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December 22, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: December 23, 2022

It’s Friday! Friday’s Freshest: Santa Claus is comin’ to town this week. Legislators don’t arrive until next month. When they do arrive at the Capitol, there will be lots of […]

November 29, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: November 25, 2022

It’s Friday! Friday’s Freshest: Georgians are faced with serious problems that affect their daily lives, their futures and their children’s futures. Some of them are urgent and require attention and […]

October 21, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 21, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” –Arthur Schopenhauer “When the whole world is […]

August 5, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: August 5, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.” -Bill Russell 1934-2022 “Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a […]

July 29, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: July 29, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The thing I remember best about successful people I’ve met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they’re doing… and it seems […]

June 24, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: June 24, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” –Albert Einstein “The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues […]

May 6, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: May 6, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs […]

April 8, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: April 08, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note“Personal independence is a virtue…but there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed, it must be developed […]

March 25, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 25, 2022

While time is ticking on filing your 2021 taxes, the conversation at the Gold Dome has been all about what the 2024 tax year will look like in Georgia.

March 18, 2022 • Foundation News

Friday Facts: March 18, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges or […]

March 11, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: March 11, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” -Jean-Paul Sartre “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” -Jonathan Swift “It is easier […]

February 25, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: February 25, 2022

In his weekly column, Kyle Wingfield debunks some popular claims by school choice opponents about private school.

January 28, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: January 28, 2022

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Charles de Montesquieu “How strangely will the […]

January 21, 2022 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: January 21, 2022

By Friday Facts: January 21, 2022

We’re hiring! Are you a journalist with a love of investigation and the desire to use your skills to lead meaningful change? We’re hiring an investigative journ

October 22, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: October 22, 2021

By Friday Facts: October 22, 2021

Since its earliest days, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has stood for limited government, personal responsibility and individual initiative.

September 24, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: September 24, 2021

Thirty years of Policy Over Politics: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrated its 30th anniversary on September 16 at the Georgia Aquarium with nearly 2

June 25, 2021 • Friday Facts

Friday Facts: June 25, 2021

It’s Friday! Quote of Note Obamacare’s supporters talked a lot about illnesses contributing to more than half of all bankruptcies, which implied there should have been a sharp decrease in […]

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 […]

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 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 17, 2020

Friday Facts: January 17, 2020

It’s Friday! January 28: The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 29th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award Dinner is almost here! The deadline to purchase tickets is Wednesday, January 22. Join the […]

June 28, 2019

Friday Facts: June 28, 2019

It’s Friday! Events November 15: Early Bird registration is open for the 2019 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, which takes place Friday, November 15, at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly. The theme […]

March 29, 2019

Friday Facts: March 29, 2019

It’s Friday! Events April 10: “Education Choice: A Case Study in Policy and Politics,” a Foundation Happy Hour Policy Discussion in Athens at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in […]

February 15, 2019

Friday Facts: February 15, 2019

It’s Friday! Events March 21: “Shining a Light on Government,” a Leadership Breakfast with Richard Belcher of WSB-TV in celebration of Sunshine Week on Thursday, March 21, at the Georgian […]

February 8, 2019

Friday Facts: February 8, 2019

It’s Friday! Honors For the second consecutive year, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has been named one of the world’s “Best Independent Think Tanks” by the University of Pennsylvania’s Think […]

January 18, 2019

Friday Facts: January 18, 2019

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true […]

December 21, 2018

Friday Facts: December 21, 2018

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those […]

December 7, 2018

Friday Facts: December 7, 2018

Events January 22, 2019: “National School Choice Week: A Capitol Choice,” is a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon on Tuesday, January 22, in the Empire Room, 20th floor, Sloppy Floyd Building […]

November 16, 2018

Friday Facts: November 16, 2018

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “No Wall of words, no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one […]

September 28, 2018

Friday Facts: September 28, 2018

It’s Friday! Subscribe to the Friday Facts here. Support the Foundation and its mission here. Quotes of note “The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, […]

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