January 7, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 07, 2022
Yesterday, friends and family of the great Johnny Isakson gathered to memorialize the late Republican senator. Read Georgia Policy’s fond memories of our friend
Topic: Atlanta
December 31, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 31, 2021
In celebration of the Foundation's 30th anniversary in 2021, the Friday Facts included "a trip down Memory Lane," with photographs, news clips and articles thro
December 17, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 17, 2021
Limited government and fiscal responsibility have been mainstays of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation since its founding in 1991.
December 10, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 10, 2021
Kyle Wingfield is recuperating from surgery and will be back in the office in the new year.
December 3, 2021
Friday Facts: December 03, 2021
In the early days of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, even public charter school choice was needlessly limited in Georgia, as this 1996 article demonstrate
November 15, 2021 • Press Release
Study on Mileage-Based User Fees for Georgia Debuts at State Capitol
Transportation Expert to Testify on Mileage-Based User Fees for Georgia
November 12, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 12, 2021
In 2010, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation held its first legislative policy forum.
November 11, 2021 • Foundation News
Stepping away for a while…
I still remember the voicemail, four years later: I have some bad news. You need surgery.
November 5, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: November 05, 2021
Noel Khalil, founder and CEO of Columbia Residential and Columbia Ventures, died October 25 after a long illness.
November 4, 2021 • Blog
Short-Term Rental Regulation: Public Protection or Party Poopers?
Short-term rentals are exploding in popularity, and increasingly on the radar of regulators.
October 29, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: October 29, 2021
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation modeled its annual Georgia Legislative Policy Forum on the policy briefings of our sister think tank, the Texas Public Poli
October 22, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: October 22, 2021
Since its earliest days, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has stood for limited government, personal responsibility and individual initiative.
October 15, 2021 • Foundation News
2021 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum, Rx for What Ails the State
The past year has been a public policy whirlwind, with COVID-19 affecting where we work and how our children get an education, a winter deep freeze in the Deep
October 14, 2021 • Blog
Georgia is Changing, for Better or for Worse?
Butch Miller got in trouble this past week for saying what a lot of Georgians believe.
October 1, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: October 1, 2021
In 2006, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation published a transportation study: “Reducing Congestion in Atlanta: A Bold New Approach to Increasing Mobility.”
September 27, 2021 • Foundation News
Kyle Wingfield’s Remarks at Georgia Policy’s 30th Anniversary Celebration
What follows is an excerpt from President Kyle Wingfield's remarks at the opening of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation's 30th Anniversary Dinner on September
September 10, 2021 • Commentary
Universal Recognition, A License to Work
The phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” is a favorite of those with environmental concerns about the amount of trash generated by people and businesses.
September 3, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 03, 2021
In less than two weeks, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary with a September 16 event at the Georgia Aquarium.
August 25, 2021 • Foundation News
Major Problems with Georgia Milestones
I’m talking about the Georgia Milestones exams given last spring, the state’s year-end standardized tests. Georgia students – or at least the ones who took the
August 18, 2021 • Foundation News
Private School – More Affordable Than You Think?
A perennial argument against programs to expand educational options is that students wouldn’t receive enough to pay for private-school tuition.
August 13, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 13, 2021
Soon after it was established in 1991, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation created the W.A.S.T.E. Award, an ignominious recognition of the Tax Day deadline tha
August 6, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: August 06, 2021
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s first luncheon briefing was in October 1993, two years after the Foundation was established.
July 30, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 30, 2021
The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s most popular publication, the Friday Facts, has evolved over the decades from a one-page facsimile sent to the Foundation
July 28, 2021 • Foundation News
Pursuing Public School Budgets
Credit where credit is due: Some school leaders aren’t complaining about the small amount of state money cut from their budgets, but are instead moving forward
July 23, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 23, 2021
Sometimes, the wheels of change turn exceedingly slow. As early as 1992 (right) – one year after the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was founded – and as recen
July 16, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 16, 2021
Housing affordability was one of the earliest policy challenges that drew the attention of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, as this 1992 commentary demonst
July 9, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: July 09, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane Experienced guide: Since 1996, the nonpartisan Georgia Public Policy Foundation has published a legislative agenda – a guide to the state’s policy challenges, with solutions aimed […]
July 9, 2021 • Commentary
New Express Lanes to Ease Taxpayer Toll
Atlanta Braves’ fans still chuckle about Pascual Perez, who missed his start for the Braves after getting lost on Interstate 285. It was August 1982, and the 25-year-old drove around the 64-mile beltway […]
July 8, 2021 • Blog
Have Tolls, Will Travel
When it comes to transportation policy in Georgia, good – or at least, better – things often come to those who wait. A decade ago, regional T-SPLOST referendums were pitched […]
July 2, 2021
Friday Facts: July 02, 2021
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and […]
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