To commemorate David Morris's life and work after his sudden passing, we're re-releasing a 2017 interview about local power ...

We are deeply saddened to share that David Morris, co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and a pioneering voice ...

Local Policy Matters: How to Grow Independent Businesses in Your City This toolkit offers independent business owners concrete tips for engaging with their city officials and advocating for policies ...

Citizens and civic leaders have very good reasons to be concerned about chain dollar stores and their impacts on their communities. Here are 17 of the most common problems that chain dollar stores ...

The pens are the best of the best with legions of devoted pen users returning again and again for all their pen needs. Your local government has budgeted $1 million for a major pen purchase. Despite ...

For decades — from the 1930s until the 1980s — the U.S. grocery industry was remarkably competitive, with independent grocers thriving alongside large chains like Kroger and Safeway. Independent ...

This episode is the first in our new season of Building Local Power, The New Class, where we are talking to interesting changemakers among the state and local politicians newly elected in November ...

The 2020 edition of ILSR’s Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom report analyzes the latest data available from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate broadband competition ...

In 2000, Uwe Brandes moved to Washington, D.C. to join Mayor Williams’ administration with a bold vision to transform the Anacostia River waterfront, one of the nation’s most polluted rivers at the ...

In this episode of Building Local Power, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz addresses this destruction and the long-overdue promises of renewal. With $22 million in federal funds now aimed at ...

Dr. Chandrasekher’s paper, “The ‘Good’ Starbucks: Consumer Redlining in Large American Chain Stores” aims to find the cause of this phenomenon. Inspired by her own experience shopping at two Target ...

Rural America has lagged economically behind major metros in recovering from COVID-19, slowing growth across the region. In a lively conversation, Pittman shares the ways Wilson, N.C. has found ways ...