May 18, 2012
License to Kill Business
By Benita M. Dodd From a historic building on the banks of the Etowah River in Rome, Ga., Ed Watters and his co-workers design elaborate gardens and manage a successful […]
Topic: Georgia
May 16, 2012
Medicaid Dominated when Deal Advisors Took Questions
By Mike Klein Medicaid is a beast. About one-in-five Georgians receives Medicaid health care. That is 1.7 million people. Fifty-nine percent of statewide births are Medicaid babies. Another couple hundred […]
May 15, 2012
Checking Up on Health
Health Policy Briefs: Posted May 15 Compiled by Benita Dodd Water, water everywhere, but …: According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 780 million people still lacked safe drinking […]
May 14, 2012
Does School Choice Financially Impact School Districts?
By Mike Klein This summer and fall you will repeatedly hear that approving a charter schools constitutional amendment would steal resources from traditional Georgia public schools. The idea is that […]
May 9, 2012
Task Force Should Focus on Digital Learning Ideas Marketplace
By Eric Wearne Recently Governor Nathan Deal announced a task force to “recommend ways to improve student achievement through the creation of robust digital learning environments, which may include the […]
May 7, 2012
Reed: What We Need is More STEAM in Our Classrooms
By Mike Klein Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed thinks our classrooms need more hot air. “We actually need STEAM – science, technology, engineering, arts and math,” Reed told an “Education Nation” […]
May 4, 2012
Friday Facts: May 4, 2012
It’s Friday! Events – May 23: Ahead of Georgia’s July 31 regional referendum on a penny transportation sales tax, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation hosts a Leadership Breakfast at 8 a.m. […]
May 3, 2012
Foundation Unveils Transportation Study at May 23 Leadership Breakfast
Atlanta — Ahead of Georgia’s July 31 regional referendum on a penny transportation sales tax, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation will host “Getting Georgia Going,” a Leadership Breakfast at 8 […]
May 3, 2012
Governor Deal: “Parents Are The Ultimate Local Control”
By Mike Klein Governor Nathan Deal traveled to Cherokee County on Thursday morning to deliver a message about charter schools. “Parents quite frankly are the ultimate local control,” the Governor […]
May 2, 2012
Cherokee Charter: The Perfect Place to Sign House Bill 797
By Mike Klein Cherokee Charter Academy almost never happened. Last spring it seemed possible – maybe even probable — that Cherokee Charter would never open because of a state Supreme […]
May 2, 2012
Who’s the Executive in Charge of Criminal Justice Reform?
By Mike Klein Governor Nathan Deal signed criminal justice reform legislation Wednesday, triggering the most aggressive rebranding of the state’s approach to criminal perpetrators in several decades. But one question […]
April 27, 2012
Will Georgia Avoid Last Year’s Farm Labor Shortage Fiasco?
By Mike Klein This summer the U.S. Supreme Court will decide what authority if any states have to determine immigration policies within their borders. This year the Georgia agriculture industry […]
April 27, 2012
Friday Facts: April 27th, 2012
It’s Friday! Events – May 23: Ahead of Georgia’s July 31 regional referendum on a penny transportation sales tax, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation hosts a Leadership Breakfast at 8 a.m. on […]
April 27, 2012
Don’t Hide Energy Innovation Under a Bushel
By Benita Dodd It’s easy being green these days for environmental activists – green with envy. The darnedest thing has happened in the energy arena, something that this Foundation frequently […]
April 20, 2012
Lack of Venture Capital Means Lost Jobs, Lost Opportunity
By Mike Klein When Advanced Catheter Therapies announced a new technology patent in January, the dateline was Chattanooga, Tenn. The press release noted, “The Company recently announced a name change […]
April 20, 2012
Friday Facts: April 20th, 2012
It’s Friday! Events – Tuesday is the deadline to register for ”Choice Matters: Expanding Educational Opportunity,” a Foundation Leadership Breakfast at Cobb County’s Georgian Club featuring two legislators at the forefront of Georgia […]
April 19, 2012
Magic Johnson’s Partnership with Provost Academy Georgia
By Mike Klein Magic Johnson’s parents never earned high school diplomas. However, they made it clear to all ten children that failure to graduate from high school was not an […]
April 17, 2012
Checking Up on Health
Health Policy Briefs: April 17, 2012 Compiled by Benita Dodd Show me the money: Georgia ranks 11th out of the top 20 states that have received funds distributed across the […]
April 17, 2012
Register Now for April 26 Foundation Event, ‘Choice Matters: Expanding Educational Opportunity’
Atlanta – If you haven’t yet registered, there’s just one week left to sign up for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s Leadership Breakfast on Thursday, April 26. The event features […]
April 16, 2012
Another View: Coordinated Action on Tax System Vital
(This article was published in the Sunday April 15 Atlanta Journal-Constitution) By Mike Klein This year, Georgia legislators took down some barriers in tax, pension and criminal justice reform but […]
April 16, 2012
Transportation Tax: About Mobility or About Money?
By Benita Dodd The “Untie Atlanta” commercials on radio and TV are nothing if not clever. Frustrated commuters can relate to the visual onslaught on TV of roads tangled in […]
April 14, 2012
A Little White House Vision for America’s Wounded Warriors
By Mike Klein The Little White House in Warm Springs is a place where time stands still. This was the Georgia home visited by Franklin Delano Roosevelt before and during […]
April 13, 2012
Friday Facts: April 13th, 2012
It’s Friday! Quotes of note – “Government has an important role in helping develop a country’s economic foundation. But the critical test is whether government is genuinely working to […]
April 11, 2012
The Serious Challenge to Georgia’s Low-Tax Economic Strategy
By Mike Klein Georgia built its economic strategy over the past couple decades around being a good place to raise a family with low taxes and a business friendly environment. […]
April 10, 2012
Georgia Will Report 5-Year H.S. Graduation Rate for 2012 Class
By Mike Klein Georgia’s high school graduation rate could improve next year because the state will report the number of students who complete graduation requirements within five years instead of […]
April 10, 2012
Checking Up on Health
Health Policy Briefs: April 10, 2012 Compiled by Benita Dodd Empaneling bad ideas: Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey, a physician and the chairman of the House Republican Doctors Caucus, writes in […]
April 9, 2012
When Reform is not Enough, Change How the Game is Played
By Eric Wearne Eric Wearne, Senior Fellow, Georgia Public Policy Foundation Harvard University Professor Clayton M. Christensen argues in his book Disrupting Class and elsewhere that the best and most long-lasting […]
April 4, 2012
Tax Freedom Day — The Feeling of Not So Much Freedom
By Mike Klein There is this idea out there that the country has a tax code. Actually, it has a tax obstacle course. It is almost impossible to decipher the […]
April 4, 2012
Register Now for ‘Choice Matters: Expanding Educational Opportunity,’ April 26 Foundation Leadership Breakfast
Atlanta – Have you registered yet? The Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s next Leadership Breakfast, at 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 26, features two legislators at the forefront of the bipartisan […]
April 4, 2012
EPA’s Coal Wars Could Sink America’s Economy
By James H. Rust While campaigning in San Francisco during the Democratic Party primaries in January 2008, presidential candidate Obama told The San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, “So if somebody wants […]
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