Whether German feed-in tariffs or U.S. tax incentives, opponents of solar rail at its perceived high cost. But a story making rounds this week, “why...
For its first 200 years the American Republic slowly, sometimes infuriatingly slowly and at horrific human cost (e.g. the Civil War) expanded the franchise. In...
In the 1980’s Cleveland considered garbage incineration. It was rejected, but no positive action was taken. For thirty years Cleveland’s valuable materials flowed to low-cost...
We have combined the NewRules.org and ILSR.org websites to better coordinate and publicize our work. All of the New Rules Project activity, research, and information...
When a tornado rips your town apart and destroys your home, should you have to pay extra fees to your cable provider? Of course not....
In this cover story for Sojourners Magazine, Stacy Mitchell writes that there is remarkably little evidence to support the idea that bigger banks are superior.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press, reports that the City’s last IntelliRuptor, or “smart switch,” will be installed on April 24th. No wonder EPB was named...
MPR News recently ran two stories on the trials and tribulations of new and prospective broadband networks. Conrad Wilson’s story about the continuing Monticello drama...
The United States health system consists of over 400 insurance companies and thousands of different plans. Indeed, in the early 1990s, after Taiwan concluded a...
States have the authority to design their voting systems, so long as they do not violate the Constitutional Amendments or federal laws that prohibit them...
The impact of money on politics has become increasingly pronounced as a 2012 chart by Mother Jones makes clear States, cities and the federal government...
In 2002 Google Answers responded to a question about the number of ads that Americans are exposed to each day, from radio and tv commercials...
One more report decrying the scale and potential for mischief of our large banks might pass unnoticed except for its source: the Federal Reserve System,...
Here at muninetworks.org, we continually see instances of state government preempting rights of local government to make their own decisions on broadband. It was no...
Proposals for large-scale garbage incineration are proliferating throughout the US, just as they did 30 years ago. They claim to be new and improved with...