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Local Energy Rules is a biweekly podcast about monopoly power, energy democracy, and how communities can take charge to transform the energy system. Our audience is researchers, grassroots organizers, ...

Download this list as a PDF you can print and distribute. 1. Local Character and Prosperity. In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and ...

The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act represented one of the largest ever investments in broadband infrastructure. Many in the digital equity space believed the bill would go a long way to ...

Chain dollar stores’ poor labor practices have gotten Congress’s attention. In April 2022, Sen. Patty Murray, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, asked the CEOs of ...

Danny Caine. Picture this hypothetical with me. Your community is home to one of the country’s premier manufacturers of ballpoint pens. This local business has long been a community anchor, employing ...

Podcast (buildinglocalpower): Play in new window | Download This episode is the first in our new season of Building Local Power, The New Class, where we are talking to interesting changemakers among ...

The 2020 edition of ILSR’s Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom report analyzes the latest data available from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate broadband competition ...

Mayor Kapszukiewicz: We know when it began, it turned Dorr Street from the unrivaled hub of African American life in Toledo, full of shops and stores and camaraderie and family and economic energy ...

Uwe Brandes: Our work was able to really elevate those local perspectives in a way that just hadn’t been, really ever, before. We were able to translate these community-based conversations into a ...

It’s no secret that cities with multiple locations of the same chain often have “a good one” and “a bad one.” Characteristics of “The Bad Target” include longer lines, dirtier facilities, fewer ...

Rural America has lagged economically behind major metros in recovering from COVID-19, slowing growth across the region. In a lively conversation, Pittman shares the ways Wilson, N.C. has found ways ...