The number of community banks has declined sharply in the last decade. Most of the decline is owed to the fact that virtually no new...
The share of U.S. deposits held by the largest financial institutions has exploded from 8 percent in 1994 to 52 percent in 2018, as these...
The total number of commercial banks in the U.S. began a period of dramatic decline in the late 1980s and early 90s. … Read More
As these six graphs show, bank market share has changed dramatically between 1994 and 2018 as giant banks have come to dominate the banking sector.…...
In 2018, community-based financial institutions made 52 percent of all small business loans, even though they controlled only 16 percent of banking assets.… Read More
Berrien County, Michigan recently formally acknowledged that achieving countywide access to high-speed Internet is crucial to the county’s mission of improving quality of life for...
In the past decades, both total bank assets and total deposits have concentrated at the giant banks, those with over $100.2 billion in assets.… Read...
More than 100 U.S. cities have now set goals to transition to 100 percent renewable energy, but how are they working to make these goals...
In this week’s Community Broadband Bits podcast, we talk with Dr. Christopher Ali about rural broadband, the Internet, and the media. … Read More
Tuttle, Oklahoma, is reaping the benefits of publicly-owned broadband infrastructure. … Read More
Minnesota is the national leader in community solar, with 208 projects around the state, more than a third of all community solar projects in the...
Updates on incineration happenings around the country including Baltimore and Indianapolis. … Read More
Despite its pride in having the nation’s largest community solar program––shown by the massive poster on its headquarters front doors (the above photo)––Xcel Energy can...
Small and mid-sized financial institutions devote a greater share of their assets to small business lending than big banks.… Read More
Hosts Stacy Mitchell and Hibba Meraay talk with co-founder David Morris about ILSR’s journey over the past 45 years. They reflect on the Institute’s growth...