March 21, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 21, 2025
Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed legal reforms target a growing but little-known issue: third-party litigation funding.
Topic: Atlanta BeltLine
November 22, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 22, 2024
Tech services expand access to higher education and should not be regulated out of business by the federal government.
March 10, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: March 10, 2023
It’s Friday! The Georgia legislature has advanced two issues that lawmakers have been debating under the Gold Dome for years. In some cases, decades. Senate Bill 99, sponsored by Sen. […]
February 17, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: February 17, 2023
It’s Friday! Some bad ideas just won’t go away. MARTA released details last fall on a plan to extend its streetcar 2.5 miles to Atlanta’s Beltline. Previously, the Georgia Public […]
February 16, 2023 • Commentary
Atlanta streetcar: Grand plans and failed ambitions
Atlanta's streetcar has proven to be both more expensive than expected, while serving less people than predicted.
September 14, 2018
Transit’s New Technologies Leaving Planners Behind
By Eric J. Tanenblatt When it comes to transportation in Atlanta, there are two things on which everyone can agree: Our cash-strapped transit grid is bad, and our traffic is worse. […]
April 3, 2017
AJC Publishes Op-Ed on Atlanta, MARTA TSPLOSTs
Foundation op-ed proposes Atlanta transit reprioritization. The Sunday edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on April 2, 2017, published an op-ed by Foundation Vice President Benita Dodd on the new transportation […]
June 8, 2016
AJC Article Quotes Foundation on Ride-sharing Services
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of June 6, 2016, included an article by Pete Corson on ride-sharing services’ role in transit and quoted Kelly McCutchen. The article is printed in its entirety below and […]
June 3, 2016
Urban Farms: Unlikely Oases in Food Deserts
There’s a reason people left farms to live in the city, and it wasn’t to farm. By Harold Brown “Food desert” is the modern urban description of a supposed area […]
May 24, 2016
Transit Planning 201 for Atlanta: Please Don’t Let Us Blow It
By Mike Dobbins The pace quickens for putting out some information for citizens to consider as they decide how to vote on the transit referendum. Yet major issues remain about […]
May 19, 2015
Atlanta Journal-Constitution publishes Foundation’s, ‘A Streetcar named denial’
Verdict on the Streetcar: “uninspiring, uncomfortable and unlikely to succeed.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published an op-ed on May 19, 2015, about the Atlanta Streetcar by Foundation Vice President Benita Dodd, “A streetcar named denial.” […]
April 15, 2014
Atlanta Business Chronicle Quotes Foundation on Streetcar
The Atlanta Business Chronicle of April 13 quoted Foundation Vice President Benita Dodd in an “Atlanta awaits new streetcar,” an article on the Atlanta Streetcar. By H.M. Cauley At age […]
April 29, 2011
Six Ways to Sunday Drives in Georgia Transportation
By Benita M. Dodd Transportation policy may not have been the priority during the legislative session, but in the long shadow of the Gold Dome, proposals, plans, ideas and reports […]
July 1, 2005
Without Local Curbs, Eminent Domain Abuse Is Imminent
By Benita M. Dodd There was a time the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that government could take private property when it was “important to appropriate lands or other property for […]