In the News: Christopher Mitchell October 26, 2017 Media Outlet: StateScoop In the run-up to Seattle’s mayoral election on November 7th, 2017 the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s Community Broadband Networks initiative team pointed to the commitment Comcast is pouring into the race to buy favorable decisions by the local government. The publication StateScoop noticed. Shortly after this story was … Read More
In the News: Christopher Mitchell October 25, 2017 Media Outlet: Motherboard Vice For years, indeed since Colorado enacted SB 152 as part of a Comcast-funded effort to limit municipal broadband investment, we’ve seen Big Telecom’s interest in local elections grow. This year’s Fort Collins ballot question has been subject to hundreds of thousands in spending from the … Read More
In the News: Christopher Mitchell October 23, 2017 Media Outlet: International Business Times Due to the anti-municipal broadband bill introduced by Michigan state representative Michele Hoitenga, the International Business Times investigated the top donors to Hoitenga’s election bid and found that Big Telecom affiliates, such as the companies themselves and associations that lobby for their interests, sat … Read More
In the News: Stacy Mitchell October 20, 2017 Media Outlet: USA Today USA Today’s Elizabeth Weise delves into the growing strength of Amazon’s Prime subscription service, including survey results that suggest it is in 3/4 of American homes. In her coverage, Weise reached out to Stacy Mitchell, ILSR’s co-director and the director of the Community-Scaled Economies initiative … Read More
In the News: Christopher Mitchell October 20, 2017 Media Outlet: Telecompetitor Ideas are bubbling up in two major West Coast cities to invest in a municipal fiber network, MuniNetworks.org researchers have been covering these ideas for years now and Telecompetitor’s Joan Engebretson covered them in detail. For her story, Engebretson spoke to ILSR’s director of the Community … Read More
In the News: Stacy Mitchell October 17, 2017 Media Outlet: Morning Consult In a poll of American adults, Morning Consult found that majorities of each subgroup were generally favorable to Amazon locating its second headquarters to their community, “including 72 percent each of suburbanites and urbanites and 70 percent of rural dwellers.” However, as Joanna Piacenza from the Morning … Read More
In the News: Christopher Mitchell October 17, 2017 Media Outlet: Michigan Radio Michigan state representative Michele Hoitenga (R-Manton), introduced a bill into the state legislature that would cut off all possible funding (federal, state, and local) that communities could invest in bettering their connectivity. This revelation set of a firestorm of publicity against the bill and Virginia Gordan … Read More
In the News: Stacy Mitchell October 15, 2017 Media Outlet: The New York Times The tech giant Amazon has come under quite a bit of criticism as of late. At The New York Times,tech reporter Cecilia Kang covers how Amazon is responding to this criticism, by heavily increasing their lobbying efforts. In this story, our own co-director and the … Read More
