June 28, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: June 28, 2024
This week, the Georgia Senate’s Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence convened to discuss the future of AI in Georgia.
Topic: European Union
July 26, 2023 • Commentary
We must avoid the drift toward the European way
The more regulations we inject into the economy for stability or fairness, the more we drift toward the European way. Let's be cautious about this path.
December 3, 2021 • Commentary
Government’s Best Industrial Policy: Remove Barriers
Can American companies compete? Lawmakers of all stripes are asking this question today in response to growing Chinese economic and military power. What’s more,
November 16, 2020 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: November 16, 2020
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. You can expect a lot of pushback as COVID-19 numbers climb around the nation. Before you […]
March 6, 2020
Friday Facts: March 6, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “It’s fashionable for Democrats – and, if polls are to be believed, many Republicans too – to believe that something must be done about the […]
February 28, 2020
Friday Facts: February 28, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Overall, the evidence indicates that occupational licensing limits workers’ ability to enter professions or move to new areas with greater opportunity.” – Council of Economic […]
February 21, 2020
Friday Facts: February 21, 2020
It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” – Thomas Jefferson “I would rather a dollar be in your pocket […]
February 14, 2020
Friday Facts: February 14, 2020
It’s Friday! Events Mark your calendars: March 18: “Brexit: The Good, the Bad and the Messy,” a noon Policy Briefing Luncheon focusing on the United Kingdom at the end of […]
January 31, 2020
Friday Facts: January 31, 2020
It’s Friday! About 300 friends and supporters joined us Tuesday night at the Fabulous Fox in Atlanta for the Foundation’s 29th Anniversary Celebration and Freedom Award Dinner. The keynote speaker […]
April 19, 2019
Climate Change Agreements: Solutions in Search of a Problem
Earth Day arrives again on April 22, and along with it the also-predictable heated rhetoric by climate change alarmists who bolster their claims with articles and opinions and state, “Facts […]
November 17, 2017
Friday Facts: November 17, 2017
It’s Friday! We’re saddened to share with you the news of the passing of Dr. Michael H. Mescon, the 2016 recipient of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s prestigious Freedom Award […]
May 19, 2017
Friday Facts: May 19, 2017
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The biggest problem with alarmist claims, however, isn’t the repeated falsehoods and false prophecies. No, the greatest damage is the way ‘addressing climate change’ has […]
July 1, 2016
Friday Facts: July 1, 2016
July 1, 2016 It’s Friday! Then and Now: In 1991, when the Georgia Public Policy Foundation was established, U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the only Republican among Georgia’s 10 Congressmen […]
July 22, 2015
Dodd-Frank’s Dire Legacy: Durbin Amendment
Poor bank customers have been hit hard, with a million people forced out of the banking system as a result of increased fees. By Iain Murray This week was the […]
February 7, 2014
Friday Facts: February 7, 2014
It’s Friday! Events February 26: Tired of Washington’s out-of-control spending? The Foundation’s February 26 Leadership Breakfast focuses on the “The Case for the Compact for a Balanced Budget,” keynoted by Nick […]
February 4, 2014
Checking Up On Health: February 4, 2014
Health News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Icejam 2014 brought metro Atlanta – and my Checking Up on Health roundup – to a standstill on January 28. I […]
February 4, 2014
Georgia Dodges a Renewable Energy Bullet
Robert Bryce, senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes in The Wall Street Journal of February 2, 2014, that for years, greens and many on the political left have insisted that […]
February 4, 2014
Joel Kotkin: America’s Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?
By Joel Kotkin The stock market is high, real estate prices have resurged, even the unemployment rate is dropping, yet Americans still feel pretty down about the future. A survey released […]
November 5, 2013
Checking Up On Health: November 5: 2013
Health Policy News and Views Compiled By Benita M. Dodd Yes, but …I: Ever the optimist, Chuck Lauer, former publisher of Modern Healthcare, has a list of things to remember […]
September 10, 2013
Checking Up On Health: September 10, 2013
Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Docs and their apps: The majority (51 percent) of physicians who own smartphones now use clinical apps in their daily […]
July 23, 2013
Checking Up On Health: July 23, 2013
Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Even Dems are abandoning ship: The landmark health-reform law passed in 2010 has never been very popular and always highly […]
April 30, 2013
Checking Up On Health: April 30, 2013
Health Policy News and Views Compiled by Benita M. Dodd Hospital care spending: Georgia is second only to Utah in a ranking of the states with the lowest hospital care […]
March 8, 2013
Friday Facts: March 8, 2013
It’s Friday! Events March 19: There’s just one week left to register for, “Morality and The Marketplace,” a Foundation Leadership Breakfast with keynote speaker Yaron Brook, executive director of the […]
March 11, 2011
Energy Solutions in Pursuit of a Problem
By Benita M. Dodd Georgians are nervously watching petroleum prices climb amid ongoing unrest in oil producer Libya. Under the Gold Dome, legislators are again subjected to the perennial push […]
April 28, 2006
No Way to Handle a Fuel Crisis
By Benita M. Dodd You don’t have to have your ear to the tracks to hear the hullabaloo blaming “big oil” and Americans’ “addiction” to foreign oil for alarmingly high […]