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May 8, 2025 • Commentary

Why are so many data centers popping up in Georgia?

By J. Thomas Perdue

Data centers are facilities filled with thousands of computers that work constantly to store and process information.

January 29, 2025 • Blog

Personal responsibility drives public policy

By Kyle Wingfield

Good public policy can point the way, but personal responsibility has to take it from there.

January 23, 2025 • Commentary

Kemp makes strongest push yet for tort reform

By Kyle Wingfield

Kemp delivered an unusual, not-so-thinly-veiled threat: a special session later this year if lawmakers don’t act on his top priority.

January 15, 2025 • Blog

A new legislative session begins as Kemp enters final biennium

By Kyle Wingfield

Kemp is Georgia’s first governor to be finishing a second consecutive term while clearly eyeing future elected office.

October 24, 2024 • Commentary

Protect our kids without government overreach

By J. Thomas Perdue

New technologies intersect with every policy area, and rapid technological advancements often leave policy makers feeling as if they need to play keep-up.

August 22, 2024 • Commentary

Market correction shows the need for reform for Georgia’s teacher pension

By Jen Sidorova

Georgia’s teacher pension is not out of the woods and still poses a major risk of unexpected runaway costs.

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.

July 10, 2024 • Commentary

Congress should increase oversight on runaway bureaucrats

By Kyle Wingfield

Estimates put the cost of regulations on American businesses at $2 to $3 trillion.

June 27, 2024 • Commentary

Should the General Assembly regulate AI?

By J. Thomas Perdue

We have far more to gain from AI than we have to lose, and policymakers should embrace the opportunity.

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.

June 13, 2024 • Commentary

Tort reform and Georgia’s judicial nightmare

By J. Thomas Perdue

In 2023, Georgia had the dubious honor of topping the American Tort Reform Association’s list of the country’s “Judicial Hellholes.”

June 5, 2024 • Blog

Confidence in the justice system needed

By Kyle Wingfield

Every American ought to want our legal system to be operating at the highest possible level, with strong public confidence. That isn’t the case at this moment.

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 15, 2024 • Commentary

America needs a sane regulatory environment

By Kyle Wingfield

Vogtle Units 3 and 4 are the first completely new nuclear reactors brought online in this country in more than three decades.

May 2, 2024 • Commentary

To impact change, look local

By J. Thomas Perdue

Instead of repeatedly pushing the rock up the hill that is the federal government, Kimberley Strassel urges us to think more locally.

May 1, 2024 • Blog

Georgia elections are better-positioned than ever before

By Kyle Wingfield

When it comes to voting in Georgia, the likelihood of error has gone down as processes and procedures have been tightened up.

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 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.

April 3, 2024 • Commentary

One legislative term under new leadership is now complete

By Kyle Wingfield

This year, even as night fell, both the House and the Senate went much longer stretches than usual without legislating

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.

March 7, 2024 • Commentary

2024 legislative session enters final stretch

By Chris Denson

With Crossover Day now in the rearview and candidate qualifying ending this week, what will the final weeks of this session hold?

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 27, 2023 • Blog

11 biggest stories of 2023

By Brett Kittredge

As we prepare to welcome in a new year, here is a review of our most read and most shared stories of 2023.

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 15, 2023 • Blog

There is wisdom in the past

By Kyle Wingfield

Americans are accustomed by now to hearing, and maybe even believing, that the stakes are higher than ever. But is it true this time?

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

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.

October 4, 2023 • Blog

Protecting non-profit organizations from the IRS

By Athan Clark

Georgia Public Policy Foundation signed an amicus brief that defends the rights of Americans to support the causes they believe in without fear of harassment.