Airbnb rentals are creating challenges for existing local regulations. By Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia
Like many cities, Troy is trying to figure out how Airbnb rentals fit into the existing legal and regulatory environment. Technology offers new ways to organize our economy to improve our lives. Hopefully our laws and regulations will accommodate such new ventures.
Airbnb is an online home sharing platform launched in 2008. People can rent out…
School children in select school systems in Alabama are on a free school lunch and breakfast program under USDA.
Several dozen Alabama school districts are offering free lunches to all students this year. Economists have long claimed that “There’s no such thing as a free lunch!” Although I don’t think that Alabama schools have proven economists wrong, this case illustrates a challenge of limiting government.
School systems offering free lunches this year, according to…
Dr. Dan Sutter will lead the Sorrell College of Business Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy.
Dr. Dan Sutter has been appointed director of the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University. He has served in an interim basis for the past year.
“Dr. Sutter has played a pivotal role in teaching and research since the Johnson Center’s founding and will provide leadership that will set the stage…
Thomas Jefferson, in an official portrait as President of the United States by Rembrandt Peale.
My Dad used to say that it’s better to keep quiet and let people think that you are stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Sorry, Dad, I didn’t follow your advice.
Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, helps illustrate the problem.Disagreement on values and ideas…