The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative, a four-year-old, statewide grant and loan program for grocery store development, has financed over 50 independent grocery stores and...
The Republicans keep handing the Democrats a winning election issue. And the Democrats keeping refusing to accept the gift. I hope the beginning of the...
Republicans Have Handed Democrats a Winning Election Issue By David Morris, originally published in Alternet, August 20, 2008 The Republicans keep handing the Democrats a...
ILSR launches NetworkStPaul.com. This new web site will serve as a clearinghouse and resource for the push to build a community-owned fiber-to-the-home network in St....
Al Gore’s heroic speech challenging us to make our electrical system 100 percent renewable promised it would simultaneously address three major crises: the weak economy,...
Five years after the project was first introduced, the homeowners group, University Park Estates Neighborhood Association, has thwarted plans for a 140,000-square-foot Home Depot in...
ILSR vice president, David Morris, responds to Al Gore’s recent speech proposing a 10 year effort to move the United States to a 100% renewable...
This August 2008 report by David Morris and John Farrell was sponsored by the Ford Foundation. The next 20 years could generate as much as...
When Local Became the New Organic By David Morris, originally published in Minnesota Law and Politics, August 2008 We can pinpoint with some precision the...
Shopping center construction continues at a furious pace, even as chain retailers announce plans to close more than 6,500 outlets and vacancy rates soar.… Read...
At a time when most of the United States has slower, more expensive Internet connections than our overseas competitors, communities across the country have responded...
City on solid ground in lawsuit By Christopher Mitchell, originally published in the Monticello Times, July 31, 2008 At a time when most of...
For Immediate Release PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: 612-276-3456 MONTICELLO, MINN. FIGHTS TDS LAWSUIT Minneapolis, Minn.— (July 23, 2008). Monticello has filed a motion to dismiss...
Christopher Mitchell appeared on the Mark Heaney Show on Air America Radio to discuss the Monticello Fiber Net lawsuit and the importance of publicly owned...
Minneapolis, Minn.— (July 23, 2008). Monticello has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit preventing it from building the fiber optic network 74% of voters...