For years, chain retailers have exploited a loophole present in the tax laws of about half the states to escape paying billions of dollars in...
Doing so would ease budget shortfalls and restore a measure of fairnessfor small businesses, which lack access to these loopholes and end upshouldering a heavier...
Many retail chains, including Victoria’s Secret and Toys "R" Us, earn profits at stores nationwide, but have developed an accounting scheme to evade paying their...
How to reform the tax system to help small businesses - essential for robust economies, community well-being, and healthy democracies - compete on a level...
A conversation about AI policy, emergent systems, distributed knowledge, and why the things that are easiest to measure “might not be the right things to...
Today, in the New York Times small business blog, Robb Mandelbaum examines the membership of the National Federation of Independent Businesses has plummeted and takes...
In May, Vermont became the seventeenth state in the nation to close a loophole that major chain retailers are using to evade paying state income...
Another great video from Australia makes many salient points regarding the debate over their national broadband network. One key point to take away is that...
A deep dive into one of the most successful municipal fiber networks in the country—and what other communities can learn from it
A proposed data center galvanizes resistance in a small West Virginia community, sparking a fight over state vs. local control.
Chelan is in a rural region of Washington state and was a pioneer in rural fiber networks, investing high-speed connections for citizens and businesses long...
The Missoula Valley Internet Cooperative has successfully raised funds and designed, deployed, and launched a wireless mesh network delivering 150 Megabit per second (Mbps) symmetrical service to more than...
Explore the latest quarterly update on community solar capacity.
NOLA’s Community Lighthouse initiative creates local hubs with rooftop solar and portable batteries to save lives after storms.
What makes faith communities such attractive hosts for resilience hubs?
ILSR built a list of grant and loan programs that helped small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s time to revisit and reimagine the proactive role tax policy can have in enabling fair competition,” says Susan Holmberg, a co-author of the report.
Elon Musk's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis reflects a historical pattern of corporations siting polluting facilities in poor or Black neighborhoods.
Rules to encourage wireless networks – offering both universal and hotspot coverage. Some are owned by the local government, other are groups of citizen activists...