Telecompetitor, November 13, 2012 The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has created a fact sheet that could help organizers of community broadband networks garner support for their projects. The two-page document includes examples of how community broadband networks in eight states have helped attract business to or retain businesses in their communities. “Community-owned networks often deliver the … Read More
Blandin on Broadband, November 11, 2012 Chris Mitchell at the Local Institute for Local Self Reliance has created a nice fact sheet that discusses the jobs that were enabled by public investments various communities. I’m going to give a cheater version – and suggest that you take a look at Chris’s fact sheet for more info… … Read More
Jackson Free Press, November 9, 2012 The nation’s largest natural and organic grocery chain has begun building its first location in Mississippi, set to open in the fall of 2013. Whole Foods broke ground at Highland Village in northeast Jackson Thursday. Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. and city council members Margaret Barrett-Simon and Quentin Whitwell joined Guy … Read More
Indianapolis Star, November 3, 2012 Since 2008, Indianapolis has striven to be the greenest city in the Midwest. But with a curbside recycling rate of 10% and an incinerator contract that requires 300,000 tons of combustible trash a year, the city has had difficulty achieving its goal. ILSR President Neil Seldman was interviewed for this piece … Read More
Balle, October 31, 2012 Occasionally we’ll be sharing our blog space with guest voices from the Localist movement. These are the best of the best, the most awesome of the most awesome, and the all-around most interesting people we know. Here’s our first guest blog post, by Stacy Mitchell, a senior researcher with the Institute for … Read More
Midwest Energy News, October 26, 2012 As energy market forces continue to shift, Minnesota’s largest utility now foresees meeting modestly growing electricity needs primarily with natural gas and hydropower imported from Canada. Xcel Energy, which serves about 1.4 million customers in Minnesota, has filed major revisions to its latest long-range plan twice since 2010. The picture … Read More
Forbes, October 24, 2012 Forbes’ CIO Network carried this article co-authored by our own Christopher Mitchell and Todd O’Boyle, the Program Director for the Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause. The same article also ran on the CommonBlog under the title “Debunking ALEC, Broadband Edition.” Not long ago, the United States led the world in … Read More
Daily Yonder, October 22, 2012 Chanute, Kansas, two hours from Tulsa, Joplin, and Kansas City, is home to about 9,100 people. As has been true in much of the rural U.S., existing telephone and cable companies were slow to upgrade broadband service here. But local leaders decided broadband was too important to wait for and embarked … Read More
Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal, October 20, 2012 LEWISTON — “I put a lot of my making-the-world-better energy into becoming a better consumer,” said Stacy Mitchell, a researcher and writer at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which challenges corporate consolidation of the economy. “(But) what we really need to do is change the underlying policies that affect the … Read More
