WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 12, 2025) — Judge Furman granted the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s motion to unseal previously redacted details in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) complaint ...
Amazon has quietly captured a growing share of government purchasing. This major report explains how, and what to do about it ...
Learn about pending Minnesota legislation to enable distributed power plants and their potential impact on energy affordability. For this bonus episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John ...
ILSR has long recognized that stripping communities of their capacity and concentrating power in distant boardrooms would inevitably destabilize democracy. Along the way, that consolidation has also ...
Fifteen years ago, Western Massachusetts residents in the small hill towns that dotted the most rural parts of the state were faced with an increasingly stark choice. To stay where they and their ...
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently approved the sale of Allete Energy to private equity firm BlackRock and a Canadian pension fund. The Citizen’s Utility Board of Minnesota fought ...
You’d think a company with as many resources, employees, and facilities as AT&T or Comcast would have good customer service. Surely, with all the billions of dollars flowing through these businesses, ...
One way to build local power is to catalyze change directly in your community. Another, equally important method is to catalyze the catalysts. To really make change and build sustainable local ...
More than almost any other factor, a community’s planning and land use laws and policies affect its success — or failure — in cultivating and supporting small, locally owned businesses. Below, we ...
In late 2024, Rachel Hernandez ran a successful campaign to become mayor of Riverbank, California. A small town at the top of the state’s central valley, Riverbank may not fit into what you imagine as ...
Distributed solar, which can be owned by individuals, small businesses, and public entities, is turning the electricity industry upside down as individuals choose to generate their own solar power on ...
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 ...
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