where legislators introduced broadband bills in 2018 was Ohio, where HB 378 appeared to offer a promising answer to funding...
Next Century Cities is busy organizing another get-together for broadband advocates, community leaders, and policy gurus. “New England Connect: Local Solutions for Broadband Development” will...
In 2016, the digital economy declared a war on cash. In 2018 the people are fighting back, and governments are worried.… Read More
Just outside of Detroit, Michigan, Grosse Pointe communities and institutions are considering whether to work with local Internet service provider Rocket Fiber to build an institutional network (I-Net).… Read...
One man’s perspective on stories that matter. Look for these posts on ILSR.org and the landing page for my work, From the Desk of David Morris. Table...
Pay As You Throw (PAYT) a proven global waste metering system is the vital first step to reaching Zero Waste. For all those municipal leaders...
Burlington Telecom (BT), the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) ISP in Burlington, Vermont, has been celebrating two pieces of recent good news. The ISP received praise from customers...
Local fall referendums are still a few months away, but at least four additional Colorado communities have decided to put local broadband authority on the ballot....
Spanish Fork, Utah, was recently highlighted in a promotional video touting the successes of its municipal Internet service. The video, produced by the trade group Internet...
Lobbyists from the cable and telecom industry succeeded in using the legislature to firm up their rural Massachusetts monopolies this session. Communities that rely on...
The Compost Collective is an entrepreneurship program where youth are trained in workforce skills, food access programming and community-scale composting. They are receiving guided, hands-on...
Great Lakes Energy (GLE), Michigan’s largest electric cooperative and third largest energy utility, is constructing a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network to bring gigabit connectivity to its...
In the 1980s there were over thirty proposed garbage incinerators in California. By the middle of the decade all but four of them had been...
Reuse International is holding their biennial conference, ReuseConex 2018, on October 18-20, 2018 in Cincinnati, Ohio. … Read More
Interest in broadband as a utility continues to rise across the country and in places where elected officials need a show of support, grassroots groups...