In the quest for 100% renewable energy, the city of Boulder is looking to recommit themselves to this reality for their community. That’s why the city is fighting a municipalization campaign against their monopoly electric utility, Xcel Energy. In this discussion, Boulder Daily Camera‘s Alex Burness reached out to discuss this topic with renewable energy expert John Farrell.… Read More
With the impending proposed merger of AT&T & Time Warner, E-Commerce Times reporter David Jones reached out to national broadband expert Christopher Mitchell on the impacts a merger of this size would have on broadband competition and overall market concentration.… Read More
In the wake of the release of our landmark Amazon report and the shifts that the e-commerce giant is making into physical retail stores, a local group in Chicago decided to protest against Amazon’s moves in the taking over of our economy. Chicago Tonight, a PBS affiliate in Chicago, cited our Amazon report in their explanation of the group’s concerns.… Read More
In the wake of the release of our landmark report on Amazon’s growing stranglehold of our economy, The Nation‘s labor reporter, Michelle Chen, detailed our findings and the impacts that they have on our economy. In her article, Chen details Amazon’s effect on Main Street and competition, generally.… Read More
MassLive published a story detailing Amazon’s proposed incursion into physical retail locations and, for backing on this trend, they reached out to ILSR expert Olivia LaVecchia to offer her perspective on the trend.… Read More
In the wake of the release of our Amazon report, Janet Cho of the Cleveland Plain Dealer covered the findings from our report and detailed the growth of Amazon and what that growth means for physical retail across the Cleveland metro area.… Read More
Co.Exist covered the release of our latest report on the dominance of Amazon across our economy in this piece from Ben Schiller. Their story covers some of our largest findings.… Read More
ILSR is featured in this story from Slate on Amazon and the vast amounts of public subsidies they received that funded their sprawling empire.… Read More
On November 8th, 2016, 26 Colorado cities and counties joined 69 of their fellow communities in opting out of the restrictive, anti-municipal broadband state law, SB 152. For years, we at ILSR have been covering the developments in Colorado as voters reclaim local telecommunications authority. The media, both locally and nationally, took notice of our efforts.… Read More
