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 […]
Topic: Donald Trump
June 2, 2017
An Unhealthy Obsession with Climate Change
By Harold Brown On June 1 came the encouraging news that President Trump has decided the United States will exit the U.N. Paris climate agreement. The agreement imposes huge burdens […]
May 19, 2017
Stop Making a Federal Case for Transportation Funding
Shift transportation funding responsibility to the states. By Robert Krol President Trump and Congress seem poised to boost spending on highways, bridges, and mass transit. Yet if this increase in […]
April 28, 2017
Friday Facts: April 28, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees. … We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted […]
April 21, 2017
Friday Facts: April 21, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note Tax Day: “Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always […]
April 7, 2017
Friday Facts: April 7, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away. … Every vote given for Protection is a vote to […]
April 6, 2017
The Relationship Between Health Care Reform and the Supreme Court Confirmation
Be careful when you set a new precedent, because your decision could come back to haunt you. By Kelly McCutchen Be careful when you set a new precedent, because your […]
April 3, 2017
AJC Publishes Op-Ed on Atlanta, MARTA TSPLOSTs
Foundation op-ed proposes Atlanta transit reprioritization. The Sunday edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on April 2, 2017, published an op-ed by Foundation Vice President Benita Dodd on the new transportation […]
March 31, 2017
Friday Facts: March 31, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “Problems arise when political decision-makers attempt to distort what scientific studies conclude, but also when scientists and others attempt to exert influence on policy decisions […]
March 24, 2017
Friday Facts: March 24, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” – Voltaire “A good judge doesn’t give a whit about politics or the political […]
March 17, 2017
Friday Facts: March 17, 2017
It’s Friday! Events March 23: The deadline is Tuesday to sign up for the Foundation’s March Leadership Breakfast, “Capitol Insight,” with keynote speaker Lynn Westmoreland, who retired recently after six […]
March 10, 2017
Friday Facts: March 10, 2017
It’s Friday! Condolences Dudley Rochelle Carter, who served as a board member for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, passed away on March 4 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s syndrome. […]
March 3, 2017
Friday Facts: March 3, 2017
It’s Friday! Have you visited our social media sites lately? The Foundation has 3,185 Facebook “likes!” Our Twitter account has 1,719 followers at twitter.com/gppf. Follow us on Instagram, too! Events […]
February 24, 2017
Global Warming: Playing Fast and Loose in Policy, Proof and Politics
Doomsday prophets have always fixated on the goal more than the cause. By Harold Brown Global warming (climate change) is not just a scientific subject but also a technical-social-political scramble. […]
February 17, 2017
Friday Facts: February 17, 2017
It’s Friday! Events February 22: Register by MONDAY to join the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and the Institute for Justice for, “Bottleneckers,” Wednesday’s Leadership Breakfast and Book Forum with Dick […]
February 10, 2017
Friday Facts: February 10, 2017
It’s Friday! Events Happy birthday, Georgia! Georgia Day is February 12. Today and Saturday are rare opportunities to visit the Georgia Archives in Morrow to view Georgia’s copy of the […]
February 10, 2017
The State of the Graduation Rate, and the States of the States
If Trump keeps his promise to devolve education, all eyes move to the states. By Jenn Hatfield When President Donald Trump was sworn into office on January 20, the clock […]
January 27, 2017
Friday Facts: January 27, 2017
It’s Friday! Events This week is National School Choice Week, and the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast on Thursday was among a record-breaking 21,392 taking place across all 50 […]
January 20, 2017
Friday Facts: January 20, 2017
It’s Friday! Events January 26: January 24 is the deadline to register for the National School Choice Week Leadership Breakfast keynoted by education expert Dr. Ben Scafidi. He will unveil […]
January 20, 2017
Cures Act Creates New Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangement
The Cures Act overturns a previous ruling by the IRS and DOL that precluded employers from using a defined contribution “HRA only” approach to subsidize their employees’ purchase of individual […]
January 13, 2017
Friday Facts: January 13, 2017
It’s Friday! Events January 26: The National School Choice Week Leadership Breakfast is keynoted by education expert Dr. Ben Scafidi, who will unveil his study on the real numbers of […]
January 10, 2017
AJC Poll Finds Most Georgia Voters Support Education Choice
Just two weeks before another record-breaking National School Choice Week takes place (January 22-28), Ty Tagami reported on January 10, 2017, on a new poll by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that […]
December 30, 2016
Friday Facts: December 30, 2016
It’s Friday! It’s been a great 2016 and a game-changing 25 years for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Thank you for your moral and financial support, your input and your […]
December 23, 2016
Friday Facts: December 23, 2016
It’s Friday! In memoriam: Our condolences to the friends, family and colleagues of Ed Noble, an Atlanta giant who passed away on Dec. 4 at age 88. A visionary who […]
December 16, 2016
Friday Facts: December 16, 2016
It’s Friday! Events Did you attend our 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award on November 11? Click here to view photographs from the event! January 26, 2017: Typically the […]
December 9, 2016
Friday Facts: December 9, 2016
It’s Friday! Events Did you attend our 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award on November 11? Click here to view photographs from the event! December 13: Limited government […]
December 5, 2016
The Status of Civil Asset Forfeiture State Laws and Other Criminal Justice Reform Measures
By Ross Coker With the tumultuous results of the general election, one issue that should not be pushed to the back is the reform of civil asset forfeiture laws to curb […]
December 2, 2016
Friday Facts: December 2, 2016
It’s Friday! Events Did you attend our 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award on November 11? Click here to view photographs from the event! December 8: The deadline is […]
November 18, 2016
Friday Facts: November 18, 2016
It’s Friday! Events December 8: Only 40 percent of voters supported the Opportunity School District proposal for Georgia’s chronically failing schools. Still, 68,000 children attend those failing schools. What next […]
November 11, 2016
Friday Facts: November 11, 2016
It’s Friday! It’s HERE! It’s Veterans Day, and the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award takes place tonight at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The Keynote […]
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