Archive for the 'Government' Category

The East Longmeadow Small Business Association is working to help the Planning Board come up with some workable solutions for home business owners. The antiquated zoning laws, created in 1962, do not reflect the economic realities of the community and business world today.
Thankfully this sounds like one Planning Board that is forward thinking instead of [...]

I hope this works and that many new small and home based businesses will result. Hopefully this program won’t be all photo-op, bluster, and paperwork and that some businesses will actually start, thrive, and blossom as a result. One recent study of these “job development” programs showed 5 jobs “created” per $200,000 in [...]

In the Andy Griffith TV show, the business owners are not highly educated… think if Floyd the Barber for instance. The highly educated are teachers and, perhaps, ministers.
What about the real world in 2007? Are the ones most likely to become business owners like Floyd the Barber or someone who’s highly educated?
Here’s what some recent [...]

New York City is constantly whining about the traffic congestion downtown. They could instantly reduce congestion by up to 5,000 cars per day, but New York State Income Tax law keeps them driving in. Why? It’s not worth their while to telecommute because New York State’s greed taxes them for the income they’d earn in [...]

Here’s an interesting piece of news: The Tennessee Supreme Court Expands Workers’ Compensation Coverage To Include Telecommuting.
Basically employers allow telecommuting to save money, improve employee retention, and other benefits that accrue to the business or else they wouldn’t do it.  As such, they can’t withhold worker’s compensation coverage!  I’d bet overall there will be far [...]

If the home that is also your home office is taking a bite thanks to skyrocketing mortgage interest rates on you adjustable mortgage, help may be on the way.
Or not.
Sounds like there’s lots of paper work that needs to be simplified and one is afraid of “helping” a consumer before everyone agrees the “paperwork” is [...]

Most states allow a person to provide day care to a limited number of children before requiring licensing, etc. According to their neighbors these folks crossed the line in their home business!
In this case the neighborhood association thought their property covenants superseded state and local law in the matter.  The homeowner didn’t agree in the [...]

FDR, I believe (I usually know but I’ve got the flu today so I’ll qualify myself!), was the prez who confiscated gold and silver coins making them illegal to use. Why? People would have demanded them in exchange for debts instead of the watered down greenbacks he was planning to print to “expand the economy”.
Funny [...]

This was submitted allegedly by an anonymous “Guest House Owner”. Presumably they have to pay fees and be registered. Now they’re mad because of all the “illegal” home businesses cropping up in their neighborhood.
I understand their concern in some ways. They shouldn’t have to pay when others don’t - at least, that is, if [...]

A new study from the UK shows that nearly 9 out of 10 UK internet users have broadband access.
This number has doubled since 2003.
As the article notes, this makes starting freelance home businesses much easier than before and so England is seeing these pop up everywhere.
As a result the old way of doing things [...]