December 15, 2023 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 15, 2023
When it comes to analyzing the available data on student outcomes for college and career academies, we found two main obstacles. What are they?
Topic: Chattanooga
September 26, 2023 • Blog
Why Calhoun residents are fighting the city over tiny homes
The tiny house movement is growing rapidly in America. But a proposal in Calhoun, Georgia was rejected because of city regulations.
March 20, 2023
Economic Report on Georgia’s Certificate of Need Program
Despite their inception nearly fifty years ago, ongoing questions about cost, access and the role of community healthcare remain.
March 14, 2023 • Blog
Rural Georgia’s rising population numbers could create unexpected tensions
Seven counties in Georgia have only one commissioner rather than a board.
January 24, 2023 • Blog
Georgia’s expensive rural broadband project
Feds insist government-funded broadband will transform Georgia’s rural and poor communities.
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 […]
April 22, 2022 • Commentary
A Tennessee Hospital May Keep a Georgia Competitor From Opening, Thanks to This Law
Why would a health system in Tennessee have any legal standing to stop the building of a hospital in Georgia? The answer is Georgia's Certificate of Need.
November 13, 2017
Foundation Mourns Passing of Dr. Michael H. Mescon, 2016 Freedom Award Recipient
Atlanta — Dr. Michael “Mike” H. Mescon, 2016 recipient of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Freedom Award, “father of economic education in Georgia,” and the man The Wall Street Journal once […]
June 2, 2017
Friday Facts: June 2, 2017
It’s Friday! Events There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is a free doughnut today! Today’s National Donut Day, the food holiday featuring free doughnuts at shops […]
December 16, 2016
Foundation Celebrates 25 Years, Honors Dr. Michael H. Mescon
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 16, 2016 Contact Benita Dodd at 404-256-4050 or Foundation Celebrates 25 Years, Honors Dr. Michael H. Mescon Atlanta – The […]
October 23, 2015
Municipal Broadband Puts Taxpayers’ Wallets at Risk
For centuries, too-good-to-be-true deals have snagged investors with promises that they can ignore past failures because “this time it will be different.” Peachtree City’s leaders appear to have been told […]
October 16, 2015
City-Run Broadband Internet Is a Disaster in the Making
The mistakes of municipal broadband. By Kevin Glass Government Internet is coming to a city near you. The only question is if anything can be done to stop the politicians […]
July 24, 2015
Friday Facts: July 24, 2015
It’s Friday! Monday is the deadline! Register now for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s annual Friedman Legacy for Freedom Day event at Vic’s on the River in Savannah. The Policy […]
April 20, 2012
Lack of Venture Capital Means Lost Jobs, Lost Opportunity
By Mike Klein When Advanced Catheter Therapies announced a new technology patent in January, the dateline was Chattanooga, Tenn. The press release noted, “The Company recently announced a name change […]
February 6, 2012
More Robust Rail Strategy Anticipated in State Freight Plan
Georgia has many transportation challenges but with an eye on simplicity, you can group them into about two categories: moving people through congested urban areas and moving freight everywhere. The […]
August 5, 2011
Airport Privatization Could Take Off
By Benita M. Dodd For years, Georgia has been trying to site an airport to supplement Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest passenger airport in the world. Suggestions have been […]
April 27, 2010
Freight Logistics Moving in the Right Direction in Georgia
By Mike Klein Think about this image. You are traveling down one of Georgia’s splendid highways and suddenly a train carrying coal hurtles past in a near blur. […]
January 8, 2010
Transportation Planning: A Long Road Ahead
By Benita M. Dodd The Georgia Department of Transportation’s Draft Statewide Strategic Plan released this month reflects the state’s transportation approach for the next 20 years and, it’s promising that […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 17, 2004
“Traffic, Trolleys and Density: A Commonsense Approach”
By Steve Stancil (Excerpts from the transcript of the Sept. 14 speech by Steve Stancil, executive director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation Policy Briefing […]