January 30, 2009
Property Tax Relief for Whom?
By Charlie Bethel Among the taxes Georgians pay, the property tax rises to the top of “most hated.” It is not the tax that takes the most money from Georgians, […]
Topic: Atlanta
November 21, 2008
Road to Congestion Relief Leads … Somewhere Else
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 […]
May 2, 2008
Don’t Railroad Taxpayers into Transit Subsidies
By James H. Orr Jr. Will massive, endless subsidies become a way of life for Georgians? Apparently so, if our policy-makers listen to the proponents of commuter rail line and […]
February 15, 2008
Express Toll Network Can Drive Congestion Relief
By Benita M. Dodd How and how much are far from concurrence, but Georgians agree that what transportation needs most is funding. Sifting through the myriad transportation proposals, however, reveals […]
January 18, 2008
Transportation: ‘Think like the People Coming up Behind Us Might’
By Vance Smith (Excerpted from remarks by Georgia Rep. Vance Smith (R-Pine Mountain), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, at a Georgia Public Policy Foundation Policy Briefing Luncheon on transportation.) […]
November 9, 2007
Priorities should drive transportation policy
By Ron Sifen The metropolitan planning organization for the 10-county metro Atlanta region, the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), recently adopted a $67 billion package of transportation projects over the next 25 years. But […]
November 2, 2007
Wising Up to Georgia’s Water Woes
By Benita M. Dodd and Harold Brown “It is remarkable how many political ‘solutions’ today are dealing with problems created by previous political ‘solutions’,” conservative commentator Thomas Sowell wrote recently […]
October 19, 2007
Commentary: Slow-Growth Plans and Regulations Lose the Way for San Jose
By Randal O’Toole California is a garden of Eden, A paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot If you ain’t […]
August 17, 2007
A Prescription for Grady
By Bill Loughrey Grady Memorial Hospital is a vital community asset used by residents throughout metropolitan Atlanta, a safety-net hospital for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Georgians that admits tens […]
August 10, 2007
Transportation Solutions For a Transit-Challenged Region
Atlanta grew up around cars. It’s fundamentally a packet-switched infrastructure. Ask any telecom engineer. You cannot replace a packet-switched infrastructure with circuit switching for any reasonable amount of money. Can’t […]
August 3, 2007
In Transportation and in Technology, Packets Beat Circuits
Why are so many mass transit policies doomed to failure? Because packets beat circuits. By Stephen Fleming (Part 1 of a two-part commentary) Why are so many mass transit policies […]
July 27, 2007
Perspective on Transportation Innovations: Concessions, and Then Some
By Benita M. Dodd Any elected official who proposes raising gas taxes or fees to fund transportation infrastructure needs in Georgia is probably not planning on re-election. Yet every policy-maker […]
July 20, 2007
Commentary: Competition Can Solve Atlanta’s Budget Crunch
By Leonard C. Gilroy Our culture makes the simplest problems complex and the simplest solutions expensive. None seem simpler than the cause of obesity and its cure, but nutritionists, psychologists, […]
June 22, 2007
Water: Balloons, Guns, Slides in Policy
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: […]
January 12, 2007
Scary Truth Amid Government Accountability
By Benita M. Dodd and Geoffrey Segal If ever there was a moment of unvarnished political pass-the-buck, it came during Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s annual State of the City address […]
November 10, 2006
No Time to Detour from Viable Transportation Solutions
By Benita M. Dodd Traffic congestion in metro Atlanta, where half the vehicle miles traveled in Georgia are concentrated, is frequently blamed on land use patterns in a region derided […]
August 25, 2006
Bumps in Study on Speed Humps
By Randal O’Toole and Kathleen Calongne A recent paper purporting to show that speed humps make residential streets safer for children actually shows nothing of the kind. In fact, the […]
August 18, 2006
Commentary: The Truth about Transit-Oriented Development
By Kathleen Calongne Across the nation and in Atlanta, policy-makers are preparing to spend billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money building rail transit. The problem they face now is how […]
August 11, 2006
Telemedicine Teleports Rural Residents to National Forefront
By Benita M. Dodd Remember when people moved to the countryside for health reasons? Choosing to live in small-town Georgia has its health advantages, but health care hasn’t been one of them. […]
July 28, 2006
Presumptions on Water Quality can Pollute Minds
By Harold Brown Projections of metro Atlanta’s deteriorating water quality are many and presumptive, usually with warnings of looming problems exploited as leverage for some cause or project. According to […]
July 21, 2006
Reservations About Suing Online Hotel Brokers
By Jeff Edgens Name an issue: From eminent domain to fast food, tobacco to Internet taxes, you can find an alliance of politicians and trial lawyers whose ultimate goal is […]
April 20, 2006
Private Sector Role doesn’t mean Streets Paved with ‘Sold’
Benita M. Dodd Georgia faces a $7.7 billion transportation funding shortfall over the next six years, the state Department of Transportation reminds us on its new Web site, www.whatsthebigidea.us. Bridging that […]
March 30, 2006
Solving the Woes of Water Infrastructure
By Benita M. Dodd One week after more than 600 people from around the nation participated in an Atlanta conference on how to fund sustainable water infrastructure, the federal Environmental […]
March 2, 2006
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Georgia Moves on Transportation
By Benita M. Dodd Transportation proposals are chasing lawmakers at such an exciting and breathtaking pace this year that the convergence of plans under the Gold Dome seems destined to […]
February 17, 2006
Telework: Transporting Workers into a Global Economy
Just a dozen years ago it was considered avant garde for an organization to allow employees to work from home. Today, increasing numbers of employees are quietly migrating away from […]
December 9, 2005
Road to Congestion Relief Paved with Common Sense
By Benita M. Dodd When the Georgia Public Policy Foundation presented testimony to the State Board of Transportation’s Intermodal Committee in September opposing the proposed Atlanta-Lovejoy commuter rail line, the […]
November 18, 2005
Progress of Stormwater Utilities a Watershed Event
By Brant D. Keller, Ph. D. Across the nation and in Georgia, progress in the creation of stormwater utilities has been remarkable and encouraging. It was as recent as 1998 […]
August 26, 2005
New City Promises New Hope for Limiting Government
By Geoffrey F. Segal Watch closely as Georgia plays host to a fascinating experiment in public administration. Sandy Springs, an unincorporated suburb of Atlanta in northeast Fulton County, holds enormous […]
June 24, 2005
Georgia Tackles the Toll of Truck Traffic
By Benita M. Dodd Georgians, particularly those in and around transportation corridors of metro areas, deal on an almost-daily basis with congestion stemming from truck-related traffic incidents. The bigger the […]
May 13, 2005
Governing By Network Has Challenges, Rewards
By Benita M. Dodd For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost, goes the rhyme. To Stephen Goldsmith, Harvard professor and former two-term mayor of Indianapolis, sometimes it’s for […]
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