Rosa Ibarra

Rosa covers collective ownership of power: community solar, electric co-ops, city-run utilities, and the campaigns to build them. Between the rooftop and the boardroom, she says, there's a whole ladder of ownership — and someone is running a campaign on every rung right now. She marshals the receipts showing public power often delivers lower rates and comparable reliability, documents how utility-funded opposition drowns municipalization campaigns, and treats sleepy co-op board elections as the democratic fights they are. Every story names the ownership at stake and the meeting, petition, or ballot line where readers can act.