September 25, 2008
By Kirk McGhee The Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) recently announced its intention to apply a new tax on private health insurance. This proposed tax could potentially increase the cost […]
September 19, 2008
By Benita M. Dodd For any Georgians still wondering about the need to see what government is up to with their tax dollars, it’s highlighted by the most recent example: […]
August 22, 2008
By Brad Alexander Many public sector managers rank downsizing and dismissing government workers somewhere between a toxic waste spill and a nuclear apocalypse on the undesirability scale. Recent news coverage […]
July 28, 2008
By Steve Stancil Since its creation in 2003, the Commission for a New Georgia has brought fresh eyes and ideas to ways government can manage assets and operations to increase […]
July 25, 2008
By Chick Krautler Today, Lake Lanier is more than 13 feet below its full pool and nearly 10 feet lower than it was this time last year. The state climatologist […]
July 11, 2008
By Brant D. Keller, Ph.D.In the 2008 legislative session, four years after the passage of HB 237, the “Comprehensive Statewide Water Management Planning Act,” state lawmakers approved the framework for […]
June 20, 2008
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 […]
May 7, 2008
By Kelly McCutchen Georgia became a national leader in health care reform this week after Governor Sonny Perdue signed two bills into law at the Atlanta Medical Center. This practical legislation addresses some […]
May 2, 2008
By James H. Orr Jr. Will massive, endless subsidies become a way of life for Georgians? Apparently so, if our policy-makers listen to the proponents of commuter rail line and […]
April 18, 2008
By Kelly McCutchen Those who watched this year’s legislative session as they would a hockey game – waiting for the fight – were not disappointed. Going in, the focus was […]
April 18, 2008
By Benita M. Dodd Internet-savvy bank customers in Georgia can go online and check and balance their accounts from the comfort of their home, even at 2 in the morning. […]
March 28, 2008
By E. Frank Stephenson Good news for Georgia taxpayers: It is looking increasingly likely that the 2008 General Assembly session will result in a significant tax cut. What remains less […]
March 21, 2008
By Benita M. Dodd Sunshine Week, the effort to promote open government, is celebrated nationally this year from March 16-22. But the campaign launched (appropriately) in the Sunshine State in […]
March 17, 2008
By Greg Scandlen Consumer Driven Health Plans have been around for about five years now. They began in June 2002, when the Internal Revenue Service released its first guidance on […]
March 14, 2008
By Andrew Broy Georgia’s 71 charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools and are serving a more diverse and economically disadvantaged population, according to the Georgia Department of Education’s most […]
March 7, 2008
By Harold Brown Our culture makes the simplest problems complex and the simplest solutions expensive. None seem simpler than the cause of obesity and its cure, but nutritionists, psychologists, government […]
February 22, 2008
By Kelly McCutchen “We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man […]
February 15, 2008
By Benita M. Dodd How and how much are far from concurrence, but Georgians agree that what transportation needs most is funding. Sifting through the myriad transportation proposals, however, reveals […]
February 8, 2008
By Kelly McCutchen “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote in his classic work, “Animal Farm.” That was fiction. But it’s a […]
January 25, 2008
By Ronald E. Bachman An unprecedented collaboration of associations representing hospitals, physicians, insurers and sales agents, convened in late 2007 with a goal of developing solutions for the estimated 1.7 […]
January 18, 2008
By Vance Smith (Excerpted from remarks by Georgia Rep. Vance Smith (R-Pine Mountain), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, at a Georgia Public Policy Foundation Policy Briefing Luncheon on transportation.) […]
January 11, 2008
San Jose’s Valley Transit Authority couldn’t have shown the downside of light rail at a more inopportune moment. By Benita M. Dodd For those who love to watch the passing […]
December 14, 2007
By John C. Goodman David Himmelstein and his wife Steffie Woolhandler are associate professors at Harvard Medical School. Together they are a one-couple team, promoting Canadian national health insurance in […]
December 7, 2007
By Kelly McCutchen “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever […]
November 27, 2007
By Kelly McCutchen Like love and marriage, tax and spending go together like the proverbial horse and carriage. Absent spending controls, any major “reform” proposal in Georgia’s tax code – […]
November 9, 2007
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
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 […]
November 2, 2007
By Benita M. Dodd and Harold Brown “It is remarkable how many political ‘solutions’ today are dealing with problems created by previous political ‘solutions’,” conservative commentator Thomas Sowell wrote recently […]
October 25, 2007
By Ronald E. Bachman There is much talk about the number of Georgians who would like to purchase health insurance but cannot afford it. There is less talk about Georgians […]
October 19, 2007
By Randal O’Toole California is a garden of Eden, A paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot If you ain’t […]
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