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March 20, 2025 • Blog

The ‘well has run dry’: Property owners say Georgia trial lawyers have taken almost everything

By Chris Butler

People in corporate real estate have said that Georgia’s lack of tort reform has made doing business in the state a nightmare.

March 13, 2025 • Blog

Georgia’s ‘Jackpot Justice Juries’ prompt calls for tort reform

By Chris Butler

When criminals commit violent acts on the private properties of business owners, Georgia’s premises liability laws make those property owners civilly liable.

March 6, 2025 • Blog

Georgia landlords say they provide security, but still face legal peril

By Chris Butler

Landlords in Georgia can be held liable if someone commits a crime on their property, even if they provide adequate security.

February 18, 2025 • Blog

TORT REFORM: The Georgia law that business owners hate the most

By Chris Butler

Georgia law can hold a business owner civilly liable for a criminal act that happens on his property, one that the business owner had nothing to do with.

February 6, 2025 • Blog

Clarke County voters beg school board to not opt out of floating homestead exemption

By Chris Butler

More than 60% of voters in Clarke County said yes last fall to Georgia’s new floating homestead exemption, but the school board plans to opt out.

January 29, 2025 • Blog

‘Not allowed to know who is funding the lawsuit’

By Chris Butler

How a new legal scheme threatens Georgia's economy and even national security.

January 15, 2025 • Blog

Georgia schools spent billions in COVID-19 relief dollars, but on what, exactly?

By Chris Butler

Finding the information about who got what and at what cost is one thing, but trying to understand what it actually was is another thing.

December 4, 2024 • Blog

TORT REFORM: Gwinnett County slapped hard by Georgia Court of Appeals

By Chris Butler

Nuclear verdicts raise the costs to do business, which get passed down to customers, and ultimately force Georgians to pay what is known as a hidden tax.

October 29, 2024 • Blog

Here’s how frivolous lawsuits against truckers hurt everybody, including you

By Chris Butler

Not all lawsuits are frivolous, but those that are raise costs for all truckers, and by extension, every consumer in Georgia.

September 17, 2024 • Blog

Georgia’s childcare providers say out of control lawsuits could put them out of business

By Chris Butler

It’s increasingly difficult for Georgia’s childcare centers to find companies who will insure them.

August 8, 2024 • Blog

Previously unknown parts of Georgia’s eminent domain law surprise, displease landowners

By Chris Butler

Georgia law, as it turns out, doesn’t shield landowners from eminent domain, at least not to the extent they thought it did.

July 23, 2024 • Blog

Atlanta residents pay too much to get busted water mains

By Chris Butler

Atlanta residents pay some of the highest water rates in the nation. Yet, water main breaks deprived much of Atlanta of water for several days last month.

June 20, 2024 • Blog

Three civil servants and an embattled city auditor made May a month for waste, fraud and abuse

By Chris Butler

A review of the latest stories of waste, fraud and abuse in Georgia.

May 16, 2024 • Blog

A ritzy Mercedes, a busted mayor, and the worst Chief Financial Officer you ever saw made April a month for waste, fraud and abuse

By Chris Butler

A monthly compilation of alleged or documented stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

May 9, 2024 • Blog

Georgia brewers say they’d have more success…in North Carolina

By Chris Butler

North Carolina's population is slightly smaller than Georgia's yet they have more than twice as many breweries.

May 2, 2024 • Blog

Hybrid schools look to the future

By Chris Butler

Convention organizers said a hybrid school is one that meets a child’s individual needs and/or preferences, and they are only growing.

April 23, 2024 • Blog

Prison contraband, overpaid school bus drivers and wasted COVID-19 relief money made March a month for waste, fraud and abuse

By Chris Butler

A monthly compilation of alleged or documented stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

April 11, 2024 • Blog

Georgia’s craft brewers and customers thirst for less restrictive laws

By Chris Butler

Some Georgia craft brewers say their line of work doesn’t live up to its fullest potential. So, who or what do they believe holds them back?

April 4, 2024 • Blog

Georgia landowner’s eminent domain case could force judges to resolve long-lingering questions

By Chris Butler

The Georgia Public Service Commission ruled in favor of the railroad in an eminent domain case in Hancock County.

March 12, 2024 • Blog

Officials at yet another school district in Georgia can’t do basic arithmetic

By Chris Butler

A monthly recap of the latest stories of waste, fraud and abuse in Georgia.

February 15, 2024 • Blog

Fulton County Commissioner looks for love in all the wrong places (and three other examples of government waste, fraud and abuse)

By Chris Butler

Your monthly recap of waste, fraud and abuse in Georgia.

February 1, 2024 • Blog

Georgia’s homeless problem prompts debate of intentions vs. results

By Chris Butler

In Atlanta and Athens, residents stress how much compassion they have. But what matters more? Good intentions? Good results?

January 25, 2024 • Blog

School boards, law enforcement and Georgia Public Broadcasting all lost money

By Chris Butler

The latest stories of waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

December 7, 2023 • Blog

Missing MARTA money and crooked officers of the law headline this month’s waste, fraud and abuse

By Chris Butler

A review of the latest stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

November 9, 2023 • Blog

Georgia government employees stole Social Security funds and used taxpayer money on personal items

By Chris Butler

A monthly compilation of alleged or documented stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia

November 2, 2023 • Blog

Not just hospitals: Georgia CON laws also limit medical technologies

By Chris Butler

Certificate of Need laws prevent healthcare providers from adding medical equipment without first receiving permission from the state.

October 5, 2023 • Blog

The mayor of Atlanta and even Madea got busted wasting taxpayer money

By Chris Butler

A monthly compilation of alleged or documented stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

September 26, 2023 • Blog

Why Calhoun residents are fighting the city over tiny homes

By Chris Butler

The tiny house movement is growing rapidly in America. But a proposal in Calhoun, Georgia was rejected because of city regulations.

September 14, 2023 • Blog

Georgia civil servants were dishonest, vindictive and hid facts from the public

By Chris Butler

A monthly compilation of alleged or documented stories about waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or taxpayer-funded resources throughout Georgia.

September 7, 2023 • Blog

Why Georgia business owners must beware messages pitching a COVID-19 era tax credit

By Chris Butler

If you own a business in Georgia, then you’ve likely received messages promising thousands of dollars through something called the Employee Retention Credit.