February 22, 2008
Show Us the Money
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 […]
Topic: Georgia
February 8, 2008
Commentary: End the Education Numbers game: Let Funding Follow Students
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 18, 2008
Transportation: ‘Think like the People Coming up Behind Us Might’
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
Rail’s No Way In or To San Jose
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 7, 2007
Shining Some Light on State Spending
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
Missing From the Tax Debate: Spending
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 4, 2007
Land Use Principles for Georgia
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
Wising Up to Georgia’s Water Woes
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 […]
September 14, 2007
The Monkey Trap in Transportation Policy
By Benita M. Dodd A once-in-a-blue-moon event occurred recently at a committee meeting of Georgia’s State Transportation Board. During an update on projects in the state’s various congressional districts, the […]
September 7, 2007
Tear Down This Wall
By Ronald E. Bachman Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has announced a noble plan to reach 30,000 of the state’s uninsured; Lieutenant Governor Casey has a good plan to reach others. […]
August 17, 2007
A Prescription for Grady
By Bill Loughrey Grady Memorial Hospital is a vital community asset used by residents throughout metropolitan Atlanta, a safety-net hospital for hundreds of thousands of uninsured Georgians that admits tens […]
July 13, 2007
Muni Wi-Fi: No Wires, Plenty of Strings for Taxpayers
By Chris Leonard Why are people carrying their laptop computers into parks and coffee shops? To finalize a presentation for work? To catch up on e-mail? Well, these days it’s […]
June 29, 2007
Eminent Domain Protection’s No Done Deal
By Jason Pye This month marks the second anniversary of the infamous Kelo v. New London decision, a case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the taking of private […]
June 22, 2007
Water: Balloons, Guns, Slides in Policy
By Benita M. Dodd Don’t like the drought-related watering restrictions in your community? Outraged enough to rat out neighbors who violate watering rules? The state’s water “wars” could get worse: […]
June 15, 2007
State’s Teacher of the Year Gets ‘Brain Juice’ Flowing at Marietta School
By Dr. Holly Robinson In the same week recently, the city of Marietta’s Sawyer Road Elementary School had its charter approved to become an International Baccalaureate (IB) conversion charter school […]
June 8, 2007
Reforming SCHIP: Using Premium Assistance to Expand Coverage
By Nina Owcharenko The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), jointly financed by the federal and state governments but administered by the states, should focus on transitioning eligible lower-income children into […]
May 4, 2007
Border Security is First Step in Halting Illegal Immigration
By Senator Johnny Isakson When I was running for Senate in 2004, illegal immigration was second only to the war on terror on the list of issues folks asked me […]
March 9, 2007
What Georgia Should Do About Certificate of Need
By Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald Good medical coverage is affected by three components: cost, quality and availability. The true purpose of government in assuring that Georgians have good medical care is […]
March 8, 2007
‘Hire’ education: A vocational model succeeds
Published Thursday, March 08, 2007 By Eric Wearne (CNN) — Have you ever used what you learned in high school to get a job? Ask the graduates of Central Educational […]
February 23, 2007
Video Franchising and the Costly Lesson of Branch Banking
By Kelly McCutchen Tired of slow downloads, limited access to broadband, high prices or poor service? You should be concerned. Georgia could easily lose out on billions of dollars of […]
February 16, 2007
Commentary: Advancing Student Achievement in Georgia
By Casey Cagle Only when we design education around the individual needs of children will we achieve excellence. I have visited several schools throughout the state this session to share […]
February 9, 2007
How Georgia Can Lower the State’s Uninsured by 500,000
By Ronald E. Bachman Governor Perdue said at the opening of the 2007 session, “Keep the main thing the main thing.” The “main things” for 2007 were listed as jobs, […]
January 19, 2007
Georgia Charter Schools: Engines of Educational Improvement
By Andrew Broy Georgia’s charter schools are outperforming traditional schools and are serving a more diverse and economically disadvantaged population. Theses are the conclusions of the Georgia Department of Education’s […]
January 12, 2007
Scary Truth Amid Government Accountability
By Benita M. Dodd and Geoffrey Segal If ever there was a moment of unvarnished political pass-the-buck, it came during Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s annual State of the City address […]
January 5, 2007
Laying the groundwork for major fiscal reform
By Kelly McCutchen With more than a half-billion-dollar budget surplus and a booming stock market, Georgia’s economic future looks bright. Of course, things looked bright in the late 1990s, too. […]
November 10, 2006
No Time to Detour from Viable Transportation Solutions
By Benita M. Dodd Traffic congestion in metro Atlanta, where half the vehicle miles traveled in Georgia are concentrated, is frequently blamed on land use patterns in a region derided […]
October 27, 2006
How to Improve Health and Lower Health Care Costs in Georgia
By James Frogue Are Georgians getting measurably healthier? Is this progress being made in a manner that is fiscally sustainable? These are the first and second questions that we must […]
October 13, 2006
Government interference sends the wrong signal on broadband
By Kelly McCutchen Telecommuting, telemedicine, virtual schools and other high tech advances hold great promise for a large, rural state like Georgia, but roadblocks to investment will make progress much like […]
October 12, 2006
Georgia State and Local Finances
The objective of this report is to inform policy-makers and citizens on government finances, revenues and expenditures in the state. This report focuses on Georgia’s combined state and local finances […]
September 29, 2006
Base Tax Reform on Principles, Not Interests
By Kelly McCutchen State and local governments operate in a cycle of feast or famine. With projections of surging tax revenues for Georgia after one of the toughest downturns in […]
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