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Building Local Power — 145 episodes · page 1 of 2
The Data Centers are Coming: Bonus Episode 2 - Fighting for Our Lives
The Data Centers Are Coming: Bonus Ep. 1 - A New Lens on Community
The Data Centers Are Coming: Ep. 6 - Closing Arguments
The Data Centers Are Coming: Ep. 5 - A Better Way
The Data Centers Are Coming: Ep. 4 - Transmission (Im)possible
The Data Centers Are Coming: Ep. 3 - Contamination Without Representation
The Data Centers Are Coming: Ep. 2 - They Underestimated Us
The Data Centers Are Coming: Ep. 1 - Planting a Flag
Introducing "The Data Centers Are Coming"
Internet as a Human Right: Christopher Mitchell on Community Networks
Why Solving Waste Has To Be Local: Brenda Platt on Sustainability and Community
Why Clean Energy Is Not Enough: John Farrell on Lessons from David Morris
The Problems You Can Solve: Stacy Mitchell on David Morris’s Legacy
What Cities Can Do: Remembering David Morris
Increasing Internet Access at the Speed of Trust: Sean Gonsalves on the Digital Equity Act
The Human Side of Government Work: Paola Santana on Procurement
The Champion of Local Champions: Recast City’s Ilana Preuss
The Diner Building Community In Times of Crisis: Ladybird’s Meg Heriford
Where Things Are Happening: Ron Knox on the State(s) of Antitrust
Civil Unrest, Group Chats, and Representation: Rachel Hernandez on Governing as a First-Gen Mayor
“A Little Odd, but A Little Amazing”: Adriana Valdez Young and the Secret Mall Apartment
Taking a Risk for Rural Economic Growth with Dante Pittman
From Neighborhood Streets to City Hall with Zac Blanchard
Staying Local at the Statehouse with Tristan Rader
How Structural Racism Fuels American Monopolies
“The Bad Target”: The Rise of Consumer Redlining
A Rebalancing Act: How We Restore Local Power in 2025
The Environmental Inequity of AI
Pizza, DMs, and Solidarity: Filming the Amazon Labor Fight
Amazon, Labor, and Race
Bookstores and Local Power with BLP’s New Host, Danny Caine
The Will and the Way to Revive ‘the Mecca’
Mending Broken Promises on Dorr Street
A Heyday in the Toledo Life
Rediscovering Toledo’s Black Wall Street
Healthy Skepticism of Pharmacy Giants is Spreading
Absolute Power Corrupting Our Energy System
A National Strategy for Community Composting
DOJ Takes On Live Nation/Ticketmaster
Inside Scoop on Local News’ Future
Reviving the Riverfront, and D.C.
Essential Tools for Neighborhood Revitalization
The Seed of Local Power
Giving DC Its Flowers
New Generational Wealth in Detroit
It Takes an Avalon Village
Detroit Has No Time to Waste Food
Feeding Detroit
Writing Detroit’s Next Chapter
The City Series
How to Get Away With Merger Season Recap
Cleanup on Aisle 1990
Sparking a Community Broadband Revolution
Consolidation in the Cord-Cutting Era
Investment Funds v. A Democratic Future
New Mexicans v. Fossil Fuel Giants
BlackRock v. Black Gold
A Rotten Waste Merger
Beer Mergers Brew Disaster
How To Get Away With Merger (Season Preview)
Keeping My Public Options Open
Broadband is Good for Your Health
Left Out in the Coal
Housing Is Where the Heart Is
Composters Dreaming, Investors Scheming
Graying of the Fleet
A Country with No Farmers
A Food Oasis in North Tulsa
Toledo Takes Dollar Stores to Church
Shifting the Paradigm, One Community at a Time
Community Broadband’s Broad Appeal
Breaking Bad Energy
Unpacking the Year in Composting
A Renewable Rural America
A Short-Term Win, A Long-Term Target
A Renaissance for Black Voices and Spaces
Inflation: The True Monopoly Story
Creating New Narratives: Youth Are the Present — Episode 157 of Building Local Power
Maps Can Make or Break Communities’ Broadband Futures — Episode 152 of Building Local Power
Policy Progress and Coalition Building — Episode 151 of Building Local Power
In New York and Oregon, Canning Reduces Waste and Changes Lives — Episode 150 of Building Local Power
Building Local Power Highlight: People Love Local Food. Yet Local Farmers are Disappearing. What’s Going On?
Building Local Power Highlight: Democratizing Antitrust with Harry First
Building Local Power Highlight: Independent Musicians and the Anti-Monopoly Movement
Building Local Power Highlight: Centering Racial Justice in the Antimonopoly Fight
Building Local Power Highlight: Is Amazon Picking Winners and Losers Among America’s Cities
Building Local Power Highlight: Zephyr Teachout on Building an Antimonopoly Movement
Building Local Power Highlight: David Dayen Talks America’s Monopoly Problem
Small Businesses Rise Up
Should Big Utilities Pay for Their Bad Choices? — Episode 117 of Building Local Power
A Cornucopia of Policy Opportunities in the New Year — Episode 115 of Building Local Power
How Local Control Empowers Cities to Fight Climate Change (Episode 109)
Zephyr Teachout on Building an Antimonopoly Movement (Episode 108)
Can the People Take Power Back From Big Tech? (Episode 107)
David Dayen Talks America’s Monopoly Problem (Episode 106)
Why Our Best Opportunity to Challenge Corporate Control is at the Local Level (Episode 105)
Mainers Consider Putting Electricity, Internet in Local Hands (Episode 103)
Local Compost Enterprise Cultivates a Just and Healthy Community (Episode 102)
How Cities and States Are Stepping up to Help Small Businesses in Crisis (Episode 101)
Locally-Owned Hardware Stores Show Flexibility and Resilience in the Face of COVID-19 (Episode 100)