January 17, 2025 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 17, 2025
How can school board members serve their fundamental purpose, and how can citizens hold them accountable?
Topic: Food and Drug Administration
September 6, 2024 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 6, 2024
States should take charge of their own policies, fostering innovation and better results.
September 15, 2022
Addressing Georgia’s Healthcare Disparities: The Benefits of Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
One possible solution for Georgia's growing disparity in healthcare access is allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
January 28, 2022 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: January 28, 2022
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Charles de Montesquieu “How strangely will the […]
December 31, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: December 31, 2021
In celebration of the Foundation's 30th anniversary in 2021, the Friday Facts included "a trip down Memory Lane," with photographs, news clips and articles thro
November 11, 2021 • Foundation News
Stepping away for a while…
I still remember the voicemail, four years later: I have some bad news. You need surgery.
October 15, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: October 15, 2021
From privatization to public-private partnerships to express toll lanes, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has never shied away from market-based proposals t
September 3, 2021 • Friday Facts
Friday Facts: September 03, 2021
In less than two weeks, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary with a September 16 event at the Georgia Aquarium.
April 26, 2021 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: April 26, 2021
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. In February 2021, Scott W. Atlas of the Hoover Institution spoke at a Hillsdale College event. Here’s […]
April 20, 2021 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: April 19, 2021
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. Cat Stevens first sang, “The First Cut is the Deepest.” But last week’s second COVID-19 vaccination suggested […]
March 22, 2021 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: March 22, 2021
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. Calling the shots: The COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are made with messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, […]
March 8, 2021
Checking Up On Health: March 8, 2021
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. When I was young, a primary goal of mothers in my community back in South Africa […]
February 26, 2021
Friday Facts: February 26, 2021
It’s Friday! Memory Lane: Zell Miller, who was governor of Georgia before becoming U.S. senator for Georgia, died March 23, 2018, at age 86. His birthday would have been February […]
January 11, 2021 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: January 11, 2021
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. Mutating virus: The first case of the U.K. coronavirus variant has been reported in Georgia, an […]
November 30, 2020 • Blog
Checking Up On Health: November 30, 2020
Medical Monday: A weekly post of healthcare- and technology-related policy news, views and commentaries. Many Thanksgiving family gatherings were canceled because of COVID-19. Many relatives avoided gatherings to minimize the […]
May 22, 2020
Friday Facts: May 22, 2020
It’s Friday! This is Week 10 of the Friday Facts’ focus on the coronavirus pandemic across the nation and in Georgia. View previous editions here. View the Foundation’s near-term proposals […]
May 4, 2020 • Blog
On COVID-19, Don’t Let the Perfect be the Enemy of the Good
This commentary by Dr. Gary Voccio, Director of Public Health for Northwest Georgia, was published May 3 in Hometown Headlines of Greater Rome and is excerpted with permission. By Dr. […]
April 9, 2020
Friday Facts: April 10, 2020
It’s Friday! We’re sending out this week’s Friday Facts one day early, in acknowledgment of the Easter Holiday Weekend beginning tomorrow with Good Friday. This is the fourth Friday Facts […]
March 27, 2020
Friday Facts: March 27, 2020
It’s Friday! This is the second Friday Facts edition to focus on the coronavirus pandemic gripping the nation and Georgia, and the innovative approaches to reduce its impact. View the […]
August 2, 2019
Friday Facts: August 2, 2019
It’s Friday! Events August 27: “Election Integrity: Facts, Fraud and Fiction” is the Foundation’s August noon Policy Briefing Luncheon at the Georgian Club. The speaker is Hans von Spakovsky, Senior […]
September 21, 2018
Friday Facts: September 21, 2018
It’s Friday! Subscribe to the Friday Facts here. Support the Foundation and its mission here. Quotes of note “Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the […]
August 24, 2018
Friday Facts: August 24, 2018
It’s Friday! September 7: The 2018 Georgia Legislative Policy Forum is a daylong conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel on Friday, September 7, featuring an exciting lineup of experts […]
June 1, 2018
Friday Facts: June 1, 2018
It’s Friday! Quotes of note “People who believe themselves above something, or entitled to something more because of past achievements, will find that new opportunities slip away.” – Tyler Bonin, […]
January 5, 2018
Technology Can Trump Tough Love
Sometimes, efforts to legislate and regulate turn ordinary Americans into lawbreakers or foundering pariahs. By Benita M. Dodd “It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass […]
December 29, 2017
Friday Facts: December 29, 2017
It’s Friday! It’s the FINAL Friday of the year. It’s the FINAL Georgia Public Policy Foundation Friday Facts of 2017. And, it’s the FINAL time you’ll see Kelly McCutchen sign […]
September 8, 2017
Friday Facts: September 8, 2017
It’s Friday! On a personal note Hurricane Irma’s path remains uncertain, but residents in Florida, Georgia and the Southeast coast are evacuating or bracing for its impact. Our thoughts and […]
July 14, 2017
Friday Facts: July 14, 2017
It’s Friday! Georgians in high places: Our congratulations to Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, former board member and board chair of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, on her appointment as head of […]
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 […]
August 26, 2016
Friday Facts: August 26, 2016
August 26, 2016 It’s Friday! MARK YOUR CALENDAR! The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Freedom Award (honoring a notable Georgian) takes place November 11, 2016, at […]
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