A selection of recent news stories with an ILSR insight into “The Public Good.” Stories in this Newsfeed: The Privatization of Everything | Privatizing Education |...
In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews David Morris, a co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and...
The Dark Side of Privatization by David Morris January 30, 1996 From Virginia to California, privatization is in. Roads, prisons, fire departments, water departments, emergency...
One man’s perspective on stories that matter. Look for these posts on ILSR.org and the landing page for my work, From the Desk of David Morris. Table...
The bankruptcy of one of Britain’s largest government contractors has spurred a reexamination of its decades-old embrace of privatization. For many the evidence is in....
Food & Water Watch has issued a thoroughly researched report on water privatization. A survey of more than 200 public and private water systems found...
Earlier this year, Florida’s Republican Governor and legislature proposed to privatize all 26 state prisons. SB 2038 would have allowed privatization if a private company’s...
Still one more empirical study finds that privatization costs taxpayers dearly. This time the issue is school bus transportation. In a new report, Runaway Spending:...
State Supreme Courts have ruled in different ways regarding the privatization of public functions. In several cases, the Courts concluded that the civil service was...
The next time a privateer tells you how awful government is and how wonderful private corporations are, send him a copy of In the Public...
In the 19th century, small private companies in U.S. and European cities supplied water only to those who could pay a premium. Then came epidemics...
Handicapping occurs in sports to equalize the winning chances of contestants of varying abilities. Sometimes, as in horse racing, superior horses, based on past performance,...
Efforts to privatize government services in cities and states do not always save the city money, replace well paid and benefited largely unionized public workers...
The United Kingdom privatized its national rail system in 1993. Some 20 years later the unsurprising consequences of transforming a public monopoly into a private monopoly...
The Federal Government announced today (August 18th) it will stop allowing private companies to operate federal prisons. Currently private companies run 13 federal prisons. “They...