The people of Centennial, Colorado, will have the opportunity to vote this fall on the option to allow their city to provide indirect telecommunications services....
The Prometheus Radio Project is an impressive grassroots organization that has successfully opened the radio airwaves to communities after big corporations had effectively locked up...
It is no secret to our readers that communities throughout the country have transitioned from leasing services from big corporations to building their own fiber...
In this 30-minute interview on “This Is Hell!”, recently voted Chicago’s best talk radio show, ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell talks about how Walmart is undermining the...
In 2011, Comcast commenced its Internet Essentials program with great fanfare from then FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. We looked at the program in detail and...
Longmont’s City Council and municipal power and communications utility are getting serious about bringing fiber to the people. We reported earlier this month about the...
In a way, Walmart’s Buy America program represents the home stretch of the economic transformation the company set in motion decades ago, when it set...
Having just read the New York Times story “Most of U.S. is Wired, but Millions Aren’t Plugged In,” I was reminded that even the top...
For several decades the United States stood alone among industrialized country in still allowing criminals to be put to death. In the last 20 years,...
The Spanish Fork Community Fiber Network (SFCN) is an incredibly successful HFC cable network in Utah. It delivers television, telephone, and Internet access at incredibly...
On August 14th, Christopher Mitchell and I visited Senator Amy Kobuchar’s office in Minneapolis. We arranged the meeting in coordination with Free Press and the Media...
ILSR president, Neil Seldman, reviews a recent book by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer, Edward Humes, titled “Garbology.” Humes wisely observes, recycling is America’s last line of...
In 1985 the United States was home to 24 airlines. Today there are 7. The Justice Departments under Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush II and...
Back in 2010, we reported on the City of Baltimore and its frustration with Comcast and desire to have a real choice for Internet access....
“Caterpillar has pioneered a two-tier wage system in which workers hired after a certain date are consigned to a significantly lower wage scale than others...