Oasis Fresh Market has opened its doors at the ARCO Apartment in downtown, ending a food desert of more than a decade. Regular business hours will begin Sept. 28.

Madison County residents were told that Amazon’s data centers would pay significant property taxes that would boost school and government budgets. But the actual amount may be lower than was…

ILSR's virtual event explains restrictive covenants, a type of sneaky lease clause used by big chains to keep competitors out.

Trump's proposed SBA size standards could accelerate the corporate consolidation the agency was established to fight

Politicians and the press shouldn’t fall for Paramount’s bullying tactics and blatant lies

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Three years after Amazon caught a federal monopoly lawsuit, sellers say the company’s fees and policies are even worse.

Amazon.com Inc. is facing a possible lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission that may lead to billions of dollars in civil penalties, over claims the e-commerce giant misled advertisers, accordin...

OPINION: To help address rising costs, California should update its 119-year-old antitrust law and curb monopoly abuse by dominant firms, including Big Tech.

California cities are paying high costs to clean up water pollution running off parking lots. Environmental groups say the state needs to hold businesses accountable.

Emails between the Pennsylvania governor’s office and Amazon illustrate the difficulty of courting big business as anti-AI fervor explodes.

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Safeguarding community self-determination and well-being, tackling monopoly power, and building small-scale distributed alternatives are the keys to protecting communities during the data center boom.

Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

A new speed analysis published by Ookla finds that municipal broadband providers consistently leave their private Internet service provider (ISP) competition in the dust. “Small Towns, Big Speeds: How Some Municipal Broadband Providers Outperform Their ISP Peers” examined speed test data that included some of the largest municipal networks in the U.S. from December 2024 through December 2025 and compared their performance to each other and to their privately-owned ISP competitors.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law today new legislation that would provide tens of thousands of low-income households in “The Land of Enchantment” an Internet lifeline similar to ...

ILSR's guide to hosting and supporting teacher wish lists without using Amazon

Faced with calls for a general strike and ICE terror, small businesses offer safety and community.

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ILSR hosts a virtual briefing on Amazon’s growing capture of your local public dollars — and what you can do about it.

An expert's in-depth exploration of the enormous impact of mega-retailers-and what communities and independent businesses can do A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight

In 203 markets, Walmart controls 50% or more of the grocery market. No other corporation has ever amassed this much control over the food system.

With support from ILSR and other allies, California is now one step closer to enacting the strongest antimonopoly law in the country.

To help users explore how corporate concentration has reshaped food access across the United States, ILSR created an interactive map that shows food deserts alongside the location of different types…