August 24, 2012
Friday Facts: August 24, 2012
August 24, 2012 It’s Friday! Quotes of Note Correction: Two of the Quotes of Note in last week’s Friday Facts were incorrectly attributed to Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. Our […]
Topic: Bill Clinton
April 4, 2012
Tax Freedom Day — The Feeling of Not So Much Freedom
By Mike Klein There is this idea out there that the country has a tax code. Actually, it has a tax obstacle course. It is almost impossible to decipher the […]
March 23, 2012
It’s Not Too Late for Georgia Health Reform
By Ronald E. Bachman The Georgia Legislature is about to complete its 2011-2012 session, and lawmakers have been struggling over improving educational choices, reforming the criminal justice system and lowering […]
February 8, 2012
HR 1162: Entrenched Thinking Won Out Over Enlightenment
Two weeks ago hope and change seemed possible. Two thousand students, parents and start-up charter school supporters gathered on a sunny winter morning outside the State Capitol to rally on […]
June 24, 2011
Friday Facts: June 24th, 2011
It’s Friday! Education – The largest portion of special education spending goes to special education teachers, who are trained in the law, know how to identify disabilities, and are steeped […]
June 21, 2011
After Supreme Court Ruling: “How We Answer Will Define Us For Generations”
Georgia became the national battleground over charter public schools alternative authorization last month when the state Supreme Court ruled the three-year-old charter schools commission is unconstitutional. So it was not […]
June 21, 2011
Clinton at Charters Conference; Deal Meets With Gates Foundation
Good morning from the 2011 National Charter Schools Conference at the World Congress Center in Atlanta. Former President Bill Clinton will deliver the morning keynote address to some 4,000 conference […]
June 21, 2011
Bill Clinton Tells Charter Educators: Put America Back in the Future Business
Former President Bill Clinton challenged charter school educators to “put our country back in the future business” during his keynote address Tuesday morning that opened the 2011 National Charter Schools […]
June 13, 2011
Supreme Court Will Not Reconsider State Commission Schools Decision
The Georgia Supreme Court has served the future of former state commission charter schools back over the net and back into the Legislature’s court. This morning the Court announced that […]
December 3, 2010
Friday Facts: December 3rd, 2010
It’s Friday! – Today is the deadline to register for, “ABCs+D = The Virtual Success of Digital Learning,“ a Georgia Public Policy Foundation Policy Briefing Luncheon at noon on Tuesday, […]
July 23, 2010
It’s Time to Listen to Health Care Consumers
By Ronald E. Bachman The great frustration for many Americans during the debate on ObamaCare was tone-deaf politicians. No one seemed willing to listen to their concerns. Federal […]
June 4, 2010
A Case Study in How Consumerism Loses in European-Style Health Care
By Ronald E. Bachman At the invitation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a dozen American policy wonks from differing perspectives traveled to Germany in December 2009. The Foundation […]
April 23, 2010
Health Care: From ‘No Way’ to ‘Now What?’
By Ronald E. Bachman In polls and elections, a majority of Americans said “No!” to federal health care legislation, but it passed anyway. Most still want it repealed, but the […]
February 5, 2010
Shifting the Health Care Debate from Irate to Ideas
By Ronald E. Bachman Americans are clearly angry about the policies and politics of Washington, D.C., and the Tea Party movement has led the way, uniting the silent majority and […]
December 4, 2009
Redistributing Wealth Through Health ‘Reform’
By Ronald Bachman It turns out that “Joe the Plumber” gave us the real insight to the ultimate goals of the Obama presidency and the current Congress: redistribution of wealth. […]
October 2, 2009
Do the Math on Health Care Reform
By Ronald E. Bachman How will health care reform affect you? It may be confusing and complicated but it does not take a degree in mathematics. At an early age […]
September 11, 2009
The Mother of All Slush Funds
By Ronald E. Bachman Now that Congress is back in session and President Obama has spoken, Washington’s focus on the various health plans will intensify. But health legislation passing […]
August 14, 2009
Hellish Health Reform
By Ronald E. Bachman The loudest voices clamoring for health “reform” in Washington are seldom considering health or health care first. The furor is about power: Controlling $2.5 trillion gives […]
August 7, 2009
Why a Partisan Health Plan will Never Work
By Brad Alexander President Obama appears to believe a new national health care system can be created by winning the support of every Democrat in Congress and enough Republicans to […]
October 3, 2003
Activists Peddle Bikes and Buses, not Cars, to Working Poor
By Wendell Cox and Ronald D. Utt As much as 20 percent of federal transportation funding goes to transit, which serves less than 2 percent of travelers. Of the many […]
January 24, 2003
The Atlanta Water Privatization: What Can We Learn?
Your contract is only as strong as the monitoring, reporting, and direct oversight that is built into it. By Geoffrey F. Segal I. Context In 1997, the City of Atlanta privatized […]
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