Topic: DeKalb County


May 27, 2011

USDA’s Feeding Frenzy

By Harold Brown How does the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) budget grow in proportion to the shrinkage of its mission? Perhaps it is a reward for agriculture’s phenomenal success. […]

August 27, 2010

Friday Facts: August 27th, 2010

It’s Friday!     Quotable – “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” — Ronald Reagan  […]

February 22, 2010

Land Protection Through Private Alternatives

Jefferson G. Edgens Governor Barnes should be commended for his proposal to protect 20 percent of open space. Not only is this a good idea, but it stresses two important […]

March 27, 2009

Georgia ‘HOT’ on the Trail of Congestion Relief

By Benita M. Dodd The standoff among the House, the Senate and the Governor’s office over competing transportation proposals continues under Georgia’s Gold Dome, but the Department of Transportation isn’t […]


June 20, 2008

The Needless Burden of Local Assistance Grants

By Kevin Schmidt When Governor Sonny Perdue signed Georgia’s $21.1 billion budget for fiscal 2009, it contained $6 million for Local Assistance Grants (LAG), funds appropriated and allocated to a […]

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 4, 2007

Land Use Principles for Georgia

The Lone Mountain Compact’s “Principles for Livable Cities,” to which the Georgia Public Policy Foundation is a signatory, form the basis of land use principles: Absent a material threat to […]

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 […]



April 19, 2005

New Charters on Board for this Fall

Published Tuesday, April 19, 2005 By Angie Green The Foundation would like to congratulate the following charter schools recently approved to open this fall. Berrien Academy Charter School in Berrien County […]



March 15, 2000

Sales Taxes and the E-Commerce Revolution

Hans A. von Spakovsky Elected officials in Georgia and throughout the country have been expressing their concern over the possible loss of state sales tax revenues as e-commerce grows on […]
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