July 13, 2011
Originally published February 17, 2011 Georgia will consider alternatives to incarceration of adult non-violent offenders in a sweeping criminal justice review announced Wednesday afternoon by Governor Nathan Deal. Reforms could […]
June 14, 2011
Georgia is ready to put unemployed probationers to work picking and packing crops. This week Governor Nathan Deal announced state agriculture, corrections and labor officials will combine efforts to identify […]
June 8, 2011
Georgia likes to describe itself as an economic growth engine. Real gross domestic product growth data released this week by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis confirmed progress but there […]
April 1, 2011
It’s Friday! Quotations – Today is April Fool’s Day. Or, As Will Rogers put it, “The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.” Taxes and spending – Sunday […]
December 10, 2010
By Benita M. Dodd The first thing to know about Georgia’s water worries is that just as Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem but a spending problem, Georgia doesn’t have […]
September 3, 2010
By Tom Greene As we close in on November, Georgia’s voters are firming up opinions about which Gubernatorial candidate should lead us into the 21st Century. No doubt […]
April 20, 2010
By Mike Klein Each day across Georgia, the state Department of Corrections prepares enough meals to feed the population of the city of Marietta. Breakfast and lunch are served […]
March 5, 2010
By Benita M. Dodd Which is the environmentally sound approach, policy-makers seeing job creation as the key to economic recovery or environmental groups pushing for stringent prohibitions on interbasin transfers […]
January 22, 2010
By Mike Klein Economies require technology just as mammals require oxygen. In effect, technology is the oxygen from which economic progress is derived. If you wonder about that idea, consider […]
November 21, 2008
By Benita M. Dodd “If you build it, they will come,” was the mantra for opponents of road-building in metro Atlanta, the economic engine of Georgia. So we didn’t build […]
June 22, 2007
By Benita M. Dodd Don’t like the drought-related watering restrictions in your community? Outraged enough to rat out neighbors who violate watering rules? The state’s water “wars” could get worse: […]
March 24, 2006
By Benita M. Dodd Hindsight being 20-20, traffic jams became the impetus for transportation solutions as Georgia’s population grew. Fortunately, the state can still pre-empt an energy jam fueled by Georgia’s growing population […]
March 3, 2006
By Benita M. Dodd Hindsight being 20/20, the critics who back in 1997 were doomsaying the deregulation of Georgia’s natural gas market are back again, gleefully pointing to high energy […]
March 4, 2005
By Harold Brown It is impossible to use up water. When it is used, it doesn’t disappear. There is as much water on this planet today as there was thousands […]
April 11, 2003
By Morgan Smith I. Summary It has been four years since Georgia legislators enacted broad changes to the state laws that regulate the relationship between auto dealers and car manufacturers. The changes have created significant benefits […]
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