In The Washington Post, Written by Neil Seldman.
The decision to cut twice-a-week garbage collection to once a week is a reasonable response to budget overruns. In today’s world of tight budgets, many cities have made this transition, particularly with the introduction of recycling, which reduces the amount of garbage to be collected.… Read More
Written by Olivia LaVecchia, Published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on August 11, 2017.
“Given that Neal St. Anthony often writes about small business, it strikes me as odd that in his Aug. 5 column, ‘Proven-player Amazon takes heat as Foxconn is cheered,’ he fails to consider the ways that Amazon is stifling independent businesses and entrepreneurs.”… Read More
Arizona Local First leader Kimber Lanning published this argument in favor of small businesses in CEOs for Cities and detailed exactly why those cities do a better job when they enable a strong local business environment, using our research to undergird her arguments.… Read More
For this story in The Washington Post, reporter Perry Stein details the work of local composting in the D.C. metro area and cites our expert and co-director Brenda Platt in her coverage to gain a larger context.… Read More
Stacy Mitchell, ILSR’s co-director discusses the backtracking that Walmart has gone through with solar on their store’s rooftops, and contributes for this Marketplace piece.… Read More
Electric vehicles are gaining in prominence across America, in this piece for Midwest Energy News Andy Balaskovitz covers this trend and interviews our energy researcher Karlee Weinmann.… Read More
ILSR is quoted in this story from National Public Radio on the growing clout of Amazon and how it’s gobbling up a number of areas of our economy.… Read More
Subsidies for Amazon are a pervasive part of a lot of large communities’ economic development strategy, argues this Florida professor. In his analysis he cites our landmark Amazon report.… Read More
ILSR co-director and Amazon report co-author Stacy Mitchell was interviewed for Michigan Radio‘s StateSide radio program with the prompt that Michigan will be receiving jobs from the corporate giant. How should Michiganders feel about offering incentives to a company like them.… Read More
