March 19, 2021
Friday Facts: March 19, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, has gauged the pulse of Georgia for reform since its early days, as this […]
Topic: 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
March 19, 2021 • Commentary
Sunshine Week, a Vital Disinfectant in Pandemic and Always
“If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
March 18, 2021 • Blog
Three Big Reasons to Protect Learning Pods in Georgia
Learning pods aren’t new, but their popularity during COVID-19 has brought them to the forefront in childhood education. Regulators in some states and districts are using this new visibility to […]
March 15, 2021 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: March 15, 2020
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. One concern amid COVID-19 lockdowns, shutdowns, mandates, sheltering at home, isolation and telemedicine is the dangerous […]
March 12, 2021
Friday Facts: March 12, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, has championed education options since its beginning. In 2012, Georgia legislators approved the State […]
March 10, 2021 • Blog
Preparing for a Return to “Normal”
To look back at my calendar this time a year ago is to relive another era. I’d just returned from a three-day conference with peers from around the country. I […]
February 26, 2021 • Commentary
Get on Board with Buses for Equitable Transit
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says one of his top priorities is addressing inequities such as “transit deserts,” particularly in communities of
February 26, 2021
Friday Facts: February 26, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Zell Miller, who was governor of Georgia before becoming U.S. senator for Georgia, died March 23, 2018, at age 86. His birthday would have been February […]
February 25, 2021 • Commentary
Tracking Truants and Absentees in Georgia Schools
Who is a truant during COVID-19? The pivot to remote schooling further complicates decades of battling chronic absenteeism.
February 19, 2021
Friday Facts: February 19, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Expanding school choice has been front and center for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation since its inception, as this article from 1992 demonstrates. The Foundation, which […]
February 12, 2021
Friday Facts: February 12, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Rogers Wade (right), then-president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, chats with U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona after McCain’s keynote address at the Foundation’s 15th […]
February 12, 2021 • Commentary
Chalking Up Successes in Georgia School Choice
On the home front overall, the news about education options is encouraging. Georgia’s public charter schools’ enrollment increased during the COVID-19 pandemic
February 5, 2021
Friday Facts: February 5, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Reforming Georgia’s certificate-of-need (CON) laws, which protect medical monopolies, has been a priority since the early days of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, as shown in […]
February 5, 2021 • Blog
Unhealthy Blockage Constricts Certificate-of-Need Relief
On March 20, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order relaxing many restrictions on healthcare providers. I
January 29, 2021
Friday Facts: January 29, 2021
It’s Friday! Today’s Friday Facts has an education focus, to mark the 11th annual celebration of National School Choice Week, which kicked off January 24. Memory Lane: Education options for […]
January 28, 2021 • Commentary
Where Have All the Children Gone?
Nearly 36,000 fewer students attended Georgia public schools this year. It's unclear where they are instead.
January 22, 2021
Friday Facts: January 22, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: The debate about education funding is not new, as demonstrated in this clipping from a 1992 editorial in The Augusta Chronicle. As the Foundation celebrates its […]
January 20, 2021 • Blog
How Should the Gold Dome Spend Your Money?
What to do with your money is the topic this week at the Gold Dome. There is even more reason than usual to pay attention. State officials expect to have […]
January 15, 2021
Friday Facts: January 15, 2021
It’s Friday! As the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2021, each Friday Facts will include a little trip down Memory Lane from our three decades of […]
January 11, 2021 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: January 11, 2021
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. Mutating virus: The first case of the U.K. coronavirus variant has been reported in Georgia, an […]
January 8, 2021
Friday Facts: January 08, 2021
It’s Friday! Happy New Year! Welcome to the first issue of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Friday Facts for 2021. This is a special year for the Foundation: We’re celebrating […]
December 28, 2020 • Blog
New Year’s Resolutions and Priorities for Georgia
Has there ever been a year that better informed what the next year’s work ought to be? Perhaps, but the to-do list for Georgia in 2021 clearly takes its cues […]
December 22, 2020 • Blog
12 Good Tidings from the Georgia Public Policy Foundation!
Count down to Christmas 2020, Georgia Public Policy Foundation style! 12 Months of Insightful Commentary We’re committed to bringing you the best, most thought-provoking commentary on the issues affecting Georgians. […]
December 18, 2020
Friday Facts: December 18, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, […]
December 18, 2020 • Commentary
New Year, New Initiative: Policy, Transparency and News
It’s been a rough year for news organizations. Even before COVID-19 struck, newspaper circulation, readership and pages were shrinking, outmaneuvered by shrinking ad revenue and a 24-hour news cycle: online […]
December 16, 2020 • Blog
A Big Dose of Optimism for Christmas
I don’t know what you’ve asked of Santa Claus for Christmas, but one thing ought to be on everyone’s wish list: a big dose of optimism. After the year we’ve […]
December 14, 2020 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: December 14, 2020
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. COVID-19 vaccine arrives: Frontline healthcare workers in New York became the first to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 […]
December 11, 2020
Friday Facts: December 11, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never […]
December 7, 2020 • Friday Facts
Checking Up On Health: December 7, 2020
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. The holiday season is upon us. It’s true that “Seasonal Affective Disorder” – appropriately, SAD – […]
December 4, 2020
Friday Facts: December 4 2020
It’s Friday! Thanks to the generosity of supporters, the Foundation’s Giving Tuesday campaign raised more than $10,000 this week! Your contributions are “Changing Georgia Policy, Changing Georgians’ Lives!” Quotes of […]
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